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Teachers make nearly 1,500 decisions a day but are often left out when it comes to the choices that impact their students the most . At Duolingo, we take a different approach—one that includes teachers by seeking feedback, listening to their expertise, and adjusting our product to better serve students all over the world!

Recently, Duolingo introduced a new learning path to replace the previous home screen design. This update ensures that each step users take in Duolingo is the best step to help them achieve their language goals.

We knew this change could be a challenging adjustment for our teachers, who had already been trained on the previous design. But we saw this as an opportunity, and asked ourselves…

How can we use this change as a chance to improve the experience teachers have with our product?

To answer that question, we formed a coalition of teachers who agreed to test out the updates before they went live. We met with these teachers weekly to learn what was working for them, and what wasn’t.

Teachers wanted increased visibility into learning objectives and lesson content along with deeper insights into student learning.

We agreed that these were important features! So we implemented a variety of changes to our product that will be available soon, including:

• Unit summaries, complete with learning objectives, grammar descriptors, and Guidebooks with explicit tips to enrich student learning
• Student progress views that allow teachers to see overall course progress, as well as more individualized insights like time spent on task and assignment scores
• Classroom Leaderboards that give students a fun way to motivate one another through classroom competitions

We are confident that these changes will allow for greater depth of learning in language classrooms, and we’re so grateful for the continued partnership of teachers. We are excited to continue improving with their help!

Want to see the new features we built alongside teachers? Create a Duolingo for Schools classroom today!

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Big changes coming for school classrooms: Assign tab gets removed, accounts will get forced updates

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Post by Thomas.Heiss » Tue Jan 02, 2024 12:26 am

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Changes to Duolingo for Schools in December 2023 What : In December 2023, we’ll be removing several features from the Duolingo for Schools dashboard, including content-specific assignments and the Assign tab (the path view). Teachers will still be able to create XP assignments, view student activity, access the progress view, download a CSV report, and use classroom leaderboards. Teachers and students will also continue to have an ads- and hearts-free experience. Why : The team at Duolingo is quite small, especially when you consider how many people around the world are learning on the app. Right now, all of our product resources are invested in improving that learning experience, and those improvements are happening fast and show no sign of slowing (check out Duocon if you haven’t!). It’s very hard to make those improvements while excluding anyone who owns or is in a classroom. But when we don’t exclude Duolingo for Schools teachers and students, some parts of the experience breaks because suddenly teachers and students who are in the same classroom have different versions of the app. This includes some of the issues that many of you faced over the past months, like students seeing different content or having work not count toward an assignment, content-specific assignments not working, progress views breaking, etc.). We are removing the aspects of the Duolingo for Schools dashboard that have trouble working when students and teachers in the same classroom have different versions of the app (listed above) so that students and teachers do NOT need to be excluded from Duolingo updates as they are rolled out. This also means that students’ and teachers’ accounts may look different , even if they’re in the same classroom!!! We understand that this may alter, in some cases dramatically , the way that you use Duolingo with your students. We will work to update our resources to focus on using Duolingo as a self-paced tool . We also hope that, if you haven’t already, you’ll join our amazing group of teachers who ask and answer questions, and share implementation ideas and resources in our Educators Network on Facebook.

Change the hostname of your AL2 instance

When you launch an instance into a private VPC, Amazon EC2 assigns a guest OS hostname. The type of hostname that Amazon EC2 assigns depends on your subnet settings. For more information about EC2 hostnames, see Amazon EC2 instance hostname types in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances .

A typical Amazon EC2 private DNS name for an EC2 instance configured to use IP-based naming with an IPv4 address looks something like this: ip-12-34-56-78.us-west-2.compute.internal , where the name consists of the internal domain, the service (in this case, compute ), the region, and a form of the private IPv4 address. Part of this hostname is displayed at the shell prompt when you log into your instance (for example, ip-12-34-56-78 ). Each time you stop and restart your Amazon EC2 instance (unless you are using an Elastic IP address), the public IPv4 address changes, and so does your public DNS name, system hostname, and shell prompt.

This information applies to Amazon Linux. For information about other distributions, see their specific documentation.

Change the system hostname

If you have a public DNS name registered for the IP address of your instance (such as webserver.mydomain.com ), you can set the system hostname so your instance identifies itself as a part of that domain. This also changes the shell prompt so that it displays the first portion of this name instead of the hostname supplied by AWS (for example, ip-12-34-56-78 ). If you do not have a public DNS name registered, you can still change the hostname, but the process is a little different.

In order for your hostname update to persist, you must verify that the preserve_hostname cloud-init setting is set to true . You can run the following command to edit or add this setting:

If the preserve_hostname setting is not listed, add the following line of text to the end of the file:

To change the system hostname to a public DNS name

Follow this procedure if you already have a public DNS name registered.

For AL2: Use the hostnamectl command to set your hostname to reflect the fully qualified domain name (such as webserver.mydomain.com ).

For Amazon Linux AMI: On your instance, open the /etc/sysconfig/network configuration file in your favorite text editor and change the HOSTNAME entry to reflect the fully qualified domain name (such as webserver.mydomain.com ).

Reboot the instance to pick up the new hostname.

Alternatively, you can reboot using the Amazon EC2 console (on the Instances page, select the instance and choose Instance state , Reboot instance ).

Log into your instance and verify that the hostname has been updated. Your prompt should show the new hostname (up to the first ".") and the hostname command should show the fully-qualified domain name.

To change the system hostname without a public DNS name

For AL2: Use the hostnamectl command to set your hostname to reflect the desired system hostname (such as webserver ).

For Amazon Linux AMI: On your instance, open the /etc/sysconfig/network configuration file in your favorite text editor and change the HOSTNAME entry to reflect the desired system hostname (such as webserver ).

Open the /etc/hosts file in your favorite text editor and change the entry beginning with 127.0.0.1 to match the example below, substituting your own hostname.

You can also implement more programmatic solutions, such as specifying user data to configure your instance. If your instance is part of an Auto Scaling group, you can use lifecycle hooks to define user data. For more information, see Run commands on your Linux instance at launch and Lifecycle hook for instance launch in the AWS CloudFormation User Guide .

Change the shell prompt without affecting the hostname

If you do not want to modify the hostname for your instance, but you would like to have a more useful system name (such as webserver ) displayed than the private name supplied by AWS (for example, ip-12-34-56-78 ), you can edit the shell prompt configuration files to display your system nickname instead of the hostname.

To change the shell prompt to a host nickname

Create a file in /etc/profile.d that sets the environment variable called NICKNAME to the value you want in the shell prompt. For example, to set the system nickname to webserver , run the following command.

Open the /etc/bashrc (Red Hat) or /etc/bash.bashrc (Debian/Ubuntu) file in your favorite text editor (such as vim or nano ). You need to use sudo with the editor command because /etc/bashrc and /etc/bash.bashrc are owned by root .

Edit the file and change the shell prompt variable ( PS1 ) to display your nickname instead of the hostname. Find the following line that sets the shell prompt in /etc/bashrc or /etc/bash.bashrc (several surrounding lines are shown below for context; look for the line that starts with [ "$PS1" ):

Change the \h (the symbol for hostname ) in that line to the value of the NICKNAME variable.

(Optional) To set the title on shell windows to the new nickname, complete the following steps.

Create a file named /etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-xterm .

Make the file executable using the following command.

Open the /etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-xterm file in your favorite text editor (such as vim or nano ). You need to use sudo with the editor command because /etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-xterm is owned by root .

Add the following line to the file.

Log out and then log back in to pick up the new nickname value.

Change the hostname on other Linux distributions

The procedures on this page are intended for use with Amazon Linux only. For more information about other Linux distributions, see their specific documentation and the following articles:

How do I assign a static hostname to a private Amazon EC2 instance running RHEL 7 or Centos 7?

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