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The English Language Community on WiZiQ

Within languages, English language learning is probably the most important. Literature worldwide and majority of online classes, practice tests, educational tutorials and learning requests indicate that as well. Hence, the need for a dedicated community for English language learning.

If you are a teacher or a learner or an English language enthusiast, you might want to check out the English Language Community on WiZiQ at a convenient URL : http://english.wiziq.com/ The community already has more than 1500 members and is growing at a good pace. When you join this community, you get access to all upcoming classes, practice tests and educational tutorials related to learning English speaking, writing, reading, and listening at one place, and also a chance to participate in lively and active discussions. Some of the active discussions include Check the Spellings, Vocabulary: Daily Inputs and What is the quickest way to learn English?

Tip for Teachers: To see your class, test or tutorial listed in the English Language Community - just add the keyword "English" in the keywords/tags field.

Your own Profile Link and New Improved Profile Pages

Learning and teaching on WiZiQ is teacher centric. Teachers and learners are real people. We have encouraged teachers to use their real names [and photos] to connect with the learners they know already, or they come to know through WiZiQ. The knowledge that you are dealing with a real person [whose identity you know] helps to create a trusted environment for learners. Hence, we have always had your first name and last name in the URL. However, the URLs were long and thereby, difficult to share and post on the Web. This has now changed.

Premium members on WiZiQ can now choose and create your own WiZiQ profile link when you go to edit your profile [see second heading : WiZiQ Profile Link, remember to sign in to your WiZiQ account to access this link]. We have also revamped the profile design with all your latest public activity listed on your profile - making it a more consolidated showcase of your teaching expertise. More changes and additions are coming soon in the public profile.

Hence, instead of http://www.wiziq.com/tutor-profile/43887-nidhi-english-teacher you can simply type http://www.wiziq.com/Nidhi

You can only use alphabets and digits in your profile link [special characters or symbols are not compatible]. Your profile link should have at least 3 characters. Also, you will not be able to change your profile link after you choose one. Hence, think carefully about the profile link you choose. If you choose a name that is an attempt at squatting on a brand name or something that is not suitable for young audiences [profanity, abuse, swear words], we can edit your profile link ourselves.

Creating your own profile link on WiZiQ is completely optional. However, we recommend that you create one now. Creating a profile link will give you a distinct Web address for your profile. Hence, anyone can just enter http://www.wiziq.com/yourname/ and access your profile. This way, learners and your contacts will have an easy way to find you. It would also be easier to remember as well as share and post on the Web. The rest of your profile including your name would remain as it is.

The e-Teaching Community on WiZiQ

If you are a teacher and haven't already joined the e-teaching community on WiZiQ, then we recommend you do so now. Here is why:

• 1000 plus teachers already registered from across the world
• You can participate in the lively discussions on various aspects related to online teaching and teaching in general. The recent discussions include : Online Learning vs. Classroom Learning, Do you think online tutoring in India is a sustainable business proposition and Tandem Teaching.
• The discussion forum also doubles up as a news source on latest events. Here are two you might find interesting: Twitter and Teachers : A Mini Workshop and Invitation to Research 2.0: New Technologies for Scholarship. To stay updated with online teaching news and events, we recommend that you join the community.
• You can also see the latest classes and tutorials on online teaching. Here are some you might find interesting:
• • To Tweet or Not To Tweet : Twitter for Teachers by Kirsten Winkler
  • Twitter, Expertise and You : Presentation by Alexandre Enkerli
  • Twitter for Teachers by Enza Antenos-Conforti
  • ETCon 2 Conference : Presentation by Bernhard Niesner, Busuu.com
  • ETCon 2 Conference : Presentation by Kevin Chen, iTalki.com
  • ETCon 2 Conference : Presentation by Jason West
  • Make Money Online – Teach and Earn
  • More Visibility : Enter Right Titles, Keywords and Description
    • More tutorials and many more classes - at the e-teaching community on WiZiQ. The direct URL of the community is http://e-teaching.wiziq.com/

Build and Download Recording of Public Online Classes Temporarily Unavailable

WiZiQ is trying a new recording architecture which would allow you to play/ pause recording at any step and eventually even edit the recording. We have migrated all the free and paid public classes to this architecture. Hence, some of the classes over the next week would not be available for Build and Download for both presenters and attendees. We plan to bring the Download Recording Feature for these recordings back soon.

Meanwhile, please go ahead and view the new recordings and please let us know your feedback

Access Educational Resources on WiZiQ in the New Public Page

Now, all students, learners, educators, teachers, experts and parents can access all the publicly listed Educational Resources [namely Online Class, Online Tests, Online Content and Learning Requests] on a revamped Public Page on WiZiQ. The URL to access this page is http://www.wiziq.com/public/ You will see all the latest upload content here. We plan to bring an option to subscribe to email alerts and RSS feeds very soon. You will also see the latest publicly listed featured online classes, content and tests here again. We have tried to keep the listings slightly conversational. If you have a suggestion for wordings of any of the listings, then please do let us know. We are working on a couple of variations and might be changing the same soon.

For those, who want to access Online Classes and are wondering what happened to the Public Classes page, you can access them at http://www.wiziq.com/classes/

Keep 03 Recordings for Free, Forever

WiZiQ allowed free members to keep their recordings for a month, after which they expired. Even if you had conducted a good webinar or wanted to keep a recording forever, there was no way you could do it. Now there is.

Free members on WiZiQ can keep 03 recording of the classes they conduct on WiZiQ, forever. You can invite people to watch it and let these recordings be a testimonial of your teaching style. These recordings are not deleted till the time you delete them. The recordings will not be available even if you upgrade to premium membership. As a free member, if you want to discard a recording and record another upcoming online class, you can do so too. You can just delete a particular recording and then select "Record this Class" from More Settings while scheduling a class.

There is no limit at attendee end however. Students/ attendees can view and access ALL the class recordings they were invited to or they signed up for [as long as the teacher has not taken back the access or if the teacher did select the record class for attendees option]. They can also download the class recordings [if allowed by premium teachers who conduct the class].

With the release of this feature, WiZiQ becomes the only platform in the world which allows you to conduct a class with up to 500 attendees for up to 02 hours, and also keep 03 of your recordings, forever, for free.