Question 1

What is Locuto.PRO?

Accepted Answer

Locuto.PRO is a teaching platform for language educators and schools. It connects interactive lessons across 11 languages (CEFR A1–C2), built-in video calls, 35+ interactive activity types, homework management, and vocabulary practice. You can start free with your first 5 students.

Question 2

How does Locuto.PRO work?

Accepted Answer

Teachers select a topic, language, and CEFR level, and the platform helps build a complete interactive lesson with exercises, vocabulary, and explanations in minutes. Lessons are delivered through a real-time collaborative editor with built-in video calls for live sessions.

Question 3

Is Locuto.PRO free to use?

Accepted Answer

Yes - Locuto.PRO is free to start. The free plan includes course creation, student enrollment, live sessions with built-in video, homework management, and access to all 35+ exercise types. Paid plans add higher limits for lesson generation, more students, and advanced features - see our Pricing page for details.

Question 4

Can students reschedule or cancel lessons themselves?

Accepted Answer

Students can request a reschedule for individual (1:1) lessons in "Added" or "Started" status, suggesting up to 3 preferred time slots from the teacher's availability — but all reschedules require teacher approval. Class sessions cannot be rescheduled through this flow. Students can cancel lessons more than 12 hours before the scheduled time; cancellation requires a reason that is sent to the teacher as a notification.

Question 5

What does a live session look like for students?

Accepted Answer

Students join via calendar, dashboard, or notification link. The session includes video/audio on an internal conference platform, a collaborative lesson workspace where teacher and student work on exercises simultaneously in real time, screen sharing, and group chat. After the session, the student keeps their own copy of the lesson to annotate and rework. If the teacher recorded the class, students who missed it can replay the full video inside the platform.

Question 6

Can I control what students see during a live lesson?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Teachers sync audio and video playback to all students in real time — play, pause, seek, and speed changes apply to everyone. There is also an edit permission toggle: a green pencil icon lets the student type in the shared document, a red pencil-off icon locks them to read-only.

Question 7

Where is Locuto.PRO based?

Accepted Answer

Locuto.PRO was founded in 2024 and is headquartered in Warsaw, Poland. The platform serves language teachers and schools worldwide, with interface localization in English, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Spanish, Czech, German, and French.

Question 8

What languages does Locuto.PRO support?

Accepted Answer

The platform supports lesson creation across 11 languages (including English, Polish, German, French, Spanish, and Czech) for CEFR levels A1 to C2. The interface is available in 8 languages.

Question 9

How does homework grading work — is everything graded manually?

Accepted Answer

Multiple choice, matching, and fill-in-the-blank exercises are graded automatically. For essays and speaking tasks, AI grading based on assignment criteria or manual teacher review is available, with support for detailed feedback.

Question 10

Does student progress save automatically?

Accepted Answer

Yes — exercise answers save immediately and general progress saves every 60 seconds. If a timed lesson expires, answers are preserved as-is. Students can resume any lesson from the point they left off.

Question 11

How does vocabulary practice work?

Accepted Answer

Students can have up to 3 vocabulary lists per language. Words are added from the Vocabulary page or inline during a lesson by selecting text and choosing "Translate selected." Practice uses spaced repetition at cards.locuto.pro — struggling words appear more often, mastered words less frequently.

Question 12

How do classes work for scheduling?

Accepted Answer

Classes are named collections tied to a specific course. Class live sessions include per-student attendance tracking. Teachers can score each student across 7 skill dimensions (speaking, listening, reading, writing, grammar, vocabulary, engagement) per lesson. Classes support recurring sessions (daily, weekly, biweekly) and have a statistics tab with attendance tiers — Perfect (>90%), Regular (70–90%), Irregular (40–70%), At Risk (above 0% but under 40%), and Absent (0%).

Question 13

Can I use Locuto.PRO for timed exams?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Every lesson has a configurable time limit (up to 480 minutes). When time expires, all widgets lock automatically and answers are preserved. The timer only runs while the browser tab is active — switching tabs pauses it.

Question 14

Can multiple teachers edit the same lesson at the same time?

Accepted Answer

Yes. The editor merges simultaneous edits automatically, so teachers can work in the same lesson without overwriting each other. Each collaborator gets a colored live cursor with their name, and changes appear on other screens near-instantly.

Question 15

Can the platform create audio and images inside a lesson?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Listening sections can use generated dialogue or monologue scripts and convert them to audio with configurable voices and emotional tags. Image sections can create visual assets during the lesson preparation flow and store them with the lesson.

Question 16

What does the editor look like for students vs. teachers?

Accepted Answer

Teachers see the full editor with toolbar, smart tools, annotations, comments, and drag-and-drop reordering. Students see a clean view with lesson content and interactive exercises - no editing tools, teacher annotations, or comments. The mode switches automatically based on the user's role.

Question 17

Do I have to move all my material across before I can start?

Accepted Answer

No. Take one lesson and one text of your own, and Ask AI will build exercises from it — you will see how this works in an evening. The rest moves across when you need it, not all at once.

Question 18

What happens when I use a saved lesson template?

Accepted Answer

Locuto creates a new independent draft with the template’s layout, steps, settings and content. Editing the draft does not change the template, and later template changes do not alter lessons already created from it.

Question 19

My students will delete the lesson, and I won't know what to do.

Accepted Answer

You can experiment: delete part of the material yourself and try to restore it with the tools on the lesson's top panel. If all else fails, open the same lesson from the course in a neighboring tab and move all the material into the current lesson with “Copy” → “Paste”, as in an ordinary text editor. If the fear still won't let go, enable the “Open lesson in read only mode” option in the lesson settings: students will be able to do the exercises, but they won't be able to change the lesson's content.

Question 20

I don't want to spend even five minutes preparing a lesson, let alone building a whole course.

Accepted Answer

Locuto has Instant Lessons for exactly this. Ask AI builds the exercises on the topic you need, you drop a couple of YouTube clips into the editor and paste in screenshots with memes. That is everything you need to run a fun and useful language class with your student. The Instant Lesson's material is saved in your library.

Question 21

Is lesson recording available to everyone?

Accepted Answer

Recording comes with paid plans, and a school can switch it off. Where it is available it starts from one button, the browser asks what to share, and the recording follows that share.

Question 22

What does marking cost?

Accepted Answer

Closed exercises — matching, gaps, choices, ordering — are marked instantly and free. AI credits are only spent on analysing free-text answers, essays, writing and speech, and the estimated price is shown before anything is charged.

Question 23

I work on my own, without a school. Is this for me?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Courses, classes and schools are optional layers — you can run a one-off lesson with no course at all. School pages appear only if you work in a school, and that changes nothing about preparing or running lessons.

Question 24

I have marked everything — why hasn't my student got a certificate?

Accepted Answer

There are two queues. The homework list shows what is waiting for your mark, while the AI's assessments gather in a second queue, “Assessment checks”. While a check is still open there, no certificate is issued, even when every piece of homework has been marked.

Question 25

Can we start with one teacher or one course?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Start with a single teacher or course, invite a few students, and expand when you are ready. There is no large migration required to begin, and the free plan lets you try the workflow first.

Question 26

Do teachers have to rebuild all their materials?

Accepted Answer

No. Teachers keep their own method and can reuse existing materials, build new interactive lessons, or start from ready-made ones in the marketplace. AI drafts a lesson in minutes, but the teacher stays in control of the final version.

Question 27

What happens to our existing students and courses?

Accepted Answer

You bring students in by invite link, email, or direct enrollment, and organize them into courses and classes. Moving a student between teachers preserves their lesson history, progress, scores, and vocabulary, so nothing is lost in the handoff.

Question 28

Can students join smoothly?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Students join with a single-use invite code or link tied to the right school, role, and course, with no manual setup on their side. They land directly in your branded workspace.

Question 29

Does this replace Zoom, Google Classroom, or our LMS?

Accepted Answer

Live video classes with breakout rooms, a shared whiteboard, homework, materials, recordings, and progress are all built in, so most schools replace several tools at once. You can also run Locuto.PRO alongside what you have and migrate gradually.

Question 30

How do data and privacy work for our school?

Accepted Answer

Your school runs in its own branded workspace, and student data stays attached to your school. The platform is GDPR-aligned, and removing a student archives their records rather than deleting them, so progress can be restored if they return.

Question 31

How does the per-student rate work?

Accepted Answer

Each band's rate applies only to the active students inside that band. The estimator adds the bands up for the seat count you enter. The first {freeStudents} active students are free; after that, graduated rates and a {minimumInvoice} monthly minimum apply.

Question 32

What counts as a student?

Accepted Answer

A student is anyone enrolled in one of your courses. The same person enrolled in multiple courses still counts as one student toward your plan limit.

Question 33

How is AI lesson creation priced?

Accepted Answer

Lesson content is charged per generated section. Images and audio are billed separately; you can see their current costs in the table below before you spend anything.

Question 34

What happens when I use up my monthly allowance for the advanced tools?

Accepted Answer

You can keep using supported advanced tools and pay the listed price only when you use them. Costs vary by feature and are shown in the table below before you are charged. Your existing lessons and courses stay yours to reuse.

Question 35

How do school subscriptions work?

Accepted Answer

A school pays from the same per-student scale. Teachers and admins are included, while enterprise contracts and white-label services are handled through sales. A branded Locuto.PRO subdomain is free; a custom domain costs {customDomainPrice} per month.

Question 36

Is there a discount for annual billing?

Accepted Answer

The commitment term and the saving are shown beside the estimator. The discounted amount is still invoiced monthly.

Question 37

How does pay-as-you-go pricing work, and what does everything cost?

Accepted Answer

Optional tools are charged in dollars only when you use them. The minimum top-up, top-up bonuses, free-plan allowance, and per-feature prices are all shown on this page. Paid self-study plans for students start at {studentPlanPrice} per month.

Question 38

Do unused funds expire?

Accepted Answer

Funds you add stay separate from monthly plan allowances and do not expire while your account remains active. Amounts already spent on generation or other pay-as-you-go tools cannot be returned; contact support for payment-specific questions.

Question 39

Do the prices include VAT?

Accepted Answer

All prices shown are net (VAT excluded). Any applicable VAT is calculated and added at checkout based on your billing location, and you receive a VAT invoice. EU business customers can enter their VAT ID during checkout to apply the reverse-charge mechanism.

Question 40

Does Educator Paid include unlimited Cards for the whole school?

Accepted Answer

Yes. While the school's Educator Paid plan remains effective, every active member — across all school roles — gets unlimited Cards training in supported web and mobile apps. Access follows that person's account, but does not expand access to school data and does not include Premium Season Pass rewards.

Question 41

What types of lessons does the platform support?

Accepted Answer

Three types: Class (live synchronous sessions), Homework (requires teacher review), and Exercise (independent practice). Locuto.PRO supports 35+ interactive activity types: multiple choice, fill in blanks, matching, sentence builder, speech recording, vocabulary games, short brain breaks, and a shared whiteboard.

Question 42

How does audio and video playback work during a live lesson?

Accepted Answer

Playback belongs to the whole room, not to one person. When anyone plays, pauses, seeks or changes the speed, everyone else's player follows in real time — so nobody ends up listening to a different second of the recording. What is yours alone are the limits: you can cap how many times a recording may be played, and block rewinding in exam mode.

Question 43

Can I switch to a different lesson mid-session without ending the video call?

Accepted Answer

Yes, in both individual and class sessions. Click the "Lesson Library" book icon in the toolbar, search by name or type, and click "Open Here" to load a different lesson. The video call continues uninterrupted. Click "Return to Session Lesson" to go back.

Question 44

How does the platform handle student notifications during class sessions?

Accepted Answer

When a student joins a live lesson, the teacher gets a green toast notification showing the student's name, plus an audio chime. Each joining student triggers a separate arrival notification that auto-dismisses after 5 seconds. The video call dock auto-resizes as participants join or leave.

Question 45

Can I lock a student's exercises during a live session?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Teachers can turn on read-only mode for a student using the lock icon in the participant bar. This freezes interactive widgets with a visual overlay and shows a blue banner. The lock also turns on automatically when a student's time limit expires.

Question 46

What happens if I can't finish a lesson during a live session?

Accepted Answer

Choose "Continue this lesson" in the lesson completion sheet. The next scheduled session loads the document, exercises, and student answers from where you left off. You can chain continuations across multiple sessions.

Question 47

Can students who missed a live class watch a recording?

Accepted Answer

Yes. The teacher can record the full live lesson — shared screen, cameras, and audio — as a single video. Students who missed the class replay it right inside the platform, so nobody falls behind the class. Recording is teacher-initiated, and downloading the video stays restricted to teachers and school admins.

Question 48

How do students join a course?

Accepted Answer

The most common method is an invite code from the teacher — the student enters it on their "My Enrollments" page and is enrolled immediately. Alternatively, students can browse the Teacher Directory, click "Request to Join," and describe their level; the teacher reviews and enrolls them.

Question 49

Can I assign homework directly from the calendar?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Click a class lesson on the Schedule calendar, and the Edit Lesson dialog shows checkboxes for each available homework and exercise. Check a box to assign it; uncheck to remove. Rescheduling a parent class lesson automatically moves all attached homework and exercises.

Question 50

How do students track their learning progress?

Accepted Answer

The student dashboard shows a statistics card per active course with lessons completed (broken down by class, exercise, and homework) as a count and percentage. Each completed lesson displays correct/incorrect percentages plus total attempts. The Vocabulary page adds four stat cards: Total words, Learning, Learned, and Skipped.

Question 51

What options do I have for creating homework content?

Accepted Answer

Three methods. Create from scratch using the lesson editor with any exercise type. Pick from the exercise library (grammar, vocabulary, reading comprehension, writing, speaking, mixed). Or use automated generation and specify topic, exercise types, difficulty, and question count — AI credit cost depends on content length and exercise count (see the pricing page for details).

Question 52

What does a live session look like for students?

Accepted Answer

Students join via calendar, dashboard, or notification link. The session includes video/audio on an internal conference platform, a collaborative workspace where teacher and student work on exercises simultaneously, screen sharing, and group chat. After the session, the student keeps their own copy.

Question 53

Can teachers give video feedback on homework?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Teachers can use the class recorder while reviewing a student's homework: share the screen, talk through the corrections, and the student replays the walkthrough as personal video feedback — much richer than a written note alone.

Question 54

How do cost overrides work if I want to price courses differently?

Accepted Answer

Costs resolve in a three-tier priority: enrollment-level (per-student) overrides course-level, which overrides the organization default. You can set a special rate for a scholarship student without changing prices for others, or charge more for premium courses.

Question 55

Can I track whether my organization is running low on AI credit?

Accepted Answer

School admins can set a low balance threshold in school settings. When a student's balance drops below that threshold after a transaction, both the student and all school admins receive an in-app notification. Students can set their own personal threshold that overrides the school default.

Question 56

Can courses be public or private?

Accepted Answer

There is no limit on the number of courses. Each course has its own per-lesson, per-homework, and per-exercise cost that overrides organization defaults. Courses support a Draft status for building content before publishing. Students join courses through invite codes or join requests.

Question 57

Who pays for the Ask AI assistant?

Accepted Answer

Ask AI runs on the student's own plan, so nothing is billed to the teacher or school. Every student gets free monthly AI credit to start, and paid student plans include larger monthly allowances. A typical question uses only a small amount of AI credit, so one allowance covers many in-lesson questions. Students get instant, lesson-aware answers about grammar and vocabulary the moment they're stuck.

Question 58

Do students need a subscription to use Locuto.PRO?

Accepted Answer

No - students can access teacher-assigned lessons, homework, exercises, and live sessions without a subscription. Optional student plans add self-study materials, lesson assistant help, unlimited Cards vocabulary training, and assessment credits for writing and speaking. See our Pricing page for plan details.

Question 59

Can I learn a language on Locuto.PRO without a teacher?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Students can generate self-study lessons on any topic, practice vocabulary with spaced repetition in the Cards game, and purchase ready-made materials from the Marketplace - including exam preparation packages. A student subscription raises the generation limits and gives access to advanced tools for independent learning.

Question 60

What language exams can I prepare for on Locuto.PRO?

Accepted Answer

The platform supports B1 NAWA (Polish state exam) and Polish B1-B2 telc preparation with official task types for listening, speaking, reading, writing, and grammar sections. Exam mode locks the lesson with a countdown timer, hides feedback until submission, and auto-submits when time expires. Teachers can also build custom timed assessments for any language or level.

Question 61

How does automated assessment work for speaking and writing?

Accepted Answer

Writing submissions receive automated rubric-based feedback covering structure, grammar, vocabulary, and task completion. Speaking assessment includes pronunciation drills with phoneme-level scoring in supported languages (English, Polish, German, French) and a Live Examiner mode where an adaptive examiner conducts a role-play conversation and evaluates the student's responses. Assessment uses credits from the student's subscription plan.

Question 62

Can I get help while studying on my own?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Ask AI works in self-study and marketplace lessons too. It sees the lesson you have open, so you can ask about a grammar rule, a word, or what an exercise wants from you — and get an answer that matches your material, in seconds. Each question uses a small amount of AI credit from your own plan.

Question 63

Can a student learn with more than one school?

Accepted Answer

Yes. On the main Locuto host, a student can see their own lessons and courses from more than one school. There is no selected “current school”: every school-backed item identifies its school, and each action stays attached to that item. A school with its own domain keeps its private workspace on that domain.

Question 64

What does the teacher onboarding process look like?

Accepted Answer

After redeeming an invite code, the teacher completes a profile with teaching languages, years of experience, certifications (CELTA, DELTA, TESOL, etc.), teaching style description, and an optional intro video URL. They set availability status to Available, Busy, or Not Accepting. A school admin can verify completion from the teacher detail view.

Frequently Asked Questions

Getting Started

Platform & Features

Live Teaching

Homework & Students

Billing & AI credit

Self-Study & Students

School Administration

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Frequently Asked Questions

Getting Started

What is Locuto.PRO?

How does Locuto.PRO work?

Is Locuto.PRO free to use?

What types of lessons does the platform support?

Platform & Features

How does homework grading work — is everything graded manually?

Does student progress save automatically?

How does vocabulary practice work?

How do classes work for scheduling?

Can I use Locuto.PRO for timed exams?

Can multiple teachers edit the same lesson at the same time?

Can the platform create audio and images inside a lesson?

What does the editor look like for students vs. teachers?

Where is Locuto.PRO based?

What languages does Locuto.PRO support?

Live Teaching

What does a live session look like for students?

Can I control what students see during a live lesson?

Do I have to move all my material across before I can start?

What happens when I use a saved lesson template?

My students will delete the lesson, and I won't know what to do.

I don't want to spend even five minutes preparing a lesson, let alone building a whole course.

Is lesson recording available to everyone?

What does marking cost?

I work on my own, without a school. Is this for me?

I have marked everything — why hasn't my student got a certificate?

How does audio and video playback work during a live lesson?

Can I switch to a different lesson mid-session without ending the video call?

How does the platform handle student notifications during class sessions?

Can I lock a student's exercises during a live session?

What happens if I can't finish a lesson during a live session?

Can students who missed a live class watch a recording?

Homework & Students

Can students reschedule or cancel lessons themselves?

How do students join a course?

Can I assign homework directly from the calendar?

How do students track their learning progress?

What options do I have for creating homework content?

What does a live session look like for students?

Can teachers give video feedback on homework?

Billing & AI credit

How does the per-student rate work?

What counts as a student?

How is AI lesson creation priced?

What happens when I use up my monthly allowance for the advanced tools?

How do school subscriptions work?

Is there a discount for annual billing?

How does pay-as-you-go pricing work, and what does everything cost?

Do unused funds expire?

Do the prices include VAT?

Does Educator Paid include unlimited Cards for the whole school?

How do cost overrides work if I want to price courses differently?

Can I track whether my organization is running low on AI credit?

Can courses be public or private?

Who pays for the Ask AI assistant?

Self-Study & Students

Do students need a subscription to use Locuto.PRO?

Can I learn a language on Locuto.PRO without a teacher?

What language exams can I prepare for on Locuto.PRO?

How does automated assessment work for speaking and writing?

Can I get help while studying on my own?

Can a student learn with more than one school?

School Administration

Can we start with one teacher or one course?

Do teachers have to rebuild all their materials?

What happens to our existing students and courses?

Can students join smoothly?

Does this replace Zoom, Google Classroom, or our LMS?

How do data and privacy work for our school?

What does the teacher onboarding process look like?

Can a teacher who already has a student account join my school?

How do I reassign a student from one teacher to another?

What happens when I update a lesson that students have already started?

How does the availability and scheduling system work?

What analytics do I get for classes?

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