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How can we help?

Short, step-by-step guides for every part of Toka. Search, or pick a topic below.

Browsing and your account

Finding resources

Watching and reading

Classical Conversations

Your account

  • Create a free account

    Sign up with your email and a password, confirm the code we email you, and tell us a little about your family.

  • Sign in and sign out

    Sign in with your email and password, what to do if you are asked for a code, and how to sign out.

  • Reset a forgotten password

    Get a reset code by email and choose a new password, which also signs you out everywhere else.

For parents

Adding to the catalogue

  • Suggest a resource

    Add a book, video, course, DVD, PDF or website that Toka doesn't have yet.

  • Add a video to a resource

    Suggest a YouTube or Vimeo video — an audiobook, a review, a read-aloud — for a book or course.

  • Write a review

    Rate a resource, share how your family used it, and report a review that breaks the rules.

  • Reviews from around the web

    Read what trusted review sites say about a resource, and vote on which links help most.

Your family

  • Keep shopping lists

    Save resources to buy, tick them off, and track a term's booklist from needed to on the shelf.

  • Track what your family owns

    Record the books and curriculum already on your shelves, so you never buy the same thing twice.

  • Invite a co-parent

    Bring a spouse or another parent onto your family account, so you can plan and check work together.

  • Tell us the curriculum you use

    Tick the publishers your family uses this year, add anything else in your own words, and choose whether it shows on your profile.

  • Add a child

    Add each child to your family, choose the app view that suits their age, and remove a profile if you ever need to.

  • Choose what your child can browse

    Approve the books and videos a child may open on their own, or let them see everything on Toka.

  • Your child's classmates and friends

    Choose whether classmates can see your child, approve friend requests, and turn it all off.

Your account

The planner

Memory work

Learning

Chores and rewards

Child mode

  • Hand the computer to a child

    Switch a shared computer into a child's own view, let older children sign in with a PIN, and get back to your account.

For course creators

Courses

  • Create a course

    Set up your teacher profile and start a new course for your family.

  • Add lessons, units and chapters

    Shape a course into lessons, group them into units, and split each lesson into chapters and sections.

  • Add content to a lesson

    Fill a lesson's sections with text, video, quotes, card decks, story slideshows, drills, audio, knowledge checks, PDFs and writing worksheets.

  • Add pictures to a course

    Give a course and each lesson its artwork, put a hero banner across a section, choose what phones show, or set a photo beside a passage.

  • Language practice activities

    Edit a lesson's language practice, choose which of its parts each block shows, and place copies of it in other sections.

  • Language practice games

    Add a game to a lesson's practice, and see what it can use.

  • Add PDFs and writing worksheets

    Attach a PDF for students to open or print, or make a printable page for writing Chinese characters stroke by stroke.

  • Dialogue games

    Build the sentence and Role-play, the two games made from a lesson's dialogue.

  • Tell a story in slides

    Show a scene one picture at a time, each slide with its own recording and caption.

  • Trim a course video

    Choose where a YouTube video starts and stops, and skip parts in the middle.

  • Publish a course

    Move a course from draft to published so your family's children can enroll or join it, and remove it when you're done.

  • Get a course reviewed to share it

    Submit a course for a moderator's review before you invite people outside your family, and what happens when you edit it or it is not approved.

  • Invite someone outside your family to a course

    Send a link that lets one person outside your family take your course for free, see who joined, and pause anyone you need to.

  • See a lesson as a student

    Preview a lesson without saving anything, or study it as an enrolled child on a shared computer.

  • Enroll children and follow their progress

    Enroll your children in a published course or let them join it themselves, see which lessons they've finished, and remove them if needed.

Questions about Toka itself?

Whether it's free, who writes the reviews, how moderation works — the FAQ answers those.

Read the FAQ