The form, option by option
The Educator Studio form has three parts, top to bottom: Lesson (languages, level, and unit), Story (topic, format, characters, and address), and What to practice (key words and grammar). Every option on it comes with the Educator Studio plan.
Pick the story language and your students’ language
- Under Story language, pick the language the story is written in.
- Under Student language, pick your students’ own language. Translations and word explanations are in this language.
Both are for this story only: your own Story Studio language and the app’s language stay as they are. Pick the same language for both, and the story comes without translations.
Choose a level
Under Level, choose A0, A1, A2, B1, or B2. The small i opens the Level guide, with each level’s grammar. See Levels A0 to B2.
Choose the unit for new stories
Unit decides only where new stories are filed in Stories. Pick None, one of your units in the story language, or New unit… to make one (type its name and choose Create). Opening a unit in the Stories or Words card also sets it here, so a story you generate goes into the unit you’re looking at; you can change it before you generate. The first time you open Educator Studio on a device, Unit starts on your first unit in the story language, and after that on the unit you last used.
Picking a unit that has a template fills the form with it. Changing the Story language sets Unit back to None, since a unit holds one language. See Units, tags, and lesson order.
Save a unit’s template
A template is the form’s settings saved for a unit: level, both languages, topic, format, characters, address, and grammar. Key words aren’t part of it.
- Pick the unit under Unit.
- Set up the form the way you want this unit’s stories.
- Choose Save as …’s template (with your unit’s name), which shows right under Unit. A message says “Template saved for …”.
Later, when you change the form, the same place under Unit says Changed from template. Choose Save to make the new settings the template, or Undo to go back to it.
Example
In “Unit 3: Food and drink”, an A1 dialogue on “Ordering Coffee and Pastries” comes out just right, so Elena saves it as the unit’s template. Her next stories for the unit start from it.
Can I use an older story’s settings?
Yes. In Stories, open the story’s ⋯ menu and choose Copy settings to put its settings in the form. For a story in a unit, Make this the unit’s template saves them as the template. If the unit has one already, Stichos asks first (Replace template).
Pick a topic and a format
Topic (Random, Browse, or Custom) and Format (Story or Dialogue) work as in the Story Studio. See Every option on the form.
Choose the characters and the address
Auto lets the story decide.
- Characters: Female or Male makes the main character a woman or a man (in a dialogue, the speakers). Mixed, in a dialogue only, gives at least one woman and one man.
- Address, in a dialogue only: Informal or Formal sets how the speakers say “you” to each other (in Russian, ты or вы).
Why don’t I see Address?
It shows for a dialogue only, and not where the language has one everyday “you” (Icelandic, Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish). In Korean, it starts at A2.
Add key words
Key words, the words the story must use, work as in the Story Studio: see Every option on the form. When the unit you picked has words, Use this unit’s … words replaces the key words with the unit’s list. See Words (your word lists). Key words belong to one language, so changing the story language clears them.
Require or ban a tense
Grammar, under What to practice, is folded; Level default next to it means the level’s usual grammar. Choose Grammar to open it.
- Under Tenses, choose a tense once to require it (a check mark), again to ban it (crossed out), and once more to clear it.
- Under Target constructions, choose what the story must include.
- Clear all removes every pick.
A required tense becomes the story’s main tense. A banned tense isn’t used. Each target construction appears at least once. Changing the Story language clears your picks.
Example
Elena’s A1 class has just learned the past tense. She requires “Past: Прошедшее время” and bans “Future: Будущее время”, so the story is told in the past.
Check the summary and generate
- Read the line next to the button, for example “A1 story in Russian for English speakers · 2 key words”.
- Choose Generate. It says Generating… while Stichos writes.
The story opens under the form as a draft and goes into Stories, in the unit you picked. Each story counts toward your plan’s stories, except your free tour story (Plans and limits). If a topic isn’t allowed, a Content notice opens: choose Edit topic. If a key word isn’t allowed, a message says so under the form: change the word and choose Generate again.
Related: Edit lines and publish · Units, tags, and lesson order · Words (your word lists) · Every option on the form · Plans and limits
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