Build a lesson

Create a set

1. In the web app, choose Exercises in the menu on the left, then Create Custom Dataset, then Create New Set. Open it
2. Choose how to start:
   • Describe a topic, such as words to order food in a restaurant or things students use in class, and Chatterbox picks the words.
   • Word list: paste the exact words you're teaching, in the language you teach, one per line or separated by commas.
   A set name is optional.
3. Select Generate words. In a few seconds, Chatterbox shows the words it chose with their translations.
4. Check the words. Edit a translation or remove a word with ✕, then select Approve and generate.
5. In about a minute, the set is ready. Every word has an example sentence and pronunciation audio, and the set has its exercises.

The set's page lists your words and every way to practise them. Open any exercise to see exactly what your students will see.

Sets are made in the language you're learning on your account. To build a set in a different language, change the flag at the top left of the web app first.

The practice your students get

A set built this way comes with more than 20 kinds of practice. Drills on the words:

FlashcardsMatchingMemoryMultiple choicePronunciationListening practiceTranslation gameLetter spellingText to translationSpeed game

And practice in sentences, written for the set when it's generated:

Sentence translationSentence reconstructionSpeech practiceFill in the blankSpell the blankConversationConversation responseReading comprehensionListening comprehensionDescribe itGuess itTranslation dialogue

How many sentence exercises a set gets varies with its words. To write your own, or to add an interactive activity designed for your lesson, use an AI assistant: see Plan with Claude or ChatGPT.

Tips

• Keep sets small and focused. Eight to fifteen words is a good homework-sized set, and you can always make another.
• Check the translations before you assign a set. You know your class's dialect and level best.
• Reuse sets across classes. Assigning a set links to it rather than copying it, so a fix you make later reaches every class.