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Great to hear, Lyle! Be sure to visit the Digital Tools area of our Help Docs area for tutorials: https://help.ellii.com/

We are currently working on a feedback feature for our open-ended question task type. It should be ready very soon! After that we'll work on adding a feedback feature for some of the other task types. Until this is ready, you would need to text or email your students with any feedback you have, though they will see their own results on their Student Dashboard.

I have been an ESL teacher since the 1980's and learned about your website when I started teaching at REEP (Arlington Education and Employment Program). Your website is by far one of the best I have ever used. I love the topics you choose and the detail you give to your lesson plans. I also love that you make your website very personal and that we know who the authors are! Thank you so much for allowing us to use your more advanced package rather than the standard one during this stressful time. How generous and kind of you. I have a question about commenting on students' work when they do a writing or take one of the quizzes? Is there anything through your website? Thank you.

You can now give student feedback on the open-ended question task type: https://ellii.com/blog/open-ended-questions More feedback tools are coming soon!

You can now give student feedback on the open-ended question task type: https://ellii.com/blog/open-ended-questions More feedback tools are coming soon!

It looks like you are already a member! To access all of the content, you'll just need to choose a subscription package.

Hi Mary. To start, you need to create a class and get your students set up. Here is a video demo on How to Create Classes and Invite Students: https://help.ellii.com/article/191-video-how-to-create-classes-and-invite-students

After that, you'll need to find content to send your students. Look for the digital icon. Here is a Help Doc on how to assign digital tasks: https://help.ellii.com/article/122-how-to-assign-digital-homework.

We hope this helps you get started! Best of luck!

Great! We're happy your teacher is using ESL Library!

Hello ESL library i am going to learn English

Some of our materials are only available as PDFs. We have 800+ lessons on our digital platform, and we add more each day.

We are currently working on a feedback feature for our open-ended question task type. It should be ready very soon! After that we'll work on adding a feedback feature for some of the other task types.

Thanks, Althea! Best of luck. Let us know if you have any questions!

Hello! So that happens when you invite a student and your student requests to join a class and you both accept each other. We are working on adding validation so you can't do that anymore. For now our devs are going to go into your account and clean it up. Sorry about that!

Here is a video tutorial for you! https://help.ellii.com/article/191-video-how-to-create-classes-and-invite-students
If you prefer a Help Doc, check this section: https://help.ellii.com/category/110-digital-tools

Thanks for watching!

Thanks for your encouragement! Best of luck!

Thanks for attending!

Hello! Thank you! We now have an FAQ for students and are planning on doing some videos and webinars too. Stay tuned! https://ellii.com/blog/student-faq

Yes, if you missed last week's webinars, you can sign up for the next one here: https://app.livestorm.co/esllibrary

Hello! So that happens when you invite a student and your student requests to join a class and you both accept each other. We are working on adding validation so you can't do that anymore. For now our devs are going to go into your account and clean it up. Sorry about that!

Thanks for your enthusiasm! Best of luck!

Hello! As a subscriber you are permitted to download the student PDF and email it to your students. We recommend using the digital versions where they exist as this is a better experience. However, not all of our lessons have a digital version yet so sometimes you will need to screenshare the PDF or email it (if you want them to have a copy). Thanks!

Thanks for your support and encouragement, Daltro!

You can register for the next webinar here: https://app.livestorm.co/esllibrary

Hi Jonathan, next week's webinars have just been posted. See you there!

We are very happy to hear this, John! Please let us know if you have any requests or concerns about our digital tools. We hope you and your students will enjoy learning with us this way!

Hi Tina, we are currently developing a series of grammar videos for our site. In the meantime, you'll find teaching tips on many grammar targets in the Grammar & Usage section of our blog: https://ellii.com/blog/categories/grammar-usage

You can also use the search (magnifying glass icon) on the top right corner of this page to search for a specific grammar target to see if we have a blog post about it. Hope that helps!

Thank you for watching and commenting, Pamela! Best of luck to you and your students.

Received and appreciated. Thank you so much for your support.

Hi there! Thanks for checking out our blog :)

Hello. You will need a teacher to invite you as a student. Then you can start doing ESL Library lessons.
Good luck with your English!

Hello, Blerina. This is a real challenge. Do your students have mobile phones? All of our digital tasks can be done on a mobile phone. Not all of our printables have been digitized yet, but we have 800+ lessons that are ready to use on mobile. I recommend coming to our next webinar to learn more about our digital tasks. (The PDFs are not editable for copyright reasons.)

Hello! An on-demand version of the webinar will be posted early next week. We are also doing the webinar a few more times this week, including this evening at 10pm CST if you want to register: https://app.livestorm.co/esllibrary

We are working towards a plan for integrating with learning platforms like Google Classroom, but we are not set up for this quite yet. What you can do is post a link to ellii.com/students on any platform you're using and then notify students that they have ESL Library homework to complete. After logging in, your students will see their homework on their ESL Library Student Dashboard.

Hi Laura,

It seems like some email accounts have been blocking the webinar emails from going through.

Go ahead and register for an upcoming webinar and then send us a quick email to hello@ellii.com to ask for your access code. We can get that out to you if you email us at least a few hours before the webinar you register for.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Hi Penne,

Our upcoming webinars and on-demand webinars are posted here: https://app.livestorm.co/esllibrary

If you see a webinar you'd like to attend, click on the drop-down menu and it will show the timezone (in your local timezone) of the event.

Note: Our on-demand webinars can be viewed at any time at your own convenience.

Hi. No they do not need the passcode again. They need to go to ellii.com/students and log in (yellow box). Then they enter the username and password they chose when they signed up with the code. This will take them to their Student Dashboard where they will see homework. They will always log in this way. There is an FAQ for students if you want to see the screenshots: https://ellii.com/blog/student-faq

That's fantastic news, John! We're so happy to hear this. You can change your avatar in your profile settings. Click on your name in the top right corner when you are logged in, and go to Edit Profile. Choose your adorable animal avatar of choice!

Hi Stephanie! Go to the lesson you assigned (e.g., search "Distracted Driving"and click on the lesson. Choose the Digital tab. Click on the Assign Tasks button. Edit the due date. Let us know if you have any problems.

Hi, Raul. We're so happy to hear this! Thanks for taking the time to write in and let us know how you're continuing to teach during this difficult time.

Excellent! Now go to the top navigation and click on My Classes. Choose your class. If there are results to see, you can click on them. Also, from My Classes you should see Pending Invitations. You can resend the invitation that your student was unable to use. Tell your student to check his/her spam folder if it's not there. Also, if your student sees a purple screen that says the invitation doesn't exist, they may have already signed up. Some students try to sign up again the second time they come to the site instead of logging in.

Here is an FAQ for your students: https://ellii.com/blog/student-faq

Here is an FAQ for you:
https://ellii.com/blog/faq-teachers

Hi Catherine.

I replied in your previous comment. If you are still struggling, please give us a call or send us an email on Monday morning using the contact form.

Thanks! ~ Tara

Hello, Tsering. You can go to the lesson (e.g., search for Distracted Driving) and click on Assign Tasks. Then cancel the assignment you want to cancel. To encourage your students to complete the tasks you would need to send a group email or use another messaging platform. ESL Library doesn't currently offer a messaging service with students. We do have this in the plans! A lot of teachers use Google Classroom. They put a note on Google Classroom that says something like this: "Remember to log in to your ESL Library account to do your homework: ellii.com/students. Your next lesson is due April 10."

I'll ask Amanda to contact you. Thanks!

Hi, Anoosh. You will set up 3 classes and assign them different materials. Here's a Help Doc on How to Create Classes: https://help.ellii.com/article/115-how-to-create-classes-on-esl-library-digital

We're so happy to hear that, Heather!

Hi Vimala. For most tasks they should be able to Try Again from their dashboard. For the Open-Ended Question type, they can't access the task again unless you reassign it. They will need to wait for your feedback and then they can view it. Ask them to log in at ellii.com/students to see their dashboard to start a task or try a task again.

That's fantastic, Gouri! Best of luck with your online teaching.

Hello, Pantea. It looks like you signed up as a teacher. Are you a student?

I will let our host Tammy know. Thanks!

Hi Lynda. Here is an answer from our FAQ: https://ellii.com/blog/faq-teachers
We are currently researching integration with platforms such as Google Classroom. At this time, we recommend adding the link to ellii.com/students on Google Classroom and letting students know (via Google Classroom or any messaging service you use with them) that you've added a new ESL Library assignment. Students will log in and see their homework on their own individual Student Dashboard.
We'll be working on integration tools this summer if not before. Thanks!

Thanks for your kind feedback, Meredith! We've come a long way since September. Here are our most recent updates in case you missed this post: https://ellii.com/blog/feature-updates-2020

Hi Vanessa! You would need to assign your class the task and then each student would need to log in and do it on their own devices. Depending how big your class is, it can work well (with a large class it may be too tricky to manage and you're probably better to stick with facilitating the task on your shared screen and asking for answers).

You can now use our Flashcard Player during your Zoom class: https://ellii.com/blog/flashcard-player

Hi Rina. At this time, you need a teacher to invite you to ESL Library. Then your teacher can assign the tasks.

Everyone who attends a webinar is emailed a copy of a similar session to the one they attended. For those who miss a webinar, they can either register for an upcoming webinar or view one of our on-demand webinars. The on-demand webinars are pre-recorded and can be viewed at your own convenience.

Here is the link to register for upcoming and on-demand webinars: https://app.livestorm.co/esllibrary

That's great to hear, Mariam. Have fun learning English online!

Hi Parvin, our customer relationship director, Ginny, will be in touch via email soon with the solution for you!

Hi Elizabeth. You can click on the due date in the Results table on an task you've assigned and it will take you to the Assign Tasks calendar. There you can edit the due date.

Hi Maggie and June,
You can delete duplicate students by going to My Classes and finding the students that you need to delete. We're currently working on a new sign-up method that should prevent a lot of duplicate accounts. Until then, please remind your existing students to "log in" rather than "sign up" after they create an account: https://ellii.com/blog/students-sign-up-log-in

Hi Felix. Yes, ESL Library is a paid subscription service for teachers. Here is the pricing information: https://ellii.com/pricing
Let us know if you have any questions. Thanks!

Hi Angela. Right now, you can do the tasks together in a class by broadcasting the tasks for your students using a shared screen. If you want the students to work individually, they need accounts (they don't need email). Without a student account, there would be no way for a teacher to see results of the students or to save the results. For now we are focused on building tools where teachers can monitor how students are doing. We are considering a practice mode that would allow for this, though. Thanks for your request!

Thanks so much for the sweet words, Vinod. We're working hard every day to try to make the site better for all our teachers around the world. So glad it's beneficial to you!

Thanks for being a subscriber and for your feedback, Malcolm! As it turns out, we are working on a notification system just as you suggest. Stay tuned for its release! If you're eager to see what other feature updates we've made recently, you can keep an eye on our Feature Releases blog post, which we update anytime there's a new and exciting update: https://ellii.com/blog/feature-updates-2020

Hi Kathleen! You can use ESL Library with any platform with a "screen-sharing" function (which would allow your granddaughter to see what's on your screen). I'm not a Facetime expert, but I believe it does have a screen-sharing function, so that should work just fine for you guys.

I would strongly recommend registering for our "Teach Online with ESL Library" on-demand webinar (see original blog post for link to registration page). The webinar is about an hour long, but you can watch it at your convenience with a favorite beverage in hand. It will really give you a great sense of what you can do -- you can some examples of types of activities on the site. We have lots of one-on-one tutors who use our site with great success, so I imagine it would work wonderfully with your granddaughter as well!

Also, if you do decide to dive in and try a subscription -- you can always email us if it's not working out for you. We can help answer questions or figure out a good solution.

Happy family bonding to you!

Hi Pratima, you can register for our upcoming live and on-demand webinars here: https://app.livestorm.co/esllibrary

The live webinars have a live chat area and Questions tab, so you can communicate with ESL Library staff or other teachers around the world. The on-demand webinars contain similar content (just without the live chat/Q&A).

For our live webinars, use the drop-down menu to choose the best date/time for you (please note timezones). If your desired webinar is full, keep checking back. We usually schedule new webinars at the end of the week :)

Awww, thanks. We think our content is pretty great -- but it works best with great teachers :) Congratulations to you and your students on the accomplishment! I wish them well in Intermediate class.

Hi Salma,

Does your English teacher use ESL Library? Your teacher can give you homework on ESL Library.

Have fun learning English!

Hi Karen,

We do not offer free trials to individual instructors, however, due to the COVID crisis, we are offering discounted and donated subscriptions to programs and schools on a case-by-case basis.

You can have your program/school administrator reach out to us at hello@ellii.com and we'll be happy to find a solution for you.

The other option, if you teach individually, is you can always pay for a month to try out the site and if it doesn't work for you, you can email us and we will happily refund. All Standard Plans are currently being upgraded to Plus Plans through at least June 30th, due to COVID, so if you register for the Standard, you will have access to try out the full extent of our digital tools.

I hope that helps!

Hi Mary,

To join one of our upcoming live webinars, you can register here: https://app.livestorm.co/esllibrary

You can use the drop-down menu to select the best day/time for you. If none of the times work with your schedule, you can register for one of our on-demand webinars (same link as above).

I hope that helps!

Hi Veronica,

You can go to the main drop-down menu "Class Prep" --> "Results". Click on the Lesson you assigned so you can see all tasks that were assigned. Click on the due date for the task. It will take you to the page where you can change the due date or (to the right of the due date area) click the "Cancel Assignment" X. Click "Save"!

**Please note that if you Cancel an Assignment, the task will no longer be assigned to students and all student Results for that task will disappear.

Hi Rakesh,

ESL Library is developed with ESL teachers in mind, but we have many tutors who use the site. I think it would be accessible for a parent to use with a child as part of home learning -- although I would recommend exploring our How-To Videos first (https://help.ellii.com/collection/1-how-to-videos) to get a sense of how you can use the site!

If you want to assign digital homework and keep track of your student's results, then you might consider our Plus Plan. But if you are planning to do the work together, or just let your child use your "teacher" account to do tasks (without needing to record your child's results), then you are probably just fine with our Standard plan. You can read more about the two plans here on our Pricing page: https://ellii.com/pricing

Happy learning!

Hi Maria,

Yes, absolutely! You can go to the main drop-down menu "Class Prep" --> "Results". Click on the Lesson you assigned so you can see all digital tasks that were assigned. Click on the due date for the task. It will take you to the page where you can change the due date or (to the right of the due date area) click the "Cancel Assignment" X. Click "Save"!

**Please note that if you Cancel an Assignment, the task will no longer be assigned to students and all student Results for that task will disappear.

Hi Mrinal,

ESL Library does not have a platform to "host" lessons. We provide ready-made lesson plans and activities/resources that you can use with your students. If you use a platform like Zoom/Google Meet (with a screen-sharing feature), then you can also host an online class with your students and use ESL Library materials to teach.

If you'd like to learn more about teaching online with ESL Library, I recommend joining one of our upcoming live or on-demand webinars. The live webinars have an active chat/questions area, as well as a live Q&A session at the end. The on-demand webinars can be watched any time at your convenience (without the live chat/Q&A).

You can register for our webinars here: https://app.livestorm.co/esllibrary

If I missed the mark answering your question, please use the "Contact Us" link at the very bottom of this site to send us an email or give us a call. We'll be happy to help!

Hi Seunggu,

Good job making a student account!

If you have a class code from your teacher, then go to www.ellii.com/students Log in to your account. Then, click on your name in the top right corner. Click on "Join a Class". You can add your class code there.

If you don't have a class code, then you need to ask your teacher for it. When you have the class code, go to www.ellii.com/students log into your account, and then you can click on your name, click "Join Class" and enter the class code.

If you need more help, you can watch this video: https://ellii.com/blog/students-join-with-class-code

Good luck!

Hi there Ralph,

Hmmmm, an interesting suggestion! I'm not sure if our publishing team has discussed that one or not, but I'll pass along the idea.

I do know that we've been trying to shift all of our lessons over to digital format as quickly as possible, so that screen-sharing each task can be done in a more interactive and engaging way as digital tasks, but of course if students have a physical handout in class and an instructor wants to share a similar-appearing PDF, that doesn't address the issue.

I'm wondering how a shift to landscape might affect the size of text and activities (since portrait mode tends to fill the screen of the device it's on). At this point, I'm just idly wondering.

Let me pass this thought on to our developers and head of publishing -- and thanks for sharing your idea!

Awww, thank you for the kind words!

Hi Nasreen!

We have added additional spaces to our upcoming sessions and have also added some new sessions. Please use the link you have (if it's for a private event) or click this link to register for our general webinars: https://app.livestorm.co/esllibrary

And thank you for your interest and persistence!

Hi Jo,

Yes, you can register for our upcoming live and on-demand webinars here: https://app.livestorm.co/esllibrary

1. For a synchronous lesson, you will need a third-party platform like Zoom/Skype etc. to use in conjunction with ESL Library.

2. This is the primary focus of the webinar, so check it out.

But here's how you do it: While in Zoom (or whichever platform), you will want to click the screen-share button inside Zoom. Then, just navigate to ellii.com and log into your teacher account and go to a lesson you like. Click over to the Digital tab and click on a task type. You will need to elicit responses from students and click the buttons for them. (There are other ways to do activities with your students which are covered in the webinar, as well.)

You can either do activities together as a class using screen-share (in the more traditional method) or assign digital tasks/reading/listening to your students in advance, then review tasks via screen-share during a live class (in the flipped classroom model). So many options -- it just depends on your teaching needs and students' needs :)

Hi M. Claudia,

You can email hello@ellii.com Please tell us how we can help you :)

Hi Lulu,

We have a short How-To Video in our Help section: https://help.ellii.com/article/194-video-flashcard-player-demo

Take a peek and you'll become a master at the flashcards!

We are so, so glad to hear that this has been working well for you. Have fun with your online teaching!

I'm blushing, Shewli! Thank you for the sweet words. Best of luck to you and your students as the online teaching adventure continues!

Hi William,

I'd recommend joining one of our upcoming live or on-demand webinars, Teach Online with ESL Library. We cover this topic in the webinar in detail. You can register here: https://app.livestorm.co/esllibrary

But as a short answer, I would probably use a combination of the two. I would assign homework for students to do within their own accounts, and then do a live lesson with screensharing via Zoom. During the live screenshare, we could review homework tasks or do additional, related tasks together.

If you'd like more details, be sure to check out the webinar :)

I am sharing with the PRO version of Zoom, and the ESL Library Plus Plan and they work seamlessly together. I usually download the Teachers Version, and the student's version after assigning the lesson to the class. I then scroll down to the picture cards and flip the lesson so the students are able to see the picture cards correctly. This allows me to set the context of the lesson and at the same time elicit the target language. Should the digital version not include the picture cards to the lexical items I tend to write them down and look for them on ESL Library myself. They have almost everything you could think of in a picture card. And if for some reason I am not able to find what I am looking for I search for a similar image and just edit the text on the flashcard to match my target language. After eliciting the target language from the teacher's version I then share my screen to show the students the (Student Version) of the task I want them to work on. I model the first two tasks with the students so they have a clear idea of what is expected from them. The communicative tasks from ESL Library work perfectly in breakout rooms. You just have to make sure you set the tasks just right and that you give clear ICQ's. Since all of the tasks are scaffolded one with the other it allows students to understand even more. I would like to add that all of my students are EFL learners and not ESL learners. Nevertheless, as an educator, I adapt my lessons to my student's needs. ESL Library in my opinion is the best thing that has happened to the ELT community thus far.

Hi Karen,

I wanted to start off by letting you know that if you're a current subscriber as of June 30th, you will likely receive an extended upgrade until the end of summer.
Ben, our CEO, is discussing the specifics of that with our developers right now and should be making an announcement here on the blog within the next week or so. I just wanted to let you know that, while I don't have the answers for you right now, I spoke with Ben about your question this morning and he said he'll be posting something about it shortly.

I can say that teachers and students will have access to their results (to see how they did on digital tasks) and, as a general reminder, our Read & Listen tasks will remain available to all subscribers so that students can get indepedent reading and listening practice "outside" of class.

I know that doesn't answer all of your questions, but keep your eyes peeled for Ben's upcoming announcement with more details.

Hello Rouzbeh,

ESL Library does not provide English classes. Sorry!

You can search online for an ESL school near you -- many colleges and private schools are offering online ESL classes now. You might try searching "online ESL class + [your city name]" or just "online ESL class".

Good luck!

Hi Marly,

I'm sorry to hear about your current struggles. There are lots of options for adapting your lessons online. I would start by finding a live screen-sharing platform, such as Zoom or Google Meet (two very popular options). Remember that you can scan (or even just take photos with your phone) of your favorite printed lesson plans and then have a digital copy of them. You can then use the platform like Zoom, Google Meet, etc. to share and discuss those lessons live with your students.

If you don't have the option to teach "live" with your students, consider an asynchronous platform (like Google Classroom) that you can use with your students. Or even emailing back and forth with them is an option.

Of course, if you're using ESL Library, then we have lots of options for you. I would strongly recommend attending one of our "Teach Online with ESL Library" webinars. They are about an hour long, and we cover how to teach with live screensharing platforms or asynchronously using ESL Library.

You can absolutely teach any level online and although there's a learning curve for students and teachers, it's worth learning!

You can register for our upcoming live and on-demand webinars here: https://app.livestorm.co/esllibrary

Live webinars have an active chat area where you can ask questions of other teachers around the world and a questions area where you can ask the ESL Library team questions. We also have a live Q&A at the end. On-demand webinars can be viewed at any time, but do not have the live chat/questions/Q&A.

I hope this helps. And happy teaching to you!

Hola Silvia,

Lo siento por mi español...no he lo usado por mucho tiempo 😬

Nuestra plataforma ayuda a los maestros a enseñar inglés y es completamente en inglés. Para usar ESL Library como un estudiante, es necesario que un maestro le invite a su clase con un "class code".

¡Buena suerte con sus estudios!

That's a great point, Jen. Let me pass along this suggestion to our development team and see if they can update the text in a way that makes more sense for teachers!

Thanks for taking the time to point it out :)

We are so happy to hear this!! I'm going to share this post with the team to brighten their day :)

Hola Mr. D!

Yes, you will still have access to your classroom and the digital version after June 30. In fact, if you have a Standard plan by June 30, you will have your Plus plan access continued until at least the end of August.

You can read more about our extended COVID support here: https://ellii.com/blog/covid-extension

Happy teaching :)

Hi Christine,

I would recommend registering for our On-Demand Webinar, "Teaching Online with ESL Library". At about 6 minutes in, I show exactly how you can use Zoom to broadcast digital lessons. You can register here and view at your convenience: https://app.livestorm.co/esllibrary

However, the basic idea is that you'll want to open Zoom (with all of your students also in your Zoom meeting). Click on the "Share Screen" button in Zoom and choose to share your entire screen.

At that point, your students will be able to see anything that is on your computer screen. Go to ellii.com and log in to your teacher account. Go to the lesson you want to broadcast with your students. Click over the "Digital" side of the lesson and click into a digital activity. Your students will be able to see what you do on screen and you will need to elicit responses from your students and, typically, do the clicking of correct answers yourself.

The on-demand webinar I referred to above goes into much more detail about how you can run these online classes with broadcasting.

Happy teaching!