Livetea.ch 3.0: Less Admin, More Teaching

When we launched Livetea.ch for the first time, our goal was simple: give you the tools to share your knowledge online, all in one place. But as your courses grew, so did your needs, and we’re excited to announce recent product changes. The mission? Make everything cleaner and more intuitive for both you and your students. The new Livetea.ch update isn’t just a fresh coat of paint: it’s a completely reimagined platform designed to get out of your way so you can focus on teaching.

Here is your official tour of what’s changed, what’s new, and how it’s going to make your day-to-day infinitely easier.

1. The One-Link Classroom: say goodbye to generating new meeting links. Your course receives one permanent link that lasts forever.
2. The Course Binder: build, organise, and save your entire multi-week syllabus in just a few clicks.
3. Calendar: effortless scheduling with time zone support and student-specific view. 
4. Chat: messaging drawer that lets you keep the conversation going from any page
5. Mobile support: now your interactive lessons are supported on mobile devices.
6. A cleaner look, smart tracking tabs, and optimised audio and video ensure the highest-quality lessons.

Ready to do even more with your classes? Livetea.ch 3.0 introduces a handful of entirely new tools designed to boost student engagement and save you admin time. Meet the new additions.

If you are teaching multiple classes, keeping track of who is doing what (and when) can quickly become overwhelming. To solve this problem, we introduce a new course view to create a dedicated workspace for each of your groups. When you click on any course, the new overview tab instantly greets you with a beautifully organised snapshot of everything happening in that specific class.

What makes it powerful? 

1. Your next upcoming class is always pinned right at the top with a highly visible "Join" button. You will also see a quick visual preview of the slides and materials for that day, meaning zero last-minute scrambling before class starts.
2. The Schedule tab gives you a focused calendar specifically for that course. Easily set up recurring weekly sessions, view a timeline of past classes, and manage dates without getting distracted by your master calendar.
3. Effortlessly toggle between your Coursebook, your participants list, and your course settings from a single menu.

Say goodbye to the "Where is the link for today's class?" emails. Now every course you create gets one permanent, flexible link. This single link is the lifetime key to your classroom for both you and your students. No matter how many weeks your course runs, the link never changes.

Why this feature is a game-changer for your teaching:

1. Instant lesson switching: need to jump ahead to a lesson planned for a future date or pull up a quick exercise? You can load upcoming lessons instantly right inside the active classroom without making everyone log out and log back in.
2. Perfect Continuity: did a student miss last week, or do you need to review a tricky grammar point? You can instantly pull up previous lessons from earlier weeks.
3. Everything is saved: when you go back to a previous lesson, all your drawings, notes, board work, and student progress are saved exactly as you left them. It’s like walking back into a physical classroom where nobody erased the whiteboard. 
4. Your students bookmark the link once, and they are set for the entire semester.

Less admin, with a teaching flow that adapts to your students in real time. If a lesson takes unexpected turns, you have your entire course library right at your fingertips in the very same room.

If you’ve ever found it difficult to keep your lesson materials, slides, and homework organised across multiple groups, classes, or multi-week courses, this feature will be invaluable. 

As a core addition to the platform, we are introducing Course Binder - a visual, structured curriculum builder that lets you prepare your entire course in minutes. Think of it as a digital binder where you can organise your teaching journey step-by-step and end up with an actual book! 

How it works: 

1. Structure with modules: Break your course down into what you are already used to – modules. What 'module' means is up to you – clear chapters, weeks, or thematic units – but it helps you break the course down into smaller chunks. 
2. Import from the Marketplace in 2 clicks: Need ready-to-go content? Browse our massive marketplace of professionally designed lesson decks, filter by student level or topic, and instantly import them directly into your module. 
3. Build from scratch: Prefer a blank canvas? Toss in an empty lesson deck with one click and build your custom slides right inside the module.

Why will you love it? Your students get a beautiful, structured learning path so they always know what’s coming next, and you get an organised dashboard to manage all your materials without having to dig through files every single time.

We know that for independent teachers and schools, your calendar is central to your business. This is why we want to support your administrative tasks as much as possible. 

Our calendar gives you an overview of your entire teaching business while giving you the control you need to manage individual students.

What makes the new calendar so useful:

1. Every single lesson scheduled is shown in one place 
2. Student-specific views: no more guessing who is booked when. With a simple dropdown menu, you can instantly filter your calendar to see the specific schedule of any individual student. 
3. Built-in timezone support: teaching internationally? You can now instantly toggle between time zones right from the top right corner of your calendar. Say goodbye to mental math and scheduling mix-ups.
4. Fully customisable layouts: tailor your workspace to your brain. Easily switch between Day, Week, Month, or List views. You can even toggle on a "compact view" or hide the weekends to keep your interface clean and focused. 
5. Join lessons right from your calendar or schedule a new one and never miss anything

This way, you spend less time negotiating time slots, calculating time differences, and digging through schedules, giving you more time to actually teach.

Communication shouldn’t end the second your class finishes. In the past, keeping in touch with students often meant relying on scattered email threads or giving out your personal number. Livetea.ch update changes that with a brand-new messaging system. With one click on the chat icon, your communication hub slides seamlessly onto your screen, no matter what page you are on.

Why is it special:

1. Because the chat acts like a drawer, you can check messages or reply to a student without losing your place, whether you are building a coursebook, checking your calendar or teaching a lesson. 
2. Your conversations are always organised into private messages, lesson chats, and master course chats. 
3. Your lesson and course chats are always open automatically, so you don’t have to spend your time creating new group chats each time. 

Keep all your professional communication neatly inside your teaching platform. It builds a stronger, more engaging community for your students while completely protecting your personal time and inbox.

You’ve just launched a Linguahouse lesson. On your monitor, it looks flawless. But when half your class joins from their smartphones, those dense, interactive slides can suddenly become hard to read and difficult to navigate. In our newest update, we are making it easier to use your content on both PC and mobile devices, including phones and tablets. It ensures that the content you rely on works flawlessly, no matter what device your students use.

How we’re upgrading the mobile experience:

1. With one click, Livetea.ch restructures the lesson content into a clean, scrollable, mobile-optimised view for those who need it. It isn’t a watered-down version – no matter the device, you and your students can still fully interact with the material and solve every single interactive exercise.
2.  The application now tells you exactly which device each student is using, so you never have to guess.
3. Live previews: not sure how a specific exercise looks on a student’s phone? Simply click on their profile to instantly check what they are seeing on their end. 

You can confidently launch any lesson knowing your mobile and tablet students are getting a highly interactive experience – not just a zoomed-out presentation.

We didn't want to reinvent the wheel, we just wanted to make it spin a whole lot better. We’ve taken the features you already know and love and polished them to perfection. Here is what we improved.

The very first thing you will notice when you log in to Livetea.ch is that everything feels significantly cleaner and more intuitive. We didn’t just change the colours – we completely redesigned the user interface so that your most important tools are always front and centre.

Here’s how your new home page has changed:

1. Your homepage is now a true command centre. The moment you log in, you get an instant visual snapshot of your active students, co-teachers, and ongoing courses. 
2. Need to schedule a last-minute lesson, build a new course or check your upcoming schedule? You can now do all of these tasks directly from the main page.

The online classroom is where the magic happens, which means the interface needs to be completely intuitive. For this update, we completely redesigned the meeting view to give you maximum flexibility while keeping your most useful tools just a click away.

Here are the key features to explore in your new digital classroom: 

1. Floating video: we’ve refreshed the look of the camera, but it’s not just about aesthetics – your video can now float across the screen. This gives you the freedom to keep an eye on your students’ reactions, even while you are scrolling through lesson materials or checking your chat. 
2. We’ve introduced a new index tab connected directly to lesson exercises. It now features clear, built-in video instructions so both you and your students know exactly what is expected of them. Plus, it gives you a real-time overview of their progress so you know exactly who is still working and who has finished.

Teaching a language requires absolute clarity, and a lagging connection or dropped call just won't cut it. We’ve completely overhauled our backend infrastructure to bring you a brand-new, ultra-reliable video conferencing engine built specifically for the unique demands of your virtual classroom.

What it means for you:

1. Higher stability
2. Optimised for long distances
3. High-quality audio encoders for crisp audio quality important for language teaching

With an engine you can finally trust, the physical distance between you and your students disappears, leaving nothing but a great conversation.

Let’s be honest: there is nothing more frustrating than your video freezing or your audio cutting out right in the middle of your sentence. Our team has spent the last few months rebuilding the engine that powers your classes to make them more stable. 

What it means for you:

1. Smoother video: your video will remain much more consistent
2. Better audio: we’ve heavily updated our audio quality so every pronunciation, nuance, and conversation comes naturally and clearly. 

You look great, you sound perfect, and the technology completely fades into the background so your teaching can shine.

We promised you less admin and more teaching and the new Livetea.ch update is built to deliver exactly that. With a solid engine, seamless mobile support, and your new tools like Course Binder, you can now deliver seamless online lessons.

⚠️ A Quick Note

We are migrating everyone to the new version of the application, but to ensure a smooth transition, we are doing it in waves. If you log in and don’t see the shiny new dashboard just yet, don’t worry! Your account is safely in the queue and will be upgraded.