Thursday, December 10, 2009

ETNL Language Lab Features -Language Lab System

Teacher Module
Technologically futuristic yet offering a simple user interface, the standalone teacher console of the language management software not only offers ease-of-operation but also a wide range of choices, which permits the instructor to pick and choose the most appropriate lesson individually or in format combinations as listed below:

.Text

.Audio

.Video

.Text plus Audio

.Text plus Video

The ETNL Language Lab© Version-3 supports a variety of audio/video formats and lessons can be incorporated using any of the following formats:

mpeg
.wmv
.asf
.dat
.wav
.wma
.mp3
.mkv
.mp4

During lesson creation in the language lab system, the teacher has to select a particular lesson from a group of study materials. A very interesting feature (Auto Search Method) in teacher console helps the teacher to create lessons as combination (i.e. Text File with Audio File, Text File with Video File.), the teacher has to select only one file which can be either a text file or an audio or video file, and if there exists a corresponding file with the same name it’ll be automatically added to that particular lesson.

Lessons created may be assigned as listed:

Individually
Group-wise
All students

Other features of the English language lab software include:
Real time lesson editing and reassigning is possible using lesson edit facility

Create five independent student groups
Conduct a text chat session among the students who belongs to each group
Teacher can butt-in and eavesdrop on any group at any time
Chat with a particular student in a group.
Control functions of the communication skills lab console include:
Individual two-way communication
Eavesdrop on the student microphone
One-way broadcasting facility to the whole class
Remote maximizing of student console
Remote log-off of a student
Screen-capture of student screen
Inbuilt voice recorder
Assign recorded file as a lesson
As an additional security measure, one of the three login options can be assigned to students as follows:
Anonymous login
Login with username only
Login with username and password

Note: ETNL Language Lab© Version 3.0 also offers webcam facility as an option on-request.

Student Module
This console of the language lab software is very private and extremely user-friendly and offers these main functions:

Easy-to-use and well-designed interface

Listen, repeat and compare unlimited times

Save repeated lessons for future reference

Inbuilt Word Web dictionary

Assigned exercises can be repeatedly rehearsed and practiced till perfect with student media player or text file viewer

Call teacher inconspicuously