Product Details

1) EnGen’s Adaptive Web/Mobile Platform

Needs Analysis
EnGen’s Needs Analysis leverages machine learning to gather information about a learner’s profile, personal interests, and professional goals in order to recommend the most relevant content.

Personalized Activities
From a wide range of self-study activities using real-world content, students are presented with activities tailored to them and their levels.

Web & Mobile Platform
Students can access their EnGen course via web, tablet, and native mobile applications for iOS and Android devices.

2) EnGen Content

EnGen offers a wide variety of content in its public catalog to meet the needs of every learner.

Personalized Units
EnGen’s recommendation engine utilizes a constantly growing content library to create Personalized Units that adapt to each individual learner’s proficiency level, interests, and skills.

General English Courses
General English Courses are prepared by the EnGen Content Team to develop the essential skills identified by global standards like the CEFR. They are made available to all learners in the platform. Courses are available only to learners of a minimum proficiency level.

Industry-Focused Courses
EnGen offers a set of industry-focused courses across a wide variety of industries, designed to help learners achieve professional success with English. Some of these courses, including a wide range of introductory courses, are offered to all learners as part of the public catalog.

Real Media
EnGen’s Real Media section includes single, self-study lessons that leverage real world materials including articles, videos, and audio conversations. New lessons are added daily and they are automatically filtered by level.

Grammar Guide
EnGen’s Grammar Guide covers a range of the most important English grammar topics, broken down by level, and includes relevant descriptions, examples, and linked practice lessons.

Word Bank
EnGen’s Word Bank includes a collection of all vocabulary that students have seen in their EnGen lessons. Students can practice their vocabulary using flashcards and can filter them by mastery or favorites.

3) Custom Content Services

Curriculum Mapping
EnGen’s Content Team can configure new courses from existing units that align to existing scope and sequence, program schedules, and/or study time requirements.

EnGen-Curated Curriculum Alignment
EnGen’s Content team can analyze existing lessons and create new lessons, units, and courses to create a learning experience that will parallel a customer’s existing curriculum.

Content Integration
EnGen can publish lessons using a customer’s specialized or proprietary content. These new lessons can then be configured into highly personalized units or courses for learners.

4) The EnGen Administrative Portal

The EnGen Administrative Portal is a self-service learner administration and reporting interface that gives customers control over their program and insight into the preset reports on learner engagement, proficiency gains, and more.

5) EnGen Live Instruction

Group Classes
EnGen group classes are led by native English teachers that are certified to teach English. The classes are designed to give learners the opportunity to practice speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills with other learners at the same proficiency level. The group classes also allow learners to get real-time feedback from a certified teacher as well as interact with peers. The group classes are based on EnGen lessons and are updated regularly to ensure learners can choose from the same relevant and interesting topics found in their self-study units. Each learner may reserve a number of group classes each month as defined in the Customer contract. EnGen group classes may be disabled from the learner experience for a group of learners, at the customer’s request.

Private Classes
EnGen private classes are led by native English speakers that are certified to teach English. The private classes are designed to be personalized based on the individual learner’s needs, interests, performance, and more. Learners are able to choose an area of focus for the class, the teacher, and the duration of the class upon booking (options are 15, 30, 45 and 60 minutes). EnGen private classes require credits that can be purchased in bulk by customer and assigned to learners, or purchased directly by the learner. Each credit corresponds to 15 minutes of a private class. EnGen private classes may be disabled from the learner experience for a group of learners, at the customer’s request.

Click here to review the terms and conditions for EnGen live instruction classes.

6) Teacher Platform

EnGen offers customers the ability to host their own private and group classes led by customers’ teachers. EnGen will create teacher accounts and provide a 1 hour training to a customer teacher administrator and additional training to customers’ teachers.

7) Integrations

Authentication Integration
Authentication integrations can make it easier and more secure for your learners to access EnGen with their existing user credentials. EnGen supports integrations with identity providers using the standard protocols SAML 2.0, OIDC, and LTI 1.1. In some cases, authentication with Google and Facebook is also available. You can find a more detailed overview here.

8) EnGen Proficiency Assessment (PA)

The PA provides an objective assessment of a learner’s proficiency level, based on international standards, and the score can be used to predict performance on other global standardized assessments like TOEFL, IELTS, CEFR.

The Oral Proficiency Assessment (OPT)
The OPT adds a high-quality oral proficiency assessment to the VPA® (EnGen Proficiency Assessment), by using trained language specialists that asynchronously grade spoken responses from test takers. Each OPT is graded by two specialists to assure consistency on final grade, and is completed within 72 hours of submission by the learner.

9) Learner and Customer Support

EnGen’s Experience & Operations Team is responsible for supporting EnGen’s Learners and Customers throughout the duration of a contract. EnGen’s Learner Support Team is responsible for supporting the needs of EnGen’s learners to ensure that they stay motivated and engaged throughout their course experience. Learner Support Representatives are available via email and chat to provide support on various learner needs from technical issues to study recommendations and tips to get the most out of learning with EnGen. Customer Support Representatives are available via email to provide support on various Customer needs including platform configurations and other technical support.