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DESCRIPTION
Nualang (Wayside Publishing Learning Site) is a web-based language learning program. This site contains a variety of online ebooks with teacher guides and student assignments and games in French and Spanish.
TOOLS & FEATURES
Once a teacher creates a class, they can add a roster of students and manage each student’s activity on the site. This includes: tracking whether digital books have been completed, whether assignments have been completed, documenting acquired skills/knowledge, assigning performance ratings based on level of fluency in the target language, and assigning/documenting grades, uploading written/audio/video feedback to students.
For many titles, a student portfolio is included, which contains student self-assessment tools and also allows teachers to give their students written, audio or video feedback.
COST
To buy a Nualang license, please contact Purchasing.
DISTRICT USE: APPROVED WITH CAUTIONS
Nualang is approved for secondary (Grade 8-12) use in the Surrey School District. See privacy info below.
PRIVACY INFO
Teachers can and should set their classrooms and courses to Private at all times. This limits who can enter, what people can see and who can see comments, feedback, and progress reports.
Several of the functions on this site involve the use of audio recordings, video recordings or chatbot conversation transcripts that are saved on the platform. Teachers should use caution when asking students to use audio and/or audio/video recording features. Teachers should use caution when assigning activities, and actively avoid setting up conversations that include the sharing of personally identifiable information. (name, age, date of birth, home address, etc.). Since many of these conversations are recorded and saved, they represent a potentially significant privacy risk especially when paired with the student’s account information.
Teachers are reminded that recordings of students (audio or video) should be deleted as soon as they have been reviewed for assessment/feedback/grading.
