What’s New

A combined review view brings the student's responses and answer key together. You can also open the answer key separately. The combined view is available from Student Profile, Class Management and Teacher Panel.

From Class Management and Teacher Panel, you can continue to the next submission within the review window. This navigation isn't available from Student Profile. The homework area also has an updated layout and graphics.

Speaking homework questions now receive automatic scores and AI-generated feedback. When a student records and submits a speaking response, Off2Class evaluates the recording and provides a suggested score and feedback for the question. As with writing auto-scoring, teachers review everything before students can see it. Nothing goes to students automatically, and teachers can edit scores, rewrite feedback or add their own notes at any time.

With this launch, every homework question type is now auto-scored with feedback: multiple choice, gap-fill, free-text writing and speaking.

Speaking responses are the hardest homework items to grade. Every submission is an audio clip that has to be played back, evaluated and commented on. Now, the AI handles the first pass: listening to the recording, suggesting a score and drafting feedback. The teacher reviews, adjusts and releases. Clear-cut responses need minimal review. Responses that require a human ear get one, with the AI's draft as a starting point. The result is faster turnaround and more consistent feedback on the question type that usually gets the least.

As with writing, this is a teacher tool. Students never see scores or feedback until the teacher releases them. The AI works for the teacher, not in place of them.

Student Handouts are printable practice materials that reinforce lesson content and give students more chances to practice, in class or on their own. They're now available across six programs:

• Everyday English for Newcomers
• Reading for Newcomers
• Speaking for Newcomers
• Step-by-Step Curriculum Newcomers
• Step-by-Step Curriculum for Schools (Beginner)
• Step-by-Step Curriculum for Schools (Upper Beginner)

Reading for Newcomers handouts have moved out of beta and are now live to all users. You can print the handouts for in-person classes or share them digitally for online learning.

A live Off2Class lesson is where the learning happens, but newcomers and beginning-level students often need more repetition than a single lesson allows. Student Handouts let you extend that practice without adding screen time. You can send a handout home to review the language from the day's lesson, hand one to a student who needs another pass at a concept or give an early finisher something to keep building on.

They're also a practical fit for newcomer and SLIFE classrooms. Students who work better at a slower pace, or away from a screen, can still practice between lessons. That includes anyone without a reliable device at home. And since the handouts are already made and aligned to the lessons your students are working through, the prep is done for you.

The Adaptive Placement Test brings Grammar, Reading, Listening, Writing and Speaking together in one assessment. Assign the sections you need, use results to guide teaching and reassign individual sections to track growth from level to level.

For teachers: Spend less class time testing and more time teaching. Use the results to choose where to begin, with specific lesson recommendations for Grammar, Listening and Reading. Reassign a single section later in the year to check progress in that area and plan what to teach next.

For coordinators: Use one consistent measure across classrooms and proficiency levels to track growth from level to level. Results give you documented proficiency levels for reporting, with downloadable certificates.

Each reassignment draws from a large question pool, helping provide a fresh testing experience throughout the year.

We've added a Speaking section to the Adaptive Placement Test. Like the Writing section, Speaking is a productive assessment. Instead of multiple-choice questions, students complete three tasks that evaluate how clearly and effectively they can express ideas in spoken English. The complexity of the third task adapts based on how the student performed earlier, so the assessment stays level-appropriate. The full section takes approximately 10 minutes. Teachers can assign Speaking on its own or in any combination with Grammar, Reading, Listening and Writing.

With Speaking now available, the Adaptive Placement Test is complete across all five sections: Grammar, Reading, Listening, Writing and Speaking.

Speaking has always been the hardest domain to assess at scale. A proper speaking check means sitting with the student, prompting them, and evaluating their response in the moment. That's workable in a 1:1 setting, but in a classroom of 20+ ELs, or across a district with hundreds of newcomers, it's rarely practical. The result is that speaking often gets evaluated through informal classroom observation, which tends to miss quieter students and doesn't produce a comparable data point across a roster.

The Speaking section gives teachers a structured way to get that data point. Because it asks students to actually produce spoken English rather than recognize correct answers, it reflects real productive ability, which often diverges from what a student's grammar or writing scores suggest. That makes it particularly useful when placing newcomers, before assigning speaking-heavy content like WIDA ACCESS Speaking prep lessons, or as a supplement to classroom observation when building a student's learning plan.

With all five sections now live, teachers can run a full proficiency assessment across every domain in around an hour, then reassign any individual section to track growth from level to level over time.

Class Management now supports level-based filtering by Placement Test section. Open a class, filter students by proficiency level within Grammar, Reading, Listening, Writing, or Speaking, select the group you want to teach, and launch a lesson to just those students.

Row and column locking is also live in the Class Management table. The student name column stays anchored as you scroll horizontally, and the header row stays visible as you scroll vertically — so the table holds its shape when you're working with larger classes.

Many teachers have students across multiple proficiency levels in a single class, and those same students can land at different levels across Grammar, Reading, Listening, Writing, and Speaking. Filtering by Placement Test section puts the right grouping a few clicks away: pull up the higher-level readers, launch a targeted reading lesson, and assign the homework. Then switch the filter to lower-level students and teach a lesson live.

Small time savings every class period add up to real hours. More importantly, they make it easier to layer in differentiated practice alongside the whole-class instruction.

We've published a new Teaching Tools Overview page that consolidates all Off2Class planning and curriculum resources in one place. This includes the full lesson list spreadsheet, the Can-do Descriptors Index, vocabulary lists and can-do statements for each curriculum track (Step-by-Step, Step-by-Step for Schools, Step-by-Step Business English, and Core Curriculum), standards alignment spreadsheets for WIDA, TX ELPS, ELPA21, and CA ELD, and a subscription-based lesson availability reference.

For teachers: Before this page, finding the right planning resource meant knowing it existed and remembering where it lived. Now there's a single starting point. Need to check what vocabulary your Step-by-Step Curriculum for Schools students will encounter in the next unit? Want to look up which Off2Class lessons map to a specific WIDA language expectation? Or need to build a pacing guide using the full lesson list with objectives? It's all on one page.

The Can-do Descriptors Index is worth highlighting. It breaks down what students should be able to do at each Off2Class proficiency level across all four language domains. That's a reference you can use daily — when deciding which lessons to assign, when interpreting placement test results, or when explaining to a student or parent what a proficiency level like "Emerging" actually means in practice.

For coordinators: The standards alignment spreadsheets contain invaluable information. For example, if you're in a WIDA state, you can view mapping information between Off2Class lessons and WIDA language expectations in both directions (Off2Class → WIDA and WIDA → Off2Class). These are the documents that make it straightforward to show a curriculum committee or a Title III auditor exactly how Off2Class maps to your state's language standards.

We've added a Writing section to the Adaptive Placement Test. Unlike the Grammar, Reading, and Listening sections, which use multiple-choice questions, the Writing section asks students to complete two written tasks. The complexity of the second task adapts based on the student's response to the first, so the assessment adjusts to meet the student in real time. The full section takes approximately 10 minutes. Teachers can assign Writing on its own or in any combination with Grammar, Reading, and Listening.

Writing is the domain where teachers have the least visibility before a student actually produces something in class — and it's often the domain that creates the biggest surprises. A student can score well on grammar and reading but struggle to construct a coherent written response. An LTEL might speak fluently but hit a wall when asked to put ideas on paper. Those gaps don't surface in a multiple-choice test.

The Writing section addresses this directly. Because it evaluates actual student writing rather than recognition of correct answers, it gives teachers a realistic picture of where a student's productive writing skills are. That makes it especially useful at the start of year when making placement decisions, before assigning writing-heavy content like the Step-by-Step Curriculum or WIDA ACCESS Writing prep lessons, or when a coordinator needs a data point on writing proficiency that goes beyond classroom observation.

The Adaptive Placement Test includes all five sections: Grammar, Reading, Listening, Writing and Speaking.

Draw and write tools are now teacher-only by default. When you turn them on, only you can use them until you explicitly grant access to students.

Before this update, turning on draw or write was a class-wide toggle. If you wanted one student to annotate a slide during a group session, every student in the room got access at the same time. That meant some students would start drawing or writing on slides when they weren't supposed to — and the only fix was turning the tool off for everyone.

Now it works the way classroom management actually works — you grant access to the student who needs it, when they need it. You can have one student annotating a slide while the rest of the class follows along, or open it up to everyone for a collaborative activity, then pull access back to teacher-only when you're done. The default is locked down, so there's nothing to manage until you choose to open it.

Off2Class has published 37 updated TOEFL preparation lessons aligned to the 2026 TOEFL iBT® test format announced by ETS in May 2025. The series covers all four test sections: Reading (12 lessons), Listening (11 lessons), Writing (8 lessons) and Speaking (6 lessons). Each section begins with an introduction to its structure and scoring, progresses through the specific task types, and includes a review lesson to consolidate exam technique.

ETS updated the TOEFL iBT® format effective January 2026, which means teachers preparing students for the test need materials that reflect the current exam structure. The previous Off2Class TOEFL lessons (published in 2023) were built around the earlier format and no longer match what students will encounter on test day. These updated lessons give you current, scaffolded preparation across all four sections so your students practice the right task types with the right strategies.

We've added a Listening section to the Adaptive Placement Test. Like the Grammar and Reading sections launched in January, the Listening section adapts question difficulty in real time based on student responses, delivering a proficiency result in approximately 10 minutes. It uses multiple-choice questions testing a range of listening skills and starts at an intermediate level before adjusting up or down. Teachers can assign Listening on its own or in any combination with Grammar and Reading.

Video: In a Minute: Placement Tests

Listening is often the domain where a student's actual proficiency diverges most from what their grammar or reading scores suggest. A newcomer might have stronger receptive listening skills from exposure to English media than their written grammar reflects. An LTEL student might test well in reading but struggle with listening comprehension at natural speed. Without an independent listening assessment, those gaps stay hidden until a teacher notices them in the classroom — or until their standardized test results come back months later.

With the Listening section, teachers can now diagnose listening-specific proficiency on its own terms. That's particularly useful before assigning listening-focused content like Listening Activities or WIDA ACCESS Listening prep lessons, or when checking whether a student has made progress in listening after a targeted intervention. The results include question-level detail and recommended lessons, just like Grammar and Reading.

The Writing and Speaking sections are also available.

Off2Class has published Everyday English for Newcomers, a series of 20 lessons across nine real-world topic areas: personal information, health, housing, transportation, finances, school, support services, online safety, and applying to college. Each lesson is built around authentic conversations and language chunks students will actually encounter outside the classroom.

Most ELD curricula build general proficiency level by level. That's important, but it doesn't help the student who needs to understand a pharmacy label today or communicate with the school nurse this week. Everyday English for Newcomers fills that gap by organizing lessons around situations rather than grammar sequences. Teachers working with newly arrived students, SLIFE learners, or even LTELs with gaps in practical English now have a ready-to-teach resource that connects classroom instruction directly to students' daily lives.

We've launched a new Adaptive Placement Test alongside our existing Standard Placement Test. When assigning a placement test, teachers now choose between the two. The Adaptive test adjusts question difficulty based on each student's responses in real time, delivering precise proficiency results in around 10 minutes per section, compared to the Standard test's comprehensive 100+ question format. Teachers can assign Grammar, Reading or both, and each section can be reassigned individually for progress tracking between levels.

Initial release: Grammar and Reading.

The Listening, Writing and Speaking sections are also available.

The Standard Placement Test is thorough — it covers every grammar point in the Off2Class scope and gives teachers a detailed, question-by-question gap analysis. But that depth comes with trade-offs: every student starts with the same 100 grammar questions regardless of level, and difficulty increases linearly. For younger students, lower-level students, or any classroom with limited testing time, a shorter path to the same proficiency result makes a real difference.

The Adaptive test starts with a mid-level question and adjusts up or down based on the student’s answers, zeroing in on their proficiency without requiring them to work through items far above or below their level. A newcomer gets a shorter, level-appropriate experience, and an advanced student doesn’t have to spend time answering questions that are too simple. And because sections are independent, a teacher who only needs to assess reading — maybe before assigning Reading for Newcomers or after a targeted intervention — can do just that without requiring the full battery.

Results display in the same proficiency frameworks teachers already use (WIDA, TELPAS, CEFR, CA ELD or NY), include question-level detail showing what the student got right and wrong, and display recommended lessons for each wrong answer — the same actionable output as the Standard test, in a fraction of the time.

Free-text homework questions now receive automatic scores and AI-generated feedback. When a student submits homework, Off2Class evaluates their written responses and provides a suggested score and feedback for each question. Teachers review everything before students can see it which means that nothing goes to students automatically. Teachers can edit scores, rewrite feedback, or add their own notes at any time.

Grading free-text writing is one of the most time-consuming parts of teaching with homework. A teacher with 30 students who each submitted a 10-question homework set is looking at 300 individual written responses to read, score, and comment on. In practice, that means feedback gets delayed, or it gets thin, or it doesn't happen at all.

Auto-scoring changes the workflow from "grade everything from scratch" to "review and adjust." The AI handles the first pass — scoring responses and drafting feedback — and the teacher acts as the editor. For responses that are clearly correct, there's nothing to do. For responses that need nuance, the teacher refines the score or rewrites the feedback. The result is faster turnaround, more consistent feedback, and more time for the instructional work that actually requires a human.

This is a teacher tool, not a student-facing one. Students never see scores or feedback until the teacher releases them. The AI works for the teacher, not in place of them, so teachers retain full control over what their students receive.

Teacher Guides are lesson companions for planning and adapting Off2Class lessons.

• November 5, 2025: Teacher Guides launch for three curriculum tracks, with step-by-step instructions, differentiation tips and engagement strategies.

This release covers:

• Step-by-Step Curriculum Newcomers.
• Step-by-Step Curriculum for Schools Beginner.
• Step-by-Step Curriculum for Schools Upper Beginner.

Use the guides to adapt a lesson to your students' needs. The instructions, differentiation tips and engagement strategies support your lesson preparation.

Unit Checks are end-of-unit assessments that measure understanding of the lessons within each unit.

• February 3, 2025: You can assign 112 new Unit Checks across Foundational Literacy, Core Curriculum and Business English.

Every unit in these three programs has a Unit Check:

• Foundational Literacy: 12 Unit Checks.
• Core Curriculum: 60 Unit Checks.
• Business English: 40 Unit Checks.

You can check students' understanding of the lessons within each completed unit. The release adds assessment coverage across all units of these three programs.

• December 3, 2024: WIDA ACCESS Reading adds six new lessons, Lessons 1–6, preparing students for the reading component.
• December 3, 2024: WIDA ACCESS Listening adds six new lessons, Lessons 1–6, preparing students for the listening component.
• December 6, 2024: WIDA ACCESS Speaking adds six new lessons, Lessons 1–6, preparing students for the speaking component.
• December 6, 2024: WIDA ACCESS Writing adds six new lessons, Lessons 1–6, preparing students for the writing component.

You can prepare students for each ACCESS component with a dedicated set of lessons.

• November 28, 2024: Core Curriculum Social Studies adds 12 new lessons across six units, Units 7–12.
• November 28, 2024: Core Curriculum Science includes 24 new and updated lessons across 12 units. Units 7–12 are new. Units 1–6 have been updated to be less content-heavy.

Both subjects cover language and skills for Pre-Intermediate English Learners in their subject classrooms.

You can teach academic language for science and social studies with subject-specific lessons.

The Science expansion adds units while reducing content density in Units 1–6.

• September 27, 2024: The Beginner release adds 36 new lessons across 12 units, Units 1–12.
• September 27, 2024: The Upper Beginner release adds 48 new lessons across 12 units, Units 13–24.

Both levels contain speaking, reading, listening and writing tasks. Vocabulary and objectives resources accompany the curriculum.

• October 8, 2024: Secondary School Curriculum is renamed Step-by-Step Curriculum for Schools.

You can teach all four language domains through lessons written for secondary school students at these two proficiency levels.

• August 22, 2024: Core Curriculum Language Arts adds 12 new lessons across six units, Units 7–12.
• August 22, 2024: Core Curriculum Mathematics includes 24 new and updated lessons across 12 units. Units 7–12 are new. Units 1–6 have been updated to be less content-heavy.

Both subjects cover language and skills for Pre-Intermediate English Learners in their subject classrooms.

You can teach academic language for language arts and mathematics with subject-specific lessons.

The Mathematics expansion adds units while reducing content density in Units 1–6.

• March 30, 2024: Foundational Literacy adds 24 new lessons across Units 1–6.
• May 31, 2024: Foundational Literacy adds 24 new lessons across Units 7–12.

The Absolute Beginner series covers basic reading, writing and literacy.

You can support students who need foundational literacy skills to access other Off2Class content.

• January 26, 2024: Reading for Newcomers adds 12 Beginner lessons, R001–012.
• January 26, 2024: Speaking for Newcomers adds 12 Beginner lessons, S001–012.
• February 29, 2024: Speaking for Newcomers adds 12 Upper Beginner lessons, S101–112.
• February 29, 2024: Reading for Newcomers adds 12 Upper Beginner lessons, R125–136.

Each set covers topics and themes appropriate to its level.

You can focus on reading or speaking through standalone lessons at the level your students need.