Steve, I am an online English teacher. I teach English to adult students in France from my home in Southern California. I am a big fan of readlang and I highly recommend it to all my students.
I don’t know if it is possible to offer some sort of small upgrade discount to my students. I think it would encourage them to upgrade and help me get them reading in English using your program, so they can practice more often. Let me know if you would like to consider this idea.
Thank you
I’m very happy to hear that you are recommending Readlang to your students!
I don’t offer any kind of student discount at the moment. My thinking is that:
a) I don’t really have a reliable way to verify they really are a “student”
b) isn’t everyone using Readlang a student since they are using it to learn, whether they are at an institution or not?
So for now the price is the same no matter who you are.
Hi Steve, I am a classroom teacher, and it would be brilliant to have the possibility to create bulk accounts. So, if it were possible to have the premium version for entire classes (e.g., 20 students), then the price could be reduced, and it might facilitate the log-in process, as creating a new account for every single student takes a lot of work. From a business standpoint, it could make sense, as schools can get you a lot of premium users at a time. Of course, I understand if you don’t have the capacity to make this.
Hi @Dennis_Hinze. Thanks very much for your interest but my previous answer still holds for now.
A third reason, beyond the two I already listed above, is that in the past I had a couple of different teachers reach out with similar requests and I actually did start the process of offering a bulk discount, but in both cases it didn’t go ahead since they had trouble getting it approved by the admin/bureaucracy at their institutions.
For now, I’m happy for teachers to use Readlang with their students for free, and maybe at some point some of those students may decide to upgrade. (Of course, even offering it for free can be problematic due to legal reasons, unfortunately I don’t have the legal resources to be able to comply with some of the laws that govern use of software by children in schools.)