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introducing somos
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peer-to-peer practice groups
chat channels
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teaching courses
your course materials are ready, students have signed up, let’s get teaching!
📺 running your weekly workshops
you’ll learn how to:
- access your workshop.
- share your screen.
- turn your camera on/off.
- turn your mic on/off.
- use the chat function.
check out this step-by step guide [coming soon]
📔 setting homework assignments
you’ll learn how to:
- add homework assignments to your course.
- see when a student has completed their homework.
check out this step-by step guide [coming soon]
🤝 peer-to-peer practice groups
you’ll learn how to:
- create practice groups for your students.
- split your students into groups of 4 to practice during the week.
- share conversation prompts + videos with your students in advance of their practice session.
check out this step-by step guide [coming soon]
💬 using your cohort’s chat channels
you’ll learn how to:
- chat/message with your students during the course.
- save your course chats and turn them into a document for future use.
check out this step-by step guide [coming soon]
🥳 completing your course!
you’ll learn how to:
- wrap up your course with a final workshop.
- issue digital completion certificates to your students.
- understand how the review/feedback system works at somos.
check out this step-by step guide [coming soon]
🤔 frequently asked questions
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- 4 weeks long
- set your own price (typically $25 to $100 per student)
- 12 to 40 students per cohort
- 1 teacher led workshop per week with the whole cohort
- 1 x homework assignment per week
- 1 x peer-to-peer practice group session per week in groups of 4 (no teacher)
- whatsapp style group for cohort (in-app) + teacher to interact in across the 4 weeks
- 1 x celebration session with whole cohort at the end of week 4
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- each week you'll be able to set a different topic focus
- the workshops will introduce the structure for the rest of the sessions
- you can set the homework assignments during workshops
- homework assignments act as prompts to encourage discussion in the practice groups!
- you'll be able to teach via the in-app video and voice rooms
- you'll also be able to share, upload and/or embed documents & course materials for your students in-app.
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- we recommend keeping courses to 4 weeks but ultimately it's a decision for you as the course creator.
- please feel free to contact us if you'd like support on pricing longer courses etc.
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- we think when you're just starting out to aim for around 3-3.5 hours a week:
- 1 hour live teaching
- 1 hour administration
- 1 hour answering questions/interacting with students via the internal chat.
- courses will (just like 1:1 lessons) require planning and structuring but this can of course be replicated once you have a format that works best for you.
- you should factor in an extra 45 mins to an hour at the end of week 4 to do a celebration session/wrap up with your students.
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- not right now! we’re looking for teachers who want to work with their own content.
- once we are out of beta, we will want to work closely with teachers to start providing you with business, marketing & teaching resources to support your growing business!
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- somos courses work best for students who are at least A2/B1 looking to use conversation practice to really improve their fluency.
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