Mentor Advanced Language Laboratory

Laboratory features:

• Dividing students into freely configurable pairs, threes or fours. Up to 16 such groups can be formed.
• Work in groups:
• Dividing students into up to 16 arbitrary groups which can work on their own, distinctive tasks simultaneously. For example, the first group could have a conversation with a teacher while the rest of the st8udents could listen to an audio material or discuss within their own groups.
• Free reallocation of students between the groups.
• Quick—just by drag-and-dropping an icon—moving students between groups.
• Group conversation that can be monitored by a teacher.
• Group conversation with a teacher, transmitted to selected listeners.
• Single-student conversation with a teacher, transmitted to selected listeners.
• Single-student conversation with a group, with or without the transmitting.
• A part of a single group can converse with each other and a teacher while remaining part of the group listens.
• Work in pairs:
• Dividing students into up to 16 dialogue pairs; a member of a pair can hear only the second member of the pair. Pairs are constructed freely by seat numbers, e.g. 1+9, 5+12 etc.
• Pair dialogues with a background music.
• Pair dialogues with a teacher.
• Eavesdropping any student, pair or group.
• Conversation with a student, or a pair or group of students.
• Conversation with a student, transmitted to selected listeners (one of the groups).
• Conversation with a group, transmitted to selected listeners (one of the groups).
• Talks recorded by a software audio recorder are saved as WAV files.
• Sending an audio material from any source (audio recorder, DVD player, PC) to selected students.
• Lecturing through built-in amplifier and speakers.

Student's feature set:

• Individual work:
• Replaying an audio material given by a teacher (up to eight different audio sources can be simultaneously available). 8 separate audio inputs that can be simultaneously redirected to students.
• Replaying a teacher's lecture.
• Dialogue with a teacher.
• Dialogue with another student or a discussion with a selected group.
• Repeating expressions after a teacher's voice from a tape or a CD.
• Self-monitoring one's own pronunciation.
• Work in pairs:
• Listening in to a selected pair's talk, by a teacher.
• Conversation between a teacher and a selected pair.
• Work in groups:
• Listening to an audio material by a group.
• Listening to a teacher's lecture by a group.
• Group conversation that can be monitored by a teacher.
• Group conversation with a teacher, transmitted to selected listeners.
• Single-student conversation with a teacher, transmitted to selected listeners.
• Single-student conversation with a group, with or without the transmitting.
• Group listening in to an other group's conversation.
• Teacher's audio recorder works in every work mode of the system.
• Every mode allows a student to self-monitor his or her own voice.

Additional features:

• Work time clock.
• Connecting audio devices to a student console.
• Simultaneous listening to an audio material (from a connected source device) and class-wide information (e.g. teacher's instructions).
• Simultaneous recording of an audio material (form a connected source device) and a user's voice.
• PC connectivity.
• Dual-track software audio recorder, a licence for all the workstations:
• Simultaneous replaying of two audio files.
• Replaying an audio file while recording another audio file.
• Recording a headphones' output (e.g. an audio material or teacher's voice) and user's own voice simultaneously, as two separate tracks.
• Choose a tempo of an audio material playback; slower tempo can make it easier to understand what's being said.
• Software oscilloscope allowing audio track comparison, e.g. in order to compare recorded voice of yours to the original track.
• Marking a piece of an audio material for future use.
• Turning on and off one's own self-monitoring.
• Individual volume control for a teacher's and students' headphones.
• Student roll-call list generation.
• Assigning seat numbers to the corresponding students from a list.
• Turning on and off students' self-monitoring.
• Directing up to 8 audio channels to different groups.
• Sound overlap - a student can hear both an audio material (from any source) and a teacher who can e.g. explain some aspects of the material.
• Directing an audio output of a teacher's PC to the student consoles.
• Switching between audio sources.
• Software audio recorder can save the students' discussions as audio files.

Special features:

• Student roll-call list generation.
• Fast student list import supports most of the class register applications (SOU, XML and CSV files).
• Student list ordering by last name or console number.
• Dividing students into freely configurable pairs, threes or fours. Up to 16 such groups can be formed. A teacher decides who should be assigned to whom and it doesn't matter where student consoles are located.
• Random (system generated) creation of discussion pairs, threes or fours.
• Creating discussion groups consisting of two, three or four students sitting nearby.
• Up to 16 discussion groups can be freely created.
• Create and edit groups in the software by drag-and-dropping icons associated with given students.
• Eight programmable buttons that can be named, each restores a group distribution of students and audio sources' states.
• Up to 8 audio devices can be connected to the system. Each of the audio sources can be directed to a different group of students, meaning that up to 8 groups of students can listen to a different audio material simultaneously.
• Separate volume level adjustment for different audio inputs.
• Naming line inputs.
• Digital volume control for each of the students separately or for all students together. Meets the needs of hearing-impaired students.
• Defining an amount of software buttons associated with student consoles.
• Picking minimum and maximum quantity of groups/audio sources.

Designed to work with all the optional accessories.

Multi-Track audio recorder:

Enables simultaneous recording of sound from user consoles and groups of students. The recordings can be then replayed or emitted as an audio material to the students. It has 24 independent tracks to work with.