Questions about Habla

Habla is a simple tool that lets language teachers assign, collect, and grade student speaking recordings from one link during a normal class period.

Sign in, go to your teacher dashboard, and create a class. Inside the class, click "New assignment," write your prompt, set the point value, and save. Habla generates a student link instantly. Copy it and share it however you share links with your class: Google Classroom, email, your LMS, or projected on the board.

Every assignment has a "Copy link" button. Paste it into Google Classroom, email, your LMS, or just project it. Students click the link and sign in before submitting.

No. Habla runs entirely in the browser. Teachers and students do not install anything.

Yes. Students sign in before submitting so Habla can attach the recording to the account email. Google sign-in is required in the base setup, and Microsoft sign-in is available only when the deployment is configured for it.

Students open the assignment link, sign in, enter their name, hit "Start recording," speak, stop, play it back, and hit "Submit." The whole thing takes under two minutes.

Chrome and Edge on laptops and Chromebooks work best. Safari on iPhone and iPad works on modern iOS versions. Firefox works on desktop. Students should not use the built-in browser inside Google Classroom or other apps; if the mic button is grayed out, have them open the link in Chrome or Safari directly.

First, make sure the student opened the link in Chrome or Safari, not inside another app. Second, the browser will ask for microphone permission and the student must allow it. Third, if permission was previously blocked, they need to reset it in browser site settings. On a Chromebook, check that the school has not blocked microphone access in device settings.

Habla stores the student's name as entered, account email address, audio recording, submission timestamps, and any grade or feedback added by the teacher. Only the assigning teacher can access submissions through the app.

Students are added to your roster automatically the first time they submit an assignment. You can also add them manually from the Roster section inside your class by entering a name and email.

In your class, scroll to the Roster section and click "Upload CSV." Your file should have a name column and an email column, either as "name, email" or "first name, last name, email" with a header row. Habla will tell you how many students were added and how many were already on the roster.

Open a class, then open an assignment. You will see submissions in one panel. Play the audio, enter a score, add optional written feedback, and save. If you set up a rubric, you grade each criterion separately and Habla totals the score.

Yes. Inside any class, there is an export button. It exports a CSV with student names, emails, assignment titles, scores, feedback, and submission timestamps for import into a school gradebook.

Yes. When creating an assignment, enable the rubric builder and define criteria with point values. Students see assignment instructions before recording, and teachers grade each criterion when reviewing submissions.

Have the student reload the page and try again. If that fails, have them open the link in a different browser. If they are on school Wi-Fi and getting upload errors, try another network and contact support with the class name and a short description of what happened.

Refresh the assignment page. If it still does not appear, check that the student signed in with the correct school account before submitting. Submissions are attached to the email they used.

Make sure the link was copied in full and was not truncated when pasted into email or chat. Test it yourself in an incognito window. If the page shows "Assignment unavailable," the assignment may have been deleted.

Habla uses sign-in, teacher role checks, and class ownership checks to limit access. Student recordings should be stored in private or access-controlled storage; production storage settings must be verified before district rollout.

No. The app does not provide a student-to-student recording sharing feature. Teacher playback routes check the teacher's access to the class before returning audio.

Yes. Habla's core audio classroom is free forever, including classes, rosters, speaking assignments, student recordings, teacher grading, feedback, and CSV export. Optional AI is usage-based. District-wide use and purchasing remain a separate review process.

AI pricing is 5 cents per successful grade plus 1 cent per audio minute, with feedback included. Each UTC month includes one fewer free AI grade than the number of qualifying active classes. A qualifying class has a rostered student and a real assignment. Failed attempts and duplicate delivery of the same result are not charged again. Sign in to the AI billing page to check self-serve availability.

Yes. A successful AI run saves a whole-point score, rubric breakdown when applicable, and feedback onto an ungraded submission. The result is visible to that student immediately. The teacher can review the transcript and evidence, edit the grade, or replace the feedback. If the AI cannot produce a valid grade, Habla saves no score.

The current classroom workflow includes classes, assignments, student audio submissions, teacher grading, rubrics, feedback, roster management, and CSV export.

Contact us to request current privacy, retention, security, subprocessor, and DPA-review materials. Habla should not be described as district-approved until that district completes its own review.