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Learning platforms, placement tests and course material for schools and training centers, and made-to-measure systems for any business that off-the-shelf tools don’t fit.

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Not configured. Built.
Your processin the platform, in your order
Your documentsfilled from the record
Your materialsdesigned to sit inside it
Your ruleswritten in from the first screen
Live todayReal screens, as they run today.
Connect for CELTA: a real screenConnect for CELTALiveA whole teacher-training course on one platform: a room for every trainee, tutor, center and assessor.Walk the demo courseConnect Lite: a real screenConnect LiteLiveThe timetable as a board: every session a coloured tile, days across or down, the teaching letters in place, the deadlines marked. Running a real course today.See how Lite worksThe speaking test: a real screenThe speaking testLiveThe examiner’s screen after the interview: the candidate’s own words, the slips marked, a level suggested for each criterion with the words as evidence. The candidate never sees this.Write to Connect
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What Connect does

One platform, or any part of it on its own.

Teacher trainingA whole CELTA course in one place, for tutors, trainees, centers and assessors.TestingSpeaking and written placement tests, aligned to the CEFR.CRM and admissionsInquiries, applications, interviews, offers and payments in one pipeline.Exam preparationInteractive courses and materials for IELTS, TOEFL and PTE.Content and material designLessons, courses and materials written for your learners.Made to measureA platform built around your school's own way of working.
Testing

A product of its own.

Placement and diagnostic tests, in a format of your own.

Watch it · 46 seconds
The written test, part after part, as the candidate sees it: the start, grammar and vocabulary, reading, listening and writing
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Placement

The student in the right level.

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Diagnosis

A profile by level for each part.

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Reliability

Discrete items, marked by one rule every time.

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Objectivity

One right answer to each item. Writing and speaking read against descriptors.

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Validity

The results checked against students whose level you already know.

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Fairness

The same questions, time and marking for every candidate.

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Variety of format

Multiple choice, texts, recordings, a writing task and an interview.

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Practicality

A link on a phone or a laptop. No account. About 40 to 60 minutes.

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Credibility

Aligned to the CEFR, with the examiner's level as the record.

The format of the examiner's screen: four to choose from

Spotlight Live

The interview: one question at a time, large, on a phone, the buttons under the thumb.

The examiner's screenThe candidate never sees it

Replay Live

The review: the transcript lights up and the levels fill in as the recording plays.

The examiner's screenThe candidate never sees it

Step by step Live

Each stage opens when the one before is done; finished stages fold away.

The examiner's screenThe candidate never sees it

Overview Live

Every criterion against every level, on one working screen.

The examiner's screenThe candidate never sees it

What else Connect makes

Digital learning platforms

Designed screen by screen, for each role that uses them, and built from the ground up.

See a sampleA course's timetable, drawn as a board

Material and course design

Lessons, sessions, tasks and tests, designed to be taught from and built to sit inside the platform they live on.

See a sampleA lesson plan, built from its brief

Integration

Joined to what a school already runs on, so nothing is entered twice and nothing is left out.

See a sampleReplies and attendance, with nothing typed in

Records and reports

One record per person, and the documents an authority or a client asks for, produced from it.

See a sampleEvery trainee, on one page

The invitation is a link. Send it, and the course is open.

Each trainee, tutor, assessor and volunteer student gets a link of their own. It arrives as a message, or as a card with a QR code to print or show on a screen.

There is no account to make and nothing to install. The link is the key, so it opens straight into that person’s own work.

A Connect Lite course invitation: the trainee's name, their own link, and a QR code that opens the same link.
  1. 1 · SentThe link arrives
  2. 2 · ScannedOr the code is scanned
  3. 3 · OpenedThe course opens
A CRM for teacher-training centers

Inquiries, applicants and the waiting list, in one place.

What is a CRM?

A CRM is where a center keeps everyone who is interested in a course and everyone who has joined it. Connect has one, built for CELTA centers and joined to the course itself. For any other kind of school, made to measure.

Every applicant

From the first form to a paid place.

Where each stage leaks

Seen while there is still time to act.

The waiting list

A lapsed place is filled before day one.

Volunteer students

Their hours and their certificates.

See a sampleThe admissions pipeline

Admissions · pipeline

1 paid · 14 applications

Demo course

14

Applications

10

Interviewed

7

Offered

2

Deposit paid

1

Paid in full

  • Marta KowalskiAccepted · applied Oct 9
  • Yusuf DemirAccepted · applied Oct 4
  • Chiara RossiAccepted · applied Sep 29
  • Tomás HerreraOffer sent · applied Sep 24

This week

Sun

The waiting list has 1 person on it.

Waiting list: 1 person

The work

Three platforms. None of them a template.

The tutor's day in Connect for CELTA, on a tablet
A full platformLive

Connect for CELTA

A whole course on one platform, a room for every person.

Walk the demo
The front page of Connect Lite, on a phone
A light platformLive

Connect Lite

The same course on plain pages. No sign-up.

Open Connect Lite
A center's overview in Connect: payments, courses and the admissions pipeline
For the whole centerLive

Center management

Applications, payments and every course a center runs, in one place.

See the demo center
On every screen

The same record, on a phone, a tablet and a desk.

Every room is drawn for each size, not shrunk to fit. Scroll, and the screen changes with you. These are live screens: open one. No sign-up; the people in the demo are made up.

The owner, on a phone
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The owner, on a phone

Every course, every center, the money and the people at risk, before breakfast.

Open it, live
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The tutor, on a tablet

Today's timetable, the lesson plans waiting, the feedback to write, in the order the day runs.

Open it, live
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The trainee, on a phone

What is due, what comes next and where to be, on the screen they always have with them.

Open it, live
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Everyone, on a laptop

At a desk, every room opens full width: the same record, with room to work.

Open it, live
Connect Lite

A whole course, from a link on a phone.

No account, nothing to install

The link opens the course, and the course is plain pages. Open one.

The front page
The TP points library
Input sessions
Made to measure

If your course can be described, the platform can be built to match.

The other way round

Most learning software asks you to change how you teach so it fits. Connect works the other way round. Your process, your documents, your records and your rules are designed into the platform from the first screen, and the material it carries is designed to fit inside it.

One person designs both

Because the same person designs the content and builds the platform, the two were made for each other.

Content and material design

01

Lessons and sessions, written to be taught from.

Connectivity

02

One record across every role.

Integration

03

Joined to the calendars, drives and sheets you already keep.

How it is built

Designed first. Every screen drawn before a line of code.

A Connect platform starts as screens you can open on your phone.

Only then is it built

You change the screens in plain words until they are right. Then it is built, on foundations that already run a real course, so nothing starts from nothing.

  1. 01

    We start from your course

    How you actually teach, assess and report, before any software is chosen.

  2. 02

    You see it before it exists

    Every role, every room, on a phone and on a desk, as a design you can open and comment on.

  3. 03

    It is built from the ground up

    Your design system, your words, your documents. Nothing bolted on, nothing squeezed in.

  4. 04

    It is joined up

    One record, so nothing is typed twice and nothing is left out.

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    It is tested in a real classroom

    Connect is run by a teacher trainer who teaches on the courses it serves.

Start with the screens

Tell Connect about your school.

Answer what you can. Your brief takes shape beside the questions as you go.

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RunsWaiting for you
SizeWaiting for you
TodayWaiting for you
WantsWaiting for you
Reply toWaiting for you
  1. 1A reply within a working day
  2. 2Drawings of your screens, on a phone and on a desk
  3. 3A price only after, once the screens are right
1 What does your school run?
Nothing is kept beyond what you write. No list, no newsletter.