Private Beta: Real-time Interactive Teaching Aid (RITA)
Learn more about our first private beta (RITA)
Overview
Off2Class is integrating LLM (Large Language Model) capabilities with its extensive Lesson Library to provide teachers with a powerful tool, RITA (Real-time Interactive Teaching Aid), for navigating our educational content and customizing it to their specific needs. This initiative aims to streamline the process of selecting and adapting lessons, making it easier for educators to personalize instruction while maintaining high-quality educational standards.
Releases of RITA will be rolling throughout 2025 and beyond with functionality expanding with each release.
Private beta program
Beta participants receive exclusive access to private beta features to test them out and share feedback before anyone else. They play a key role in shaping our features. The total time commitment is minimal—typically one hour per beta—and you can choose which ones to join. Multiple betas will be running in 2025, with two starting in H1 and more coming in H2.
Are you interested in applying to join our private beta program? Apply here.
Current release (v1 - March 24, 2025)
RITA v1 features a powerful AI-based search tool designed to help Off2Class quickly find just the right lessons for teachers. By submitting their text-based requests to Off2Class, users can easily search for lessons based on combinations of multiple criteria, including lesson topic, grammar points, task type, language skills, and proficiency level. This intelligent search capability streamlines lesson planning, saving time and making it easier to discover high-quality, relevant content for specific teaching needs.
In future releases, RITA will be expanded to support increasingly complex outputs, potentially including:
- Handouts and extension activities for specific lessons.
- Teaching guides for users.
- Curriculum mapping documents.
- And much more.
Future releases will also see users being able to interact directly with RITA, with participants in our private beta program getting earliest access to RITA.
Examples
Query 1: Find me lessons about science.
Response 1:
Here are some ESL lessons related to science:
1. 1-2 Inside the science classroom
- Description: This lesson helps students describe activities and tasks performed in a science classroom, focusing on key verbs and imperative statements.
2. 1-1 General science
- Description: This lesson introduces students to basic science vocabulary and explains the use of prefixes and suffixes to understand word meanings.
3. 9.2 The Scientific Method
- Description: This lesson covers the language used in the steps of the scientific method and teaches common phrases for offering suggestions, helping students understand the vocabulary involved in planning an experiment.
You can explore these lessons to enhance your understanding of science-related English vocabulary and concepts.
Query 2: Where can I find a lesson on tenses? I'm looking for something that covers present and past, along with pronunciation—especially for plural words ending in sounds like k, t, or e.
Response 2:
Here are some ESL lessons that cover tenses and pronunciation:
1. LA021 - Past-Simple-Pronunciation-of-Ed-for-Regular-Verbs
- Description: This lesson models the pronunciation of –ed for regular verbs in the past simple, focusing on verbs ending in sounds like /p/, /f/, /s/, /sh/, /tch/, /k/ which are pronounced as /t/, and verbs ending in /t/ and /d/ pronounced as /ɪd/, promoting naturalness and fluency in the past simple.
2. BUS.B1.1.2
- Description: This lesson teaches the present perfect and past simple to discuss past and present job roles and responsibilities, including the pronunciation of -ed in the past simple.
3. B1.26.1
- Description: This lesson focuses on learning the pronunciation of -ed in the past simple.
These lessons should help you with understanding tenses and pronunciation, particularly for words ending in specific sounds.
Query 3: I need some lessons that teach the present perfect tense
Response 3:
Here are some ESL lessons that teach the present perfect tense:
1. SS.A2.23.1
- Description: Learn the present perfect and irregular past participle forms. At the end of the lesson, students can use the present perfect to talk about finished actions in an unfinished time period.
2. B1.27.1
- Description: Learn the present perfect, differences in usage between present perfect and past simple, ever and never with present perfect, and past time expressions.
These lessons will help you understand and use the present perfect tense effectively.
Query 4: Show me 5 beginner-level speaking activities about family
Response 4:
Here are some ESL lessons that include beginner-level speaking activities about family:
1. SS.A1.4.3
- Description: Learn language to make basic statements about family and friends, enabling students to talk about friends and family in photos and make comments and ask questions about others' photos.
2. R001 - Family and friends
- Description: Focuses on reading a text about family and friends, providing practice in reading for general understanding and deeper comprehension, which can support speaking activities.
3. A1.4.3
- Description: Similar to SS.A1.4.3, this lesson helps students learn language to make basic statements about family and friends.
4. SS.A1.1.3
- Description: Teaches basic greetings and how to ask about people, allowing students to use greetings to meet and introduce people, which can be applied to family contexts.
5. S001 - Family and friends
- Description: Introduces vocabulary to describe family and provides speaking practice, enabling students to ask and answer simple questions about family.
These lessons offer a variety of activities that can help beginners practice speaking about family.
Query 5: Do you offer Conversational English lessons that focus on common phrases, questions, and how to start conversations?
Response 5:
The retrieved lessons focus primarily on basic greetings and introductions, which are foundational for conversational English. Here are the relevant lessons:
1. SS.A1.1.3
- Description: Learn basic greetings and to ask about people, enabling students to use basic greetings to meet and introduce people, and say goodbye in different ways.
2. A1.1.3
- Description: Focuses on learning basic greetings and asking about people.
3. LA001 - Hello-and-Good-Bye
- Description: Introduces basic greeting vocabulary (e.g., hello, good-bye, good morning, bye, see you tomorrow) and provides tasks to promote listening skills.
While these lessons cover greetings and introductions, which are essential for starting conversations, they do not specifically focus on a wide range of common phrases and questions for conversational English.
Query 6: Find intermediate lessons about the present perfect.
Response 6:
Here are some intermediate ESL lessons that focus on the present perfect:
1. B1.38.2
- Description: Learn the present perfect continuous and study differences in usage with the present perfect simple.
2. VS5.4 - Present-Perfect-Simple - 4
- Description: Covers the present perfect simple in positive and negative form using contractions (I’ve, you’ve, he’s, hasn’t) and includes usage with gone/been, and ever/never.
These lessons provide a focus on the present perfect tense, including its continuous form and differences with the simple form.