Glossary
Key terms and definitions used across the Speakly.PRO platform.
Key terms and definitions for the Speakly.PRO platform.
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| OrgAdmin | Organization Administrator — has all teacher capabilities plus school-wide management: user oversight, billing, and analytics. |
| CEFR Level | Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. A widely used proficiency scale: A1 (beginner) → C2 (mastery). |
| Term | Definition |
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| Course | A collection of lessons organized around a language learning curriculum. Has a title, target language, CEFR level, and category. |
| Public Course | A course marked as public by an organization admin. Visible to teachers from other organizations in read-only mode and available for copying into their own school. |
| Course Lesson | A lesson within a course — the blueprint from which student copies are created. |
| Lesson Copy | An individual student's copy of a course lesson, tracking their personal progress. |
| Lesson Type | Classification of lessons: Class lesson (synchronous live session), Exercise (practice activities), Homework (assignments), or Self-study (personal study material). |
| Self-study | Personal material a student buys from Marketplace or creates in My Library. |
| Group Individual Work | When homework or exercises are assigned to a student group, each student receives their own separate lesson copy and live session. The calendar aggregates these into a single item showing all participants with per-student status tracking. Unlike group class sessions (where everyone shares one session), group homework and exercises are completed independently. |
| Live Session | A real-time interactive class conducted between a teacher and students with video, audio, and screen sharing. |
| Enrollment | A student's registration in a course. Links a student to a course and tracks their overall progress. |
| Invite Code | A code generated by teachers that students enter to join a course directly. |
| Instant Lesson | A temporary lesson created on-the-fly during a live session. Instant lessons do not appear in the regular course lesson list and are tied to a specific session. |
| Demo Lesson | A publicly accessible sample lesson viewable without logging in. Showcases the platform's editor and exercise features, including interactive speaking demos when the lesson contains them. Demo recordings are test attempts and do not affect real course progress. Available at /demo/lessons. |
| Status | Meaning |
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| Added | Lesson created but not yet started by the student. |
| Started | Student has begun working on the lesson. Individual class lessons in this status can still be rescheduled or canceled by the student. |
| Passed | Student completed the lesson successfully. |
| Verified | Teacher reviewed and confirmed the lesson completion. |
| Canceled | Lesson was canceled. The teacher assigned to the lesson, an Org Admin, or — within the allowed window — the student can cancel it. |
| Status | Meaning |
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| Draft | Course is being created or edited — not yet visible to students. |
| Published | Course is live and available for student enrollment. |
| Status | Meaning |
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| Scheduled | Session is planned for a future time. |
| Active | Session is currently in progress. |
| Ended | Session has finished. |
| Canceled | Session was canceled. |
| Term | Definition |
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| Homework Verification | Teacher review and confirmation of submitted homework, with written feedback. |
| Term | Definition |
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| Sentence Builder | Exercise where students arrange words into correct sentence order. |
| Speech Recorder | Exercise where students record spoken responses for review. |
| Memory Game | Matching pair memory game where students find related items. |
| Word Scramble | Exercise where students unscramble letters to form correct words. |
| Category Sort | Exercise where students sort items into the correct categories. A teacher can allow the same item to be correct in more than one category. |
| Pronunciation Assessment | Short-target speaking drill where students listen, record, and receive phoneme-level feedback. A widget can contain several target slides. |
| Choose Answers | Exercise where students select all correct answers from a list of options. |
| Would You Rather | Discussion activity where students choose between two options and explain their reasoning. |
| Breathing Timer | Guided breathing exercise for classroom mindfulness breaks. |
| Roulette | Gamified spin wheel for random selection of topics, students, or prompts. |
| School Board | Interactive drawing canvas (Whiteboard) for diagrams, illustrations, and collaborative whiteboarding. |
| Term | Definition |
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| Vocabulary Practice (Cards Game) | Interactive flashcard game for reviewing and learning vocabulary. |
| Lemma | The base/dictionary form of a word (e.g., "run" for "running"). Words are grouped by their lemma, and synonyms are linked at the lemma level. |
| Vocabulary Status | Tracking state: Learning (actively studying), Learned (mastered), Skipped (not needed). |
| Vocabulary Capacity | Maximum number of words a student can add to their personal vocabulary collection, tracked separately per language. |
| Spaced Repetition | Learning technique that increases intervals between reviews as a word is mastered. |
| Term | Definition |
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| Token | Platform currency ($1 USD = 100 tokens). Used for paid learning and teaching features such as AI generation, assessment, and text-to-speech. |
| Currency Code | Organization-level setting (e.g., USD, EUR, PLN) that determines how monetary values are displayed throughout the platform. |
| Token Balance | Current credit amount available for spending. |
| Burn Projection | Forecast of when tokens will run out based on current spending rate. |
| Term | Definition |
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| Lex Editor | Rich content editor supporting 60+ content types, interactive exercises, media, and real-time collaboration. |
| AI Lesson Generation | Automated content creation using AI to draft lessons, exercises, and vocabulary lists — always reviewed by teachers. |
| Lesson Analysis | AI-powered analysis of a student's completed lesson. Examines answers across all exercises and produces a report with performance breakdown, error patterns, strengths/weaknesses, and follow-up recommendations. Costs 70 tokens (single) or 500 tokens (bulk, last 20 lessons). |
| Edit Permission Toggle | A teacher control available during individual live sessions that grants or revokes a student's ability to edit the shared lesson document in real time. Shown as a green pencil (can edit) or red pencil-off (view-only) icon on the student's avatar. |
| Collaboration | Real-time multi-user editing with live cursors, comments, and presence indicators. |
| Annotations | Comments and suggestions added to lesson content for collaborative review. |
| Game Widget | Interactive exercise element placed inside lessons (e.g., matching, fill-in-the-blank, sentence builder). |
| Lesson Blocks | A structured format for defining lesson layout and game widget settings. |
| Ask AI | In-editor AI assistant that helps teachers generate, rewrite, or improve content directly within a lesson. |
| Help Assistant | Documentation assistant that answers product questions and links to the relevant Speakly.PRO help pages. |
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| Branded Workspace | The view of Speakly.PRO that a user sees on their school's branded domain — same product, but scoped to one school and styled with that school's branding. |
| Organization Membership | A user's role inside one school: Student, Teacher, or OrgAdmin. One Speakly account can hold memberships in multiple schools at once. |
| Primary Domain | The public Speakly.PRO domain (speakly.pro). Hosts the Marketplace, Find a Teacher, and the cross-school view for users who belong to more than one school. |
| Tenant Domain | A school's branded domain — either a Speakly subdomain (e.g., myschool.speakly.pro) or a custom domain (e.g., lessons.myschool.edu). Users signed in on a tenant domain see only that school's data. |
| White Label | Paid add-on that lets a school run Speakly.PRO on its own branded domain with custom logo, colors, slogan, and support email. See White Label. |
| Term | Definition |
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| Engagement Tiers | Student activity classification: Highly Active, Active, Occasional, At Risk, or Churned. |
| Cohort Retention | Tracking what percentage of students from a joining month remain active over subsequent months. |
| Completion Rate | Percentage of course lessons a student has completed. |
| Homework Turnaround | Average time between homework submission and teacher feedback. |
| Cancellation Rate | Percentage of scheduled lessons that were canceled. |