In development
Sound Effects
Lessons that sound alive.
How do you teach?
Younger learners drift when nothing marks the moments that matter. Sound Effects, in development, will let you play a chime, applause or a timer bell for everyone in the Space, with you in control of the volume.
Your young student’s attention drifts, and a right answer passes without a cheer. Soon you’ll play applause or a chime on cue, with the volume in your hands.
Marking a transition for twenty students on video is hard. Soon you’ll play a chime to start an activity or a bell when time is up, for everyone at once.
A bell when exercise time is up keeps the group on schedule. Sound Effects, in development, will play chimes and bells for everyone.
A chime through the room’s speakers starts an activity, and a bell ends it. Sound Effects, in development, will put them in your Space, with the volume in your hands.
A bell when time is up brings the room back together. Sound Effects, in development, will play from your Space on cue.
Your child will hear a round of applause when they get it right, and a chime when it’s time to start.
Free for 2 weeks on any paid plan. No credit card required.
What it solves
- Students who don’t want to be there
- Effort that goes unnoticed
Helps you
Teach better
Part of
Coming soon
The problem
Effort that goes unnoticed
Younger learners respond to sound, but online lessons are quiet. Wins pass unmarked, and transitions blur.
The usual way
Tutors clap on camera or play sounds from another app through screen share.
How Pencil Spaces solves it
Younger learners respond to sound: a round of applause for a right answer, a chime to start an activity, a bell when time is up. Sound Effects will let tutors play these for everyone in the Space, with the tutor in control of the volume and able to mute them all. They pair with Celebrations and with timers. In development.
What changes
More energy and attention in live lessons, especially with young learners.
What we’re building
- Applause, chimes and more, on cue
- A bell when a timer runs out
- Tutor controls the volume, or mutes all
- Pairs with celebrations for every win
What it looks like
In practice
A student gets a hard one right, and his tutor plays a round of applause. Later a timer runs out with a bell, and the tutor mutes all sounds for quiet practice.
In a 1:1 lesson
Your young student beams when applause plays for her first correct answer.
In a group class
A chime starts the group activity, and a bell ends it for everyone.
In a virtual training
A bell sounds when the breakout exercise ends, and everyone returns on time.
In your classroom
Applause plays through the room’s speakers when the class solves the puzzle.
In the training room
A bell from the Space ends the exercise, and the room comes back together.
At home
Your son hears applause when he finishes his reading, and asks for one more page.
