Put useful phrases within reach.
Choose a real-life situation and language variety, review AI-drafted lesson text, then voice selected phrases separately.
Study the phrase, practise matching it to a scene and take a graded check.
From setup to learning
A starting path for teachers. Review learner-facing material before using it in class.
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Plan a lesson
Choose the language context and prepare the material learners should work through.
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Draft and review text
Request an AI lesson text draft in Moodle and review it for accuracy, level and cultural context before using it in the lesson.
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Voice selected phrases
Request teacher-initiated phrase speech synthesis separately when hearing a phrase helps learners practise. You can also use teacher recordings or browser voice where available.
Build a moment learners can use
The lesson plan
Choose the taught language and region, situations, learners' language and level to ground the material in a useful context.
Review the draft
Generate a lesson text draft through LMS Labs in Moodle, inspect and edit the material, and place phrases in context. The copy-and-paste prompt remains another authoring path.
Voice is a separate choice
A teacher can request a phrase MP3 through the dedicated speech route. A generated lesson draft does not include speech or an image.
Three learning stages
Study presents phrases in context; Practice includes matching and speaking where supported; Test checks matching, listening and speaking with server-side marking.
What the activity brings
Lesson text drafts
The dedicated LMS Labs lesson route returns a draft for the teacher to review; drafting does not automatically include audio or imagery.
Phrase-level voice
A teacher can generate an MP3 for a selected phrase as a distinct LMS Labs operation. Slow listening reuses that audio at no extra generation cost.
Traffic-light progress
The supplied 1.3.1 release adds red, amber and green mastery bars on the activity and reports. Teachers can adjust the thresholds; defaults are amber from 40% and green from 70%.
Speech boundary
Paid LMS Labs speech-to-text for learner practice remains unavailable. Browser recognition checks recognised words where supported, not pronunciation; a listen-back self-check is a fallback.
Know what is separate
Operation credits
Lesson drafts and imported scenes cost 5 credits (US$0.50) each. Paid teacher-initiated phrase speech costs 2 credits (US$0.20) per generated and settled clip. The clip-reference integration allows 10 free re-makes per clip in a rolling 30-day window after its first paid generation; over-limit re-makes cost 2 credits, shown before confirmation. This needs a matching Moodle update and server publication; requests without a clip reference cost 2 credits each. Previously completed charges stay unchanged. A lost response can still have a completed charge. Text does not include audio. Paid LMS Labs STT/practice and image generation remain unavailable. One-time plugin access is separate.
Important boundary. The draft and phrase MP3 are distinct paid operations. Paid learner speech recognition and image generation are not available in v1.0.3; browser recognition is not a pronunciation assessor.
Installation
Installation is an administrator action. Do not use a candidate attachment as a substitute for a verified release.
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Obtain the release
Once a promoted release is available, complete the required access verification and obtain the verified ZIP from LMS Labs.
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Install in Moodle
As a site administrator, go to Site administration → Plugins → Install plugins, upload the ZIP and follow Moodle’s validation and upgrade prompts.
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Add to a course
Enable editing in a course and add AI Language Teacher as an activity. Configure it before opening it to learners.
Plugin location: /mod/ailanguageteacher/
Frequently asked questions
Does this assess learner pronunciation?
Not as a pronunciation score. Paid LMS Labs STT is unavailable. Where enabled and supported, browser speech recognition checks recognised words; the browser vendor may process audio.
Do I get audio with each lesson draft?
No. Teacher-initiated phrase MP3 synthesis is a separate 2-credit operation per successfully generated and settled paid clip, with ten eligible free re-makes per tracked clip in a rolling 30 days. Closing the page does not cancel a completed charge.
What changed for database-read errors?
The release report identifies a missing stored-requests table after older 1.1.0 upgrades. Version 1.3.0 added the repair; supplied 1.3.1 adds regression tests for creating that table and preserving older request keys and voices. This is not a claim that every database error has the same cause.
What does an expired voice result mean?
It means the request can no longer return audio, not proof of a charge. The message now includes the LMS Labs reference: keep it and contact support before generating again.
Can a learner work without a microphone?
Yes for studying, matching and listening; speaking activities need a microphone or the documented self-check path.