24/25 Languagenut Updates
What’s New in Languagenut: Academic Year 2024–25 🌟
We’re always finding ways to save you time and make language learning more engaging for your students. Over the past academic year, we’ve rolled out a wide range of updates across Admin, Resources, and Mobile — all designed to make teaching and learning smoother.
✨Highlights
- A fresh, more powerful Admin Area
- More GCSE & Secondary content across multiple languages
- Flexible Scheme of Work Builder
- Games and resources that give teachers more control
- New support tools and training to save you time
Here’s a more detailed look at the key changes you and your students can now enjoy:
📊 Smarter Admin Tools
- Admin Area Refresh – updates to make it easier to find what you need.
- Assignments made easier:
- Time tracking now includes both practice and quiz time.
- Teacher instructions are now visible in the assignment overview
- New “Preview” button in Assignments Overview
- See classes clearly in “Active” and “Past” assignments.
- Download written feedback as a PDF.
- Quickly check what students answered in vocab games, rather than just what they got correct and incorrect.
- Year 7 baseline assessments now available in French, German, Spanish in your assignment favourites list
- Gradebook: select all classes at once.
- Student access made simple – QR codes are now included when downloading login details.
- Scheme of Work Builder – now available with flexible 14-week set-up options.
- Content Tools
- Improved user experienced when uploading and organising your custom content.
- Revamped vocab visual/display, with ability to upload or record support vocab
- Duplicate feature added for custom vocab, sentence building, and exam skills
o Sentence Building now supports audio in learning & support, including dictation.
- New Support Widget – get instant access to help articles and easy contact with our team, straight from your Admin area.
📚 Better Resources for Teaching & Learning
- New content for secondary:
- KS3 GCSE content in German (AQA & Edexcel).
- New grammar content in French, German and Spanish (Secondary & IGCSE).
- Italian GCSE vocabulary + Italian phonics and tenses.
- New Exam Skills Writing translation tasks in KS3 (AQA & Edexcel).
- Eight new Spanish verbs with full tense coverage.
- Games with more flexibility:
- Option to remove timers in vocab games.
- Turn off sound effects in Sentence Building and Phonics.
- Word Pop: new controls to slow or stop bubbles.
- Faster Sentence Building “Forklift” games.
- Vocab Trainer now has a handy preview option.
- Exam Skills Upgrades:
- Listening ‘Who Said What’ activity now includes a results page with correct answers.
- Transcripts available to download for any listening task.
- Global School Ranking – a brand-new leaderboard, visible to students, to keep motivation high.
- New Languages:
- Urdu
- Pasifika languages added as support languages for EAL (Cook Island Māori, Tokeluan, Niuean, Tongan, Samoan).
📱 On-the-Go Learning with the Mobile Version
- New mobile experience – redesigned for a smoother student experience.
- More practice on mobile: students can now work on Vocab, Grammar and Verbs anywhere.
- Dictation games now available in Grammar and Sentence Building.
- EAL support languages can be selected directly in the mobile version.
- QR code login on mobile – quick and easy student access.
🎓 Support for Teachers
- Languagenut Certified Teacher Programme – free access for trainee language teachers now live on our UK site
- EAL Proficiency Testing (EPT) – improved settings and results view for schools with EAL learners.
We’re really excited to see how these updates will help you and your students get even more from Languagenut.