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Language School Marketing Tips

Alex Asher — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0100

How to market your language school online

How to use the Virtual Classroom software

Dan O'Reilly — Sat, 04 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0100

YouTube tutorials on how to use the LearnCube Virtual Classroom

Don't hibernate during the corona-crisis, innovate

Alex Asher — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

It’s been possibly the craziest week in recent memory with the coronavirus spreading across the world, a pandemic pending and massive falls on the share market. Many students, teachers and school owners seem to be panicking and LearnCube wanted to help out where we can.

The first way, we …

How to teach online if your school has to close temporarily?

Alex Asher — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Like you, we’re watching the news of the coronavirus spread quickly across the globe and are concerned about it’s disruption on language schools who are particularly vulnerable.

What alarmed us were stories of schools feeling like they have to shut up shop rather than support their students (at …

What is an online whiteboard?

Alex Asher — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

An online whiteboard (or web whiteboard) allows a teacher and student(s) to interact on the same online whiteboard via a web page at the same time…from anywhere.

This tool is especially useful for online tutoring because the technology allows an online tutor to collaborate with a student in …

Checklist for selling online language courses B2B

Alex Asher — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Technavio last year valued the global corporate cloud-based English language learning market at over $1 billion and growing fast. This B2B segment is extremely attractive to online language schools because customers tend to stick longer, pay more and are easier to approach than individuals.

As a virtual classroom software company …

Virtual Classroom Update

Dan O'Reilly — Sun, 02 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000

New online whiteboard with dozens of new features to make teaching online even easier.

New to LearnCube Virtual classroom (July 2019 update)

Alex Asher — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0100

New to LearnCube Virtual classroom (July 2019 update)

Have you seen the latest LearnCube updates to the online whiteboard and virtual classroom?

LearnCube created our virtual classroom to improve the quality and access to education worldwide. That’s why every new feature aims to empower the teacher and the student …

What! Machines are outperforming humans on reading comprehension

Alex Asher — Tue, 14 May 2019 00:00:00 +0100

Why bother reading when you can get a robot to do it for you?

Holy cow! I'm not sure if I'm overselling this (yet) but the world of education may have just changed forever...

On March 30 of this year (2019), a Chinese AI company, iFLYTEK, has made an algorithm …

Build or buy your own virtual classroom software

Alex Asher — Wed, 04 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0100

We're approached by top language learning companies like Babbel.com that have wonderful core product and are wanting to add live online tutoring. The million dollar question is... Do you build your own software solution from scratch or take advantage of someone else's?

This article aims to help your decision …

Free Buyers Guide to Online School Software

Alex Asher — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Free Buyers Guide to Online School Software

Has your language school outgrown it’s old online school management system or are you just looking for a new software for your online school?

There are a number of key tips when it comes to choosing a platform that’s going to …

What is a Virtual Classroom?

Alex Asher — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000

A virtual classroom is an online learning environment that allows teachers and students to communicate, interact, collaborate, explain ideas.

A virtual classroom enables students to access quality teachers anywhere on the planet so long as they both have a reliable internet connection. This can break down most of the common …

How to become an online English teacher?

Alex Asher — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0100

Many tutors ask us "How do I become an online teacher?" Online teaching and tutoring is becoming exceptionally popular as the internet tears down traditional barriers preventing students from learning, especially in language learning. Now the distance between people is now determined, not by the country you live in but …

When Free is just too expensive

Alex Asher — Tue, 27 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0100

Free tools are great when you’re testing out teaching English online but when you have a growing team, a growing number of students or competitors on your heels, you need to step up and take your business to the next level.

A patchy system starts becomes too expensive very …

10 free tools to start your live online English classes

Alex Asher — Sun, 25 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0100

This article shows you how you can dip your toe in the online tutoring world for free before you embrace a professional solution. If your teaching less than 20 student online, you want to choose or patch together a system to deliver live online classes for teaching English.

Here are …

Trends transforming the business of teaching English

Alex Asher — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0100

What is happening? We have 1 billion students around the world wanting to learn English yet, the revenues and enrolment periods for many ESL schools is in decline…

Where in the world to teach live virtual classes online?

Alex Asher — Sat, 03 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0100

One of the important considerations of choosing where to teach live classes is timezones. You have to think about the time zones of your teachers, your students and your admin team.

1:1 Class Booking Flow (Student Perspective)

Aura Maria Serrano — Sat, 23 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0100

How students book 1:1 online classes (option 1)

Online Whiteboard API

Dan O'Reilly — Sat, 23 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0100

LearnCube's whiteboard can be integrated with other systems using our REST API.

School Admin Overview

Aura Maria Serrano — Sun, 10 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0100

School Dashboard.

Class Requests

Aura Maria Serrano — Sat, 09 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0100

How to add a requested class.

Students Records

Aura Maria Serrano — Sat, 09 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0100

View student records and account

Assigning a student status

Aura Maria Serrano — Sat, 09 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0100

Stay organised and simplify student administration usinf student statuses.

Student Types

Aura Maria Serrano — Sat, 09 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0100

How to manage online, offline students or create student leads.

Class Admin

Aura Maria Serrano — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0100

How to monitor attendance records for students and teachers.

Why we built a Virtual Classroom specifically for teaching online.

Dan O'Reilly — Mon, 02 May 2016 00:00:00 +0100

What are the benefits and advantages of using LearnCube's Virtual Classroom

Why online group classes result in better outcomes than 1:1 online tutoring.

Ruth Marston — Sun, 01 May 2016 00:00:00 +0100

Research indicates, small online group classes result in better academic outcomes than 1:1 online tutoring.

Is there a contract ?

Dan O'Reilly — Sat, 30 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0100

Summary: There is no minimum contract, you can cancel, upgrade or downgrade at anytime.

No, we don't lock you into a contract, you can cancel, upgrade or downgrade at anytime within 14 days notice.

How do student licenses work ?

Dan O'Reilly — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0100

Each plan includes a set number of student licenses, this is the number of "Active Students" registered on the platform. An "Active Student" is one who has logged into the platform within the last 30 days.

So for example, if over a period of time you have 1000 students signed …

What is the difference between the Enterprise Plan and Virtual School Pro?

Dan O'Reilly — Thu, 28 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0100

The Virtual School Pro provides everything you need to create your own online language school and includes the option to brand it as your own with your logo and colors.

The Enterprise Plan is a completely custom solution, we work with you to create a bespoke platform for your specific …

Can I use LearnCube to teach other subjects?

Dan O'Reilly — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0100

Yes, Teachers, Tutors and Schools are using LeanCube to teach a variety of subjects including, maths, medicine, law and more.

In the future we plan to release several versions of our Virtual Classroom with specific features for specialist subjects.

Can LearnCube be integrated with my existing website?

Dan O'Reilly — Mon, 25 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0100

Yes, we can integrating with your website or other systems, for a list of common integrations: Read More

Virtual Classroom Technical Specifications.

Dan O'Reilly — Fri, 04 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Status	Feature	Description	Limitations	Benefits
	HTML5	Built using HTML5 technology to work in any internet browser without the need to download software or plugins.	--	Better compatibility across devices including mobile devices, faster performance, less technical issues.
	WEBRTC	Leveraging technology built in to most internet browsers for live video.	Browser must …

Virtual Classroom Firewall Settings

Dan O'Reilly — Thu, 03 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Minimum Requirement: The minimum Requirement is that TCP port 443 is open. Some firewall/proxy rules only allow for SSL traffic over port 443. You will need to make sure that non-web traffic can also pass over this port.

Better Experience: In addition to the minimum requirements being met, we …

Interactive Whiteboard

Aura Maria Serrano — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Learn how to use the whiteboard.

Teach English Online

Ruth Marston — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000

What are the benefits of teaching English online?

LearnCube Account

Aura Maria Serrano — Tue, 16 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000

How to keep track of LearnCube Account and payment history.

Virtual Classroom API

Dan O'Reilly — Mon, 15 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000

LearnCube can be integrated with other systems using our REST API.

LearnCube’s Virtual Classroom Wins First Prize in International Competition

Dan O'Reilly — Sun, 24 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

We integrated with Wacoms's New Digital Ink technology WILL to add improved hand writing capabilities with any hardware device.

Considerations when teaching English Online

Ruth Marston — Sat, 05 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000

How LearnCube addresses common challenges when starting to teach English online .

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