Solutions · English language teaching
English lessons online, from first words to fluency
Pencil Spaces helps ESL and EFL academies and English teachers run live lessons for learners of every age, across time zones. These are the problems academies, teachers, learners and parents run into, and how Pencil Spaces solves each one.
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Industry
Subjects and skills
Who
Academy leaders, English teachers, Learners, Parents
Problems mapped
22
Today
22 solved
Built for English language teaching
- Lessons across time zonesCalendar Sync · AvailableCalendar Sync puts lessons in Google Calendar and Outlook, with a Join link, and moves them when they change.
- Faces in view while you teachPinned & Pop-out Video · AvailablePop video out or pin it to the board, so faces stay visible while you present.
- Speaking practice in pairsBreakout Rooms · AvailableBreakout Rooms split the class into small rooms for focused work and bring everyone back in one click.
Academy leaders
- Matching students to tutors by handSolved today
- Availability lives in a dozen placesSolved today
- Families churn without warningSolved today
- Families see the vendor’s brand, not yoursSolved today
- Invoices don’t match lessons deliveredSolved today
- Coaches can’t give every tutor feedbackSolved today
- New tutors take too long to be readySolved today
- Finding a substitute in timeSolved today
English teachers
- Clashing calendars across programsSolved today
- Hours spent finding and making materialsSolved today
- Writing notes and reports by handSolved today
- Keeping parents updated takes timeSolved today
- Building rapport through a screenSolved today
- Quiet students, and the tutor talks mostSolved today
Learners
- Lessons clash with classes, sports or jobsSolved today
- Forgetting what was covered last timeSolved today
- Can’t see how far they’ve comeSolved today
- Learning in a second languageSolved today
- Afraid of being wrong in front of peersSolved today
Parents
- Renewing without evidence it’s workingSolved today
- Rescheduling around illness and holidaysSolved today
- “It was fine” is all they hearSolved today
Every problem we’ve mapped is on the problem map.
The features behind these fixes
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