CARNA FOR BUSINESS

English training you can measure.

Train your employees in business English: assign work with a deadline, then see the group average in one view.

Content levelled from A1 to C2

Reports in Carna. Carna's trainer and learner app, shown with a sample school's demo data.

— Marking

AI marking: it suggests, your trainer decides.

Speaking and writing tasks arrive with a suggested mark, a CEFR band and how sure the model is, with the reasons written out. Nothing is recorded until a trainer approves it, and the report shows when a mark was changed.

  • A suggested mark, band and confidence, with the reasons
  • Nothing recorded until a trainer approves it
  • The report says when a trainer changed the mark

Carna for Business runs on the same app schools use, so the screens on this page still say “teacher”, “class” and “students”. Every name and number is a sample school's demo data.

Reports in Carna: the essay grading queue, and Essay Writing gradings after a teacher's decision. Names, reasoning and scores are samples.

The programme, screen by screen

How does business English training work?

Carna for Business runs the programme in one app: trainers assign modules with a due date and an attempt cap, your people see what is due first and practise speaking and writing (in beta), and the group report shows the average and which courses sit below 60%.

The group, at a glance.

One report shows the group average, how much has been handed in, and which courses sit below 60% or at 80% and up. You read it before anyone asks.

  • Average, submissions and completion in one row
  • Courses below 60%, and at 80% and up
  • The score distribution against the average

Reports in Carna. Carna's trainer and learner app, shown with a sample school's demo data.

Deadlines that hold.

Assign a module to the whole group or to named people, with a due date, an attempt cap and a late-work rule. One action assigns and publishes it.

  • The whole group or named people
  • A due window and an attempt cap
  • Late work refused unless you allow it

Assigning a module in Carna. Carna's trainer and learner app, shown with a sample school's demo data.

Speaking and writing, ready to assign.

Assign speaking and writing practice from a published library, from ordering at a café at A1 to a job interview at B2. Practice is in beta: trainers cannot write their own scenarios yet.

  • Speaking scenarios, independent speaking and essay writing
  • Published modules, ready to assign

Practice (beta) in Carna. Carna's trainer and learner app, shown with a sample school's demo data.

What your people see.

Everyone opens on what is assigned, soonest due first, with the level and the deadline on every card, and picks up where they stopped.

  • Soonest due first
  • The CEFR level on every card
  • Start, continue or review

The Learn screen in Carna. Carna's trainer and learner app, shown with a sample school's demo data.

— FOR THE PROGRAMME OWNER

How do you see where each person stands?

In Carna for Business, a programme owner can follow every person: the report opens to one learner, course by course, the trainer's home screen lists who is behind, and your people open books at their level, read aloud, in the same app.

  • ONE LEARNER

    One person, in full.

    Their average against the group, what they handed in, how many tries it took and what came in late, course by course.

    One learner's report in Carna. Carna's trainer and learner app, shown with a sample school's demo data.

  • WHO IS BEHIND

    The people to look at first.

    A trainer's home screen lists who has not started, who is overdue and who scored low, each with the score, worst first.

    Needs Support 3

    • EC Ella Carter Not started 0%
    • AO Amara Osei Overdue 72%
    • ZA Zara Ahmed Low score 48%

    Needs Support on a trainer's home screen. The names and scores are samples.

  • GRADED READING

    Levelled readers, read aloud.

    Your people open a book at their level in the app and hear it read aloud, with the word being read lit up as the narration plays.

    A narrated reader in Carna. Carna's trainer and learner app, shown with a sample school's demo data.

  • LEVELS

    CEFR, A1 to C2.

    Content is levelled from A1 to C2, and speaking and writing are assessed with a CEFR band.

    A1–C2 Six CEFR levels, from beginner to proficient

    A1
    Beginner
    A2
    Elementary
    B1
    Intermediate
    B2
    Upper-Intermediate
    C1
    Advanced
    C2
    Proficient

— Side by side

Live tutors and Carna, honestly.

What a programme gains when the training runs in one app, and the one thing a person still does better.

Carna and Live tutors, feature by feature
What you get Live tutors Carna
Running the programme
Assign to a whole group or named people, with a due date Partly . Arranged lesson by lesson Yes
An attempt cap and a late-work rule on every assignment No Yes
Adding learners adds no tutor hours No . Each learner books their own hours Yes
Seeing results
A group report: the average, what's handed in, courses below 60% No . Progress lives in the tutor's notes Yes
One record per learner, course by course, with attempts and late work Partly . Depends on the tutor's notes Yes
Speaking and writing marks with a CEFR level and an IELTS band Partly . The tutor's own judgement Yes . A trainer can change any mark
The learning
A live conversation with a person Yes No . Speaking practice is AI-assessed, in beta
Self-paced practice, with no session to book No Yes
Levelled content from A1 to C2 Partly . Depends on the tutor's materials Yes

“Live tutors” means one-to-one lessons with a human tutor in general, not any one provider.

— QUESTIONS L&D TEAMS ASK

Before you book business English training.

Straight answers on trainers, marking, integrations and data. Anything else, ask us on the call.

Data and security: read the Trust page.

What is the best business English training for employees?

The kind your people can fit around their work and you can measure. Carna for Business gives them content levelled from A1 to C2 and speaking and writing practice, in beta, with no session to book. Trainers assign it to the whole group or named people with a deadline, and the group report shows the average, what is handed in and which courses sit below 60%.

How do we measure our people's English?

With reports. The group report shows the average, what has been handed in, and which courses sit below 60% or at 80% and up. Each learner has one record, course by course, with attempts and late work. Speaking and writing tasks carry a CEFR level and an IELTS band, and a trainer decides every mark.

Is the training live or self-paced?

Self-paced. Your people work through what is assigned when it suits them, soonest due first, with no session to book. Carna does not connect them to a live tutor: speaking practice is AI-assessed and in beta. If live lessons matter to your programme, say so on the demo call.

Do we need our own trainers?

Carna is the app your trainers run: they assign work, review the suggested marks and read the reports. If you have no trainer in-house, say so when you book a demo and we will talk through what a programme looks like for you.

Is Practice ready to use?

Practice is in beta. Your trainers can assign speaking and writing practice from Carna's published library today; writing their own scenarios is not open yet.

How are speaking and writing marked?

Each task arrives with a suggested mark, a CEFR level and an IELTS band, and the reasons behind it. A trainer decides the mark, and the report shows when it differs from the suggestion.

Does it connect to our LMS or HR system?

Talk to us about your LMS or HR system on the demo call. We will tell you exactly what connects today and what does not, before you commit to anything.

What happens to our people's data?

Our Trust page sets out how Carna stores and processes learner data. Bring your security questionnaire to the demo call and we will answer it line by line.

Can one person sign up on their own?

Carna for Business is sold to companies through a demo. Individuals can join the early-access waitlist for the Carna AI Tutor instead.

Book a demo

See it with your own people.

Tell us about your people and the English they need at work. We walk through the app on your use case and come back with a plan for your team.

After you book

No slide deck. The app, on your programme.

  1. We reply within one business day

    The business team writes back to fix a time that suits you.

  2. A walkthrough on your use case

    Assign a module with a deadline, open the group report and one person's record, on the app itself.

  3. Your questions, answered

    Bring your LMS or HR system and your security questionnaire. We tell you what connects today, and what does not.

How Carna handles learner data →