Platform for Language Teachers to Post Activities and Track Student Responses

Between classes, contact with language students typically happens in the same place as everything else: WhatsApp. You send the exercise there, receive the response there, give feedback there. It works - until the day you need to remember what was sent to whom, three weeks ago, buried in dozens of other conversations.

Publishing activities for language students and tracking whether they were completed is a real need for any teacher with more than five or six students. When this happens over text messages, the workflow doesn't scale.

Why sending activities over WhatsApp creates problems

WhatsApp solves the immediate. Problems show up in the medium term.

When a student doesn't respond, you don't know if it's because they didn't see it, they're struggling, or they simply forgot. You send a follow-up message. It feels like nagging. That's not the tone you want with your student.

When you want to review the activity, you have to scroll back through the conversation, find the file, open it, read it. If the student sent a voice note, you listen to it in a different context than what the activity called for. If they sent a photo of a handwritten page, it's hard to read.

When you have ten students and send different activities to each of them on different days, any sense of who did what disappears entirely. You start relying on memory - which is the worst management system there is.

Teachers who work with schools or have larger groups feel this even more acutely. Each teacher sending their activity through their own channel, with no centralized record, and no way for a coordinator to track what's being done.

How most teachers handle it today

The most common solution is a combination of tools that were built for other purposes.

WhatsApp and WhatsApp groups are the first resource. They work for informal communication, but have no structure for pedagogical activities. There's no way to mark who responded, no organized history, no separation between personal conversation and assignments.

Google Forms solves part of the problem when the activity is objective. You create the form, send the link, see the responses in Sheets. The problem is it doesn't work for open-ended activities, it doesn't allow contextualized feedback during review, and each form becomes a loose document that needs to be tracked down later.

Email adds more formality, but students don't respond to email the same way they respond to messages. Open rates drop, response times increase, and the teacher still has to manage an inbox mixed in with everything else.

A shared Notion page shows up with more organized teachers. It works as a material repository, but it's not a channel for sending and receiving activities. The student accesses it, reads it, but the teacher doesn't know if they read it and has no structured place to receive responses.

In all of these cases, the teacher works harder than they should to do something simple: send an activity and find out if it was completed.

What's missing from these solutions

A platform for sending language learning activities needs to do a few things that none of these tools does on its own.

It needs to let the teacher publish content once and choose who receives it, without manually resending to each student. In classes with many students, or in scenarios where different teachers work with different students, this is essential.

It needs to show each student's status in relation to the activity: not started, in progress, completed. Without that, the teacher has to actively ask or try to remember.

It needs to allow the teacher to review the student's response in context, with the ability to comment directly on what was produced, without leaving the platform for another application.

It needs to link the activity to a prepared lesson, so the student has the right material when completing the proposed exercise.

And it needs to store that history. The activity sent last week, the student's response, the teacher's comment - all of it accessible later, without having to scroll through a messaging app.

How Noladi solves it

Noladi has a wall where the teacher publishes content for students: announcements, lessons, activities. Each post can be sent to a specific student or to a group of students, with a scheduled date or as an immediate publication.

When a post includes a linked lesson, the student opens the wall, opens the post, and starts their response right there. The lesson opens with the collaborative whiteboard for the student to work on, without needing to switch to another environment.

The teacher tracks progress in the Activities tab: for each student, the dashboard shows whether the lesson hasn't been started yet, is in progress, or has been completed. No need to ask. The status appears automatically.

When the student finishes, the teacher opens the response, sees what was produced on the whiteboard, and can leave a contextualized comment directly on the post. The student sees the feedback in their own dashboard, without needing to exchange messages outside the platform.

Everything is recorded: the post, the recipients, the responses, the comments. Each student's activity history is part of the teacher's dashboard, accessible whenever needed.

Discover Noladi

If you want to centralize activity assignments, response tracking, and pedagogical feedback for your language students in one place, Noladi was built for that. Get started at noladi.app/teacher.