A1 Building Futures 5 - Week 1: Unit 1
Building Futures 5, Unit 1 Week 1 — greetings and classroom functional language, classroom vocabulary matching and gap-fill, numbers in words, and social-skills situational judgement.
ENGLISH FOR SCHOOLS AND TEAMS
Carna writes a test from the topic you teach and marks it the moment students submit.
Tests written from the coursebook unit you teach Nine of eleven question types marked the moment a student submits Every AI grade stays a suggestion until a teacher decides
Reports in Carna: the class average, what has been handed in, and every course's average score beside the class's score distribution. Carna School London is a sample school; the names and scores are demo data.
COURSEBOOKS ON SMARTBOARD
Smartboard holds 53 interactive coursebooks. A teacher opens one on the classroom board, students open the same book on their own screens, and your school chooses which classes get each one.
Covers from the Smartboard catalogue. Which books a school sees depends on its licence.
Carna is the AI platform partner of MM Publications, the ELT publisher behind the coursebooks on Smartboard.
HOW IT WORKS
Set a test up yourself, build it from the coursebook and units you teach, or align it to the MEB (Maarif) learning outcomes for the class you pick. Carna writes the questions, you approve them, and the marks fill the class picture. Which paths a teacher sees is your school's setting.
The page you teach
Pick your coursebook and the unit. Carna starts from there.
Carna writes the test
You edit, replace or approve every question.
Marked on submit
Against your answer key. Essays wait for a teacher.
The class you see
Who to look at first: not started, overdue, low score.
Teach
Build the test from the page you teach, assign it with the rules you want, watch students solve it, and open any one of them in full.
Set a test up yourself, build it from the coursebook and units you teach, or align it to MEB (Maarif) learning outcomes. Choose the level, the categories and the question types, then preview, edit and approve every question before it is saved.
Test Generation in Carna, on the Custom Test path. Carna School London is a sample school; the grammar rules and settings are demo data.
Choose the module, the whole class or just a few students, the due date and the attempts. One action assigns and publishes it, and late work is refused unless you allow it.
Assigning a module in Carna to the demo school's 9A English class. The class, the dates and the module are demo data.
Students open the work their teacher assigned and answer it section by section, with their own rail still in view. The answer sheet lists every question and says what is left before they finish.
A student solving the Reading Quiz in Carna. Carna School London is a sample school; the passage and the answers are demo data.
Open one student: their average against the class, what they handed in, how many tries it took and what came in late, course by course. Every score is the latest attempt, so nothing here is a final mark.
One student's report in Carna. Zara Ahmed is a demo learner at Carna School London, a sample school; the scores are demo data.
MARKING
Learn, practice, review: marking is what closes that loop, and it happens on submission, not on a teacher's evening. Essays and speaking, which have no answer key, come back to a person.
NINE QUESTION TYPES
Nine of Carna's eleven question types are marked against the answer key the moment a student submits, with no teacher and no AI involved. Pick an answer to see the mark.
A working sample of Carna's question types. The questions and answers are samples, not a live test.
THE DECISION
Essays and speaking have no answer key. An AI grade arrives as a suggestion, labelled that way, with a CEFR band, a score, how sure the model is and why. Nothing becomes a student's mark until a teacher decides.
Reports in Carna: the essay grading queue, and gradings after a teacher's decision. Names, reasoning and scores are samples.
Speaking
In a speaking task Carna takes its turn, hears the student's, and comes back with a CEFR band and a score, as a suggestion. A generated listening dialogue gives each speaker a voice of their own.
Let's talk about your week at school. Tell me one thing you learned and why it mattered.
The student answers out loud.
Waiting for a teacher.
EVERYONE'S SHARE
A teacher opens the class and the students to look at first. A student opens the work that is due. A parent follows one student with a code that student makes. Your school decides who arrives in which class.
A student's own screen in Carna: the work their teacher assigned, soonest first, each course with its level, its skills and its due date. Carna School London is a sample school; the student, the courses and the dates are demo data.
Matched on the exact email address
Your school's pre-approved list holds student and teacher email addresses, each with a class. When someone on the list first signs in to Carna, including with Google, they join that class, with no code to hand out. Each entry is used once, and an unused one can be revoked.
Email or username, one sign-in box
Students can sign in with a username instead of an email, typed into the same box. When students are imported, the usernames and passwords your school already uses can come with them, and Carna creates only the ones left blank.
WHERE TO GO NEXT
A school and a company use the same Carna underneath: the same test generation, the same marking, the same eight skills.
For schools
Write a test from the page you teach, mark it on submission, and read the class in one panel. Teachers decide every AI grade.
For business
The same engine for a team: assigned practice, your people's levels, and reporting a manager can act on.
Learning on your own? Carna's AI English tutor has its own page, and opens through a waitlist.
BOOK A DEMO
Bring a unit you are teaching this week. We generate a test from it, assign it, and show you the class picture it fills.