Ensure Auto-detect (PREVIEW) in Reading Progress uses your intended language

Auto-detect is a PREVIEW feature in Reading Progress that estimates errors based on common pronunciation. Auto-detect supports a number of dialects and pronunciations, and may assess student performance poorly if it interprets the uploaded document as the wrong language. For example, it may detect errors in a French document because it is monitoring for French pronunciation instead of French Canadian pronunciation. To ensure your documents are detected properly, follow the steps below.

Note: Passages from the sample library cannot be edited and will be interpreted as American English by Auto-detect.

Edit language in Reading Progress

You can now set your language preferences right in Reading Progress.

Select Import Word or PDF and choose a page from Class Notebook, a Word document, or PDF to create your Reading Progress assignment.

screenshot showing the dropdown after selecting upload word of pdf

2. Select Edit.

screenshot showing a passage in place with the cursor hovering over the edit button

3. Open the language dropdown and select your desired language.

screenshot showing the dropdown to select a language

4. Select the checkmark to apply your changes.

Auto-detect will listen for the language you selected when interpreting students' errors.

Ensure Auto-detect (PREVIEW) in Reading Progress uses your intended language

Edit language in Reading Progress

Set your document language

Languages that can use the auto-detect feature

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