italki Classroom Guidance for teachers

Introduction

italki Classroom is a video communication tool that is available to all italki students both on the italki website and the italki mobile app.

Check the video introduction of italki Classroom here.

The benefits of italki Classroom include:

1. Full-featured: File sharing and screen-sharing. 
2. Convenient: App download is not required on PC as italki Classroom is a built-in italki interface. italki Classroom can be accessed by clicking the “Enter Classroom” button on the lesson page.
3. Easy to use: Adding your students as friends is not required. italki Classroom will connect teachers and students automatically.
4. Fair: italki can track system record in case there is a dispute over a lesson problem, ie. absence and being late.

Supported browsers

• Google Chrome
• Mozilla Firefox
• Safari 13+ (including iPad)

How to use italki Classroom?

Note: Please close all unrelated programs on your computer, otherwise it might have an impact on italki Classroom.

1. Click on "ENTER CLASSROOM" which will take you to the welcome screen (see below). If this is your first time using the Classroom, your browser will prompt you to allow italki.com to access your camera and microphone.

This is to provide italki.com platform permission to access your camera and microphone to enter the italki Classroom. Your lesson content is private. italki does not have access to your video or audio content and we do not record video or audio of any part of a lesson in the italki Classroom.

Google Chrome - Allow camera + microphone:


Mozilla Firefox - Allow camera + microphone:

Safari - Allow camera + microphone:

 

2. When you enter the italki Classroom, you will see a countdown timer until the lesson begins.  

If you experience connection problems with italki Classroom, you can see the contact detail of another video platform the student uses by clicking the "Connection problems?" button on the right hand.

Note: Screen sharing currently only works on Google Chrome and Firefox.

How to allow screen sharing on your Mac for italki Classroom lessons?