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Latest release May 2026
v2.0.0

A LinguaVerse of Possibilities

Think about how much of what you teach, you built yourself. The reading you wrote because nothing out there quite fit your unit. The speaking prompt you tinkered with for three years until it finally landed. Every language teacher has a whole drawer of these — and almost no good way to share them. LinguaVerse is here to change that: a place where language teachers can hand each other the good stuff, so you never have to start from a blank page alone again.

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Previous releases

v1.10.0·May 2026

Oral Assessments: Presentation, Conversation, and the Full IB-Style Combined Exam

Speaking isn't one skill — it's at least three. A student who can deliver a polished two-minute speech might still freeze when asked a follow-up question, and the one who chats easily can fall apart the moment a topic gets formal. With v1.10.0, Oral Assignments expand from a single recording into three full formats: a clean presentation, a live AI conversation, and an IB-style combined exam that runs both back to back in one sitting.

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v1.9.0·May 2026

Voice Chat Assignments: Real Conversations in the Target Language

You've seen it a hundred times. A student aces the vocab quiz, writes a beautiful paragraph, and then on speaking day they stare at their feet. They know the words — they just can't get them out. With v1.9.0, Voice Chat Assignments give every student in your class their own patient conversation partner, available any night, ready to talk for as long as they need.

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v1.8.0·May 2026

Teacher Grading Tools: Rubrics, Curves, & More

Grading is where teaching either compounds or collapses. The right rubric makes feedback consistent across thirty students; the wrong one buries you in second-guessing every score. With v1.8.0, the whole grading workflow gets handed back to you — build the rubric the way you grade, dial the AI toward your style, curve a tough assignment in one click, and override any score with a note attached.

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v1.7.0·May 2026

Oral Assignments: Speak, Record, Get Real Feedback

Speaking is the moment of truth in any language class. It's also the hardest skill to give every student a fair shot at practicing — and the most painful to grade at scale. With v1.7.0, students record themselves answering a prompt and get a full rubric score with written feedback in seconds. No fishing for a quiet recording spot, no thirty audio files to wade through, no late nights with headphones on.

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v1.6.0·May 2026

Listening Assignments: Authentic Audio, Real Comprehension

How many hours have you spent scrolling YouTube for audio that's almost right for tomorrow's lesson? Slow enough for your beginners but not boring, on-topic but not stilted, the right length, the right voices? With v1.6.0, you stop hunting. You describe what you want, we build the audio, and the comprehension questions get graded automatically.

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v1.5.0·May 2026

Reading Assignments: Real Comprehension, Real Engagement

We've all assigned a reading and gotten back a class's worth of "yeah I read it" — followed by a discussion where it becomes painfully obvious that maybe four of them actually did. With v1.5.0, Reading Assignments give your students something to actually do with a text, and give you a clear, honest picture of who understood it, who skimmed, and who needs another pass.

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v1.4.0·April 2026

Custom Chat Assignments: Conversations With Anyone

Language and culture aren't really separable, are they? The best units of your year are the ones where students walk away feeling like they actually understand something about the world the language belongs to. With v1.4.0, you can build chat assignments around any speaker you can imagine — a chef from Oaxaca, a Resistance fighter in 1944 Paris, a marine biologist working off the coast of Cádiz.

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v1.3.0·April 2026

Writing Assignments: Instant Feedback on Every Paper

We've all been there. It's Sunday night, there's a stack of thirty essays staring at you, and you know the kids who'd benefit most from your written comments are the ones who'll glance at the grade and stuff the paper in their backpack. So you do it anyway, because that's the job. With v1.3.0, every writing assignment gets a full evaluation — including line-by-line corrections — the second they hit submit.

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v1.3.0·April 2026

Secure Testing Mode: Integrity Without Extra Software

You design a quiz, you write the questions, you grade the results — and the whole time, in the back of your head, you're wondering how many students just had Gemini open in a sidebar. It's an awful feeling. With v1.3.0, Secure Testing Mode is a single toggle that quietly handles the cheating most online quizzes can't see.

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v1.1.0·March 2026

Chat Assignments: Every Student Gets a Conversation

Every language teacher knows the truth about conversation: it's where the real learning happens. It's also the thing you can never give enough of. With twenty-five kids and forty-five minutes, the math just doesn't work. Chat Assignments give every student in your class a real, sustained, one-on-one conversation in the target language — on their own time, without taking a minute from your lesson.

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