Product

One class,
from prep to review.

Soar is classroom software that installs on your computer. Open it and you get five boards — this page covers how they connect.

One piece of material goes from prep to review; nothing is entered a second time along the way.

Understand it in class. Actually learn it afterwards.

The lesson you prepared: in class it tunes the wording of the subtitles; after class it is where the review questions come from.

All the way through

Before classDrop the material in; what comes out is one usable document.

In classEvery sentence you say, in two languages, line for line.

After classA student asks; the answer comes back with its source — pointing back at the sentence you said in class.

One thing does not flow

What you have not handed out never reaches students. Not even by opening it directly.

Between those three, nothing is exported and imported back.

What's in the box

Subtitles can float outside the app: On Android the subtitles become a picture-in-picture window, so you can read another file and still watch them. On a device that can't do it, the button simply never appears — we don't put up one that does nothing when you press it.
Edit it, and the class reads the new one: The teacher edits on the phone, and the moment it is saved that is what the whole class reads — there is no “send it again” step. Each person's language keeps up on its own: an edit voids the old translation, and the next time it is opened it is translated afresh. Students see “these were changed” when they open it.
Groups, inbox, grouped by session: Form a group and work on it together — the group opens one shared document, several people edit at once, and whoever edits it, it syncs. What a classmate sends you lands in the inbox. Material is grouped by the day it was taught, so a thirty-session course is not one flat list.

Students: What I noted in class comes back to me at night.
Lectures in another language: The professor talks fast; the captions keep up, line by line.
Teachers: What I prepare is what they review.
Teaching assistants: I take this course and teach that one.

The one you put in before class tunes the subtitles in class and becomes the questions afterwards. Everywhere else, it does not fill in for you.