Xeropan Classroom, an innovative pioneer amongst the new generation of learning management systems
Neptun, ETR, Modulo. These learning management systems (LMS) sound familiar to us language teachers, university lecturers and former university students. Usually, we pair and match the feelings that take place in the minds of the heroes of Estragon and Vladimir Beckett’s famous drama: a constant, useless wait for Godot, that is, for our current educator or student hero, to access the content.
The feature of user-unfriendliness of these LMSs has been ingrained in us as permanently as the brand of canned soup in an Andy Warhol picture or the word ‘baby’ sung in a Britney Spears song a thousand times. We have tried to remedy these anomalies in recent years with more or less success.
To date, the three features of an effective LMS have been lacking: 1) effective feature access, 2) linking to content, and 3) the capability for quick student-teacher communication. Xeropan Classroom, launched in October 2020, is designed to fill these gaps and to help implement language pedagogy effectively in the 21st century.
In recent years, the Xeropan team has created a gamified application for all student levels that develops both receptive and productive skills. This app might soon begin to be as popular in the educational field as a newly-launched game amongst gamers. Xeropan Classroom has been created with the worthy support of the application, with many features that are an indispensable tool for every language teacher in a changing world of digital pedagogy. Among other things, the unit of continuous task assignment monitoring is a world-class feature, which according to the literature is also a key element of an LMS, especially one supporting language teaching and learning.
Last but not least, the amount of time a teacher can save by using Classroom is undeniable. The overworked teacher’s holy trinity — the red pen, the mountain of worksheets to be corrected, and the midnight oil always burning — goes up in smoke. Like your average poker player against Doyle Brunson, the toils of the past don’t stand a chance.
The Xeropan Classroom interface provides quick and detailed feedback on student performance. This allows formative assessment, one of the important assessment procedures in modern pedagogy, to be fully realized. The language teacher receives information about the areas to be developed at a given moment and can select the subsequent course material in Classroom using the filter function accordingly.
Welcome to 21st century language education!
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