One of the useful advantages that DiLL offers is the automation of saving and collecting student work.  In DiLL, as soon as a student makes a recording (in the context of a task) that recording is automatically saved and upload to your DiLL Server.

This blog post goes over how to access and download your student recordings.

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Teachers often ask us how to create their own audio lessons for use in DiLL. A general workflow will look like:

1. Create your audio lesson file using a 3rd party application like GarageBand, Audacity, QuickTime, etc. (You can even do this on your iOS device using the included Voice Memo app)
2. Upload your audio lesson file to the DiLL Server (see blog post: How-To: Uploading Audio Files to DiLL Server)
3. Assign the audio lesson to your students in DiLL by creating and using a Task

In this blog post, we’ll be using the QuickTime player to create a simple audio lesson.

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Promoting a user account to “Teacher” status in DiLL is performed via the DiLL Server Web Interface.

DiLL has three user account tiers:

1. Super User
2. Teacher
3. Student

Access the DiLL Web Interface to:	Super User	Teacher	Student
Review and download student recordings	√	√
View and assign private lesson tracks	√	√
Add, update, delete content: subjects, books, lessons	√
Create, modify, delete user accounts	√
Set fallback passwords for user accounts	√
Promote accounts to “Teacher” and “Super User”	√
Assign subjects to teachers	√
Upload lesson tracks using Dill Catalog Manager	√

Note: students cannot access the DiLL Web Interface. By default, all accounts are student accounts until promoted to Teacher and/or Super User. 

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Audio lessons/files marked “private” in the DiLL Catalog are only accessible to students via a teacher created Task. Lessons/files marked “private” are hidden from students in the DiLL Catalog.

There are two ways to make a lesson/file “private” in DiLL.
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Every DiLL school has their own DiLL Server that hosts the various audio lesson materials used by that school’s world language department.  These materials can come from a variety of sources, unique to each department and school:

• Audio CDs that accompany language textbooks
• Audio materials on textbook publishers’ websites
• Free online materials (e.g., iTunes University)
• Audio created by the teacher (using tools like QuickTime, GarageBand, Audacity, etc.)

Thankfully uploading files to DiLL is easy and quick and we’ve created a special application, the DiLL Catalog Manager, to streamline the process.

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