What is Speakable?

Speakable is a cutting-edge platform designed to assist educators in leveraging the latest advancements in text-to-speech, speech-to-text, and artificial intelligence technologies. It provides an easy-to-use builder to create activities that can be assigned to students, automatically graded, and provide instant, actionable feedback.

Key Features

Advanced Auto-Grading

• Auto-Grading: Automatically grade multiple choice, free response, and spoken tasks, saving teachers valuable time.
• Rubric-Based Grading: Use custom rubrics or AI-generated rubrics for detailed and fair assessments.

AI-Powered Activity Creation

Easily generate engaging activities using AI, based on prompts or existing materials uploaded by teachers.

Instant Feedback

• Grammar Insights: Provide detailed feedback on grammatical errors in student responses.
• Proficiency Level Estimation: Estimate ACTFL or WIDA proficiency levels based on student performance.
• Suggested Responses: Generate model responses to help guide students.
• Rubric Feedback: Offer immediate feedback based on custom rubrics, helping students understand their performance.

Media-Rich Activities

Combine videos, images, text-to-speech, podcasts, and more with any student action type to create immersive learning experiences.

Analytics

• Progress Tracking: Track student, classroom, and organizational performance with detailed analytics.
• Assignment Results: Access results and grades easily, helping teachers make informed decisions.
• Student Reports: Generate reports that can be shared with parents to show student progress across assignments.

Collaboration Tools

• Spaces: Create collaborative spaces where educators can share and discuss activities.
• Global Library: Access thousands of activities created by educators worldwide.
• Organization Library: Use and contribute to a library of activities within your institution.

Integrations

• Content Integrations: Incorporate various media types to enhance learning activities, including videos, images, and text-to-speech.
• SSO (Single Sign-On): Simplify login processes for teachers and students, ensuring secure and easy access to the platform.
• LMS Integrations:
  • Roster Syncing: Automatically sync class rosters with platforms like Google Classroom, Canvas, Schoology, Blackboard, Moodle, and Brightspace.
  • Grade Passback: Save time by automatically updating grades in your LMS. Learn more.

Applications

• Speaking Practice and Assessment: Engage students in interactive speaking activities.
• Writing Practice and Assessment: Create and assign writing tasks with instant feedback.
• Reading and Listening Comprehension: Develop activities to test and improve comprehension skills.
• Proficiency Level Estimation: Use ACTFL or WIDA level estimation for accurate proficiency assessments.
• Progress Tracking: Monitor student progress over time with detailed analytics, including assignment results, classroom analytics, and organization-wide reports for administrators.

Saving Time

By using Speakable, teachers can save hundreds of hours on grading each year and provide their students with exponentially more feedback on speaking and writing activities. This not only enhances the learning process but also allows teachers to focus more on personalized instruction and less on administrative tasks.

Supporting Schools and Districts

For organizations, Speakable offers an Organization Plan that includes:

• Comprehensive access to all features for multiple teachers.
• Dedicated account management and shared curriculum planning.
• Organization-wide analytics and additional support services like live professional development and a dedicated school success manager.

Learn more about Speakable’s pricing and plans here. 

Data Privacy and Security

Speakable is committed to ensuring the safety and privacy of student data:

FERPA and COPPA Compliance: Fully adheres to federal regulations for student data protection.

State Privacy Compliance: Member of various state student privacy alliances, ensuring adherence to local laws.

Learn more about Speakable’s Data Privacy and Security in the Privacy Center. 

How to Get Started

Join Speakable today by exploring our library of thousands of activities created by fellow educators or create an account and start building from scratch. For more information and to get started, visit our homepage.

This updated article now includes the latest features and integrations, ensuring that it is aligned with the current offerings of Speakable. For more detailed information, you can refer to the Speakable Features and FAQ pages.