Write & Improve for English Teachers: Free Course

About this course

Explore a practical workflow for English writing practice, revision and feedback with Cambridge’s Write & Improve. This free video course includes getting started, creating a profile, building workbooks and tasks, inviting students and reviewing teacher-facing features. The public videos are free. The core learner tool has free features, while premium options such as +Class View require separate access and may involve a subscription.

Course at a glance

What you’ll learn

• Describe a writing-practice workflow that includes attempting a task, reviewing feedback, revising and reflecting on the changes made.
• Understand the purpose of workbooks and tasks and plan how they could organise learner practice.
• Recognise how teacher-facing features differ from the core learner writing tool, including access to student work and progress.
• Prepare a writing task and a review routine that use feedback as a starting point for learning rather than treating an automatic score as the whole outcome.

Skills you’ll gain

• Digital writing practice
• Workbook planning
• Writing task design
• Revision routines
• Feedback literacy
• Educational technology

Course Overview

The playlist combines step-by-step tutorials with short product explanations. The instructional sequence begins with the basic tool and a profile, then moves to workbooks, tasks and student invitations. Later videos introduce +Class View, viewing student writing and exam-related writing practice. All nine entries are retained so that the classroom reflects the complete selected source playlist. Because some demonstrations concern premium features, distinguish what you can do with your own access from what a subscription enables. Interfaces may also have changed since the recordings, so use the tutorials to understand the workflow and check the current controls when practising.

How the course develops

• Start with the setup tutorials, then follow the videos on workbooks, tasks and invitations. Record the purpose of each step before attempting it.
• Pay attention to the +Class View explanations. Some classroom-management and student-work features are premium and are not included simply by watching the course.
• Connect the tool with a teaching decision: what learners should write, how they will review feedback and what you will discuss after revision.

Use the searchable lesson list to revisit an explanation while planning or practising. Keep a short note of the idea you want to apply and return to it after trying it in your own context.

Who is this for?

This course is for English teachers exploring online writing practice, tutors organising tasks and educators considering digital feedback workflows. Learners can also benefit from the basic setup and revision ideas, but the course’s main emphasis is teacher use. It is not a complete English writing syllabus or a promise of an official exam grade.

Before you start

Basic confidence using a web browser is enough to follow the videos. A sample writing task and a short fictional learner response will help with reflection. You can study the video course without purchasing premium features; hands-on use of a demonstrated premium feature requires the appropriate access.

Put the lessons into practice

Draft a short writing task with a clear audience and purpose. Prepare a fictional response containing one issue with meaning, one with organisation and one with language. Plan a review routine in which the learner explains what they changed and why, rather than silently accepting every suggestion. Decide which feedback needs a teacher conversation and which the learner can investigate independently. If you use the free tool, try the workflow with the features available to you. Keep a separate note of any premium feature you would need for class management, so that your lesson plan does not depend on access you do not have.

This optional activity is provided by WikiFree for independent study. It is not a graded assignment from the instructor. Keep your working notes and separate evidence from assumptions so that you can review your reasoning as you progress.

Certificate / Assessment

The public video training is free to watch. Completing this WikiFree course does not include a Cambridge English exam, a qualification, academic credit or instructor assessment.

Use your notes and the optional practice to reflect on how you would apply the ideas. Completion tracking records study progress; it is not a marked assessment.

Frequently asked questions

Provider: Cambridge English. Videos play from the English with Cambridge channel on YouTube.