Video feedback built for sign language programs
Classroom is purpose-built around how ASL and sign language interpreting are taught. Every feature is designed for that work: signed feedback, corrections that land on the exact moment, and interpretation judged beside its source. It is a platform made for the way ASL and interpreting are taught and learned most effectively.
Tools built for every subject do not work well for a visual language
The video tools most programs use were designed for speech, nursing, teacher prep, and everything else. They have video and a timeline, but nothing in them was built around how sign language is taught.
Feedback was designed to be typed
General tools treat the student's video as the thing being graded and the feedback as a comment on a timeline. For a visual language, the feedback itself needs to be signed, and the tool has to make that the easy path.
The videos are too small to teach from
The student's video gets the screen and the teacher's response is a thumbnail or a text box. Teaching a sign means both people need to see both pairs of hands clearly at the same moment.
Teachers fill the gaps by hand
A screenshot to point at a handshape. A separate video for the reply. A rubric in another document. Each one is extra work the tool should be doing.
Interpreting tests are edited together by hand
To give students a source with pauses to interpret in, teachers cut the video themselves, type the instructions onto it, and upload it to a tool that plays it like any other clip. Shortening the pauses next month means editing it all over again.
Purpose-built, by a company that only does sign language
We know what a good correction looks like and what it costs when it gets lost, because every product we make exists to keep sign language from getting lost. SyncSigns builds the Player Deaf audiences use to watch interpreted video, the Studio interpreters record in, and the live events they interpret. Classroom is that same focus, turned toward the people learning the language.
Deaf and hearing people teach and learn sign language side by side, so signing is the default here, not an accessibility setting. Classroom is built around ASL programs first, and nothing in it assumes which signed language you teach.
Feedback that is signed, not just typed
Record the correction in sign. Students answer in sign. Typed notes stay available when they are the right tool.
A review surface made for watching signers
Freeze a frame and draw on it. Slow the playback and scrub to a single sign. Trim a take before it goes anywhere.
Built for a heavy grading week
Step through submissions, drop feedback, and publish without leaving the keyboard. Shortcuts are yours to remap.
Built for teaching interpreting, too
Learning to interpret is different from learning the language. The student works against a source, and you judge the interpretation against it. Any assignment can carry a source, breaks for the student to respond in, and the conditions of a test. A test is an ordinary assignment with strict settings, so there is nothing separate to learn.
A source to interpret
Attach what students interpret: a signed video, a spoken audio clip, or text for sight translation. One assignment can mix signed and spoken clips.
Breaks where the student responds
Arrange clips and timed breaks, each break with its own on-screen instruction. Students sign or voice in the breaks. Drop breaks onto one long upload and the file is never cut.
Simultaneous or consecutive, in one recording
Students press Start once and the camera runs through the whole sequence. Or they watch first and record when ready. You choose per assignment.
Strict conditions for tests
Count viewings and takes, turn off pause and rewind, set the countdown and an overall time limit. The counting happens on the server. Allow another take or add time for one student when you choose.
Review beside the source
The student's recording plays time-locked next to the source. Every break is marked on the timeline, so you jump straight to each response, and the source can float wherever you want it.
Shorter breaks as the term goes on
Copy a source into a new assignment without re-uploading, then set every break at once or shorten them all by a percentage. Pushing students to respond faster is one setting, not another edit.
Receptive work fits the same loop: students watch under the conditions you set and type one answer, graded by hand.
Your plan, in three steps
Set it up once. Repeat every week of the term.
Set up your class
Post an assignment with a signed prompt, a due date, and your materials. Or attach a source to interpret and set the conditions. Share a class code. Students join with it in minutes.
Students submit their signing
They record in the browser or upload a video, take as many takes as you allow, trim, and submit the one they are proud of. Or they interpret your source in one continuous recording.
Give feedback they can see
Review with feedback pinned to a moment or stretched across a phrase, freeze frames, and signed replies. Publish an assessment. Students answer in sign and the thread stays with the work.
What your term looks like
For you, for your students, and for the program. Every correction you give this week is watched, understood, and answered.
- Your feedback is signed, pinned to the second, and watched instead of skimmed.
- Students reply in sign, so you know whether the correction stuck before the next assignment.
- Rubrics, categories, and grades live beside the video. No second document, no second tab.
- Your best explanations are saved once and reused across sections and terms.
- Your department grades from shared rubrics, so feedback is consistent from one instructor to the next.
- Students learning to interpret work against a source you built in minutes, and tests run under the conditions you set, not the honor system.
- Deaf and hearing teachers and students share one tool where signing is the default, not an accommodation.
What we promise
Students see only their own work
Students join a class, not your organization. Classmates never see each other's submissions, and playback links are signed and expire.
Nothing to install
Students record in a desktop browser or upload from a phone. You review in the browser with the keyboard.
Signing is the default
Prompts, feedback, replies, and assessments can all be signed. Captions and keyboard access run throughout, for Deaf and hearing users alike.
Everything on the screen is there because signing is the subject
A robust video system, pointed at the one thing a sign language class needs: finding the moment and teaching it.
Both signers, large and side by side
The student's video and your feedback video sit big and next to each other, so teacher and student can both see exactly what each hand is doing.
A moment or a span
Pin feedback to one second, or stretch it across a phrase so students see how a sign moves, not just a frozen frame, and know exactly which stretch to fix.
Freeze frame and draw
Stop on a handshape, draw on the frame, and attach it so the student sees exactly what you saw.
Feedback types that fit the moment
Correction, kudos, note, or question. Students see at a glance what kind of feedback each marker holds.
Video messages in context
Replies and threads, signed or typed, attached to the moment in the video they are about, not to the assignment in general.
Materials where the student needs them
Documents, links, and reference videos travel with the assignment and with the feedback, so support is one click from the moment.
Notifications and an inbox
New submissions, feedback, and replies land in one inbox. Answer from there, or from the moment in the video, without drilling into each student's work.
A link to the exact moment
Share a link that opens one feedback item, so a follow-up conversation starts at the issue instead of searching for it.
Assessment and rubric from the submission
Record an overall assessment in sign or write it, and grade against the assignment's rubric without leaving the student's video.
Auto-stop and step-through
Playback stops at each feedback item, and a keystroke moves to the next or previous one. Easier for you to review what you gave, easier for students to work through it.
Full screen
An immersive mode for focused review, with the controls and the feedback timeline still in reach.
Video that just plays
Encoded and delivered the way the large streaming services do it: starts fast, adapts to the connection, and plays smoothly on campus Wi-Fi or a phone.
Class codes and join links
Students join with a code or a link and see their own work and your feedback, nothing else.
Feedback library
Save the signed feedback you give most often and reuse it across students and terms.
Who Classroom serves
Anywhere a signed language is taught and student signing is assessed.
College ASL departments and interpreter training programs
Weekly signing assignments for the ASL sequence. For students learning to interpret, source-based assignments: consecutive and simultaneous practice, receptive work, and tests under strict conditions, at the scale of a department.
High schools and schools for the Deaf
ASL as a world language, Deaf studies, and signing practice for Deaf and hearing students in the same class, with feedback every student can watch.
Online and community sign language programs
Courses taught over distance, community classes, and continuing education for working interpreters, wherever your students are.
Billed the way your program buys
Student passes, teacher seats, or one agreement for the department or the campus. Tell us how your school buys and we will quote it that way.
Students pay per term
A term pass per student, the way many programs already buy, with no per-video fees. Schools can sponsor seats instead.
Teachers pay per year
An annual seat per teacher keeps access between terms to plan, build rubrics, and reuse materials.
Department or campus agreement
One agreement covers every teacher and student on one invoice, sized to the program, so nobody collects from students one at a time.
Teaching lectures that need interpreting, or a signed campus announcement? That is the same platform. See SyncSigns for education.
See a full assignment, start to finish
In a short demo we walk through a real assignment in Classroom: the signed prompt, a student submission, feedback pinned to the moment, the signed reply, and the rubric and grade. Teaching interpreting? We build a source with breaks, run it under test conditions, and review the recording beside it.