Can I Translate Audio or Assignments Into Spanish?

Can I Translate Audio or Assignments into Spanish?

Applies to: Flex Editor & Slide Editor


Partly. Read Aloud can read an Activity aloud in Spanish, but Classwork.com doesn’t translate the text of Activities or Assignments. You can build them in Spanish yourself, though: type in any language, turn on Special Characters for accented letters, ask the AI tools to write in Spanish, and record your own audio.


Let students hear it in Spanish

Turn on Read Aloud in the assignment’s Student tools. In a Flex Activity, students click Read Aloud, open the Voice menu and pick Lupe (Español) or Pedro (Español). Whatever they click is then read aloud in Spanish, even if the Activity is written in English. The words on the screen stay in English. In a Slide Activity, students pick the Spanish voice in the Read Aloud panel.


Animation: a student clicks Read Aloud, opens the Voice menu, picks Pedro (Español), then clicks the question to hear it read in Spanish


See How Do I Use the Read Aloud (Text-to-Speech) Tool?


Turn on Special Characters

Special Characters gives students a set of accented letters and punctuation (á, ñ, ¿, ¡ and more) when they type in Short Answer, Open Answer or Text boxes. You turn it on for each Activity. Pick more than one language and the characters are combined.

Flex Editor

  1. Open the Activity in the Flex Editor.
  2. Click the … menu at the top right.
  3. Click Special Characters.
  4. In Select special character sets for students, check Spanish / Español (and any others) and click Save.


Step by step: the ... menu, Special Characters, Spanish checked, and Save

Slide Editor

  1. Open the Activity in the Slide Editor.
  2. Choose Settings → Special Characters.
  3. Check Spanish / Español (and any others) and click Save.


Step by step: Settings, Special Characters, Spanish checked, and Save


For a Short Answer question, students must type the accents exactly to be marked correct. To accept answers with or without accents, add each version as a correct answer.


More detail: Using Special Characters or Non-English Languages in Classwork.com.


Have AI write it in Spanish

Use Create with AI (Flex Editor, in the + Add window) or AI Create (Slide Editor toolbar) to make passages and questions, and say in your request that you want them in Spanish. Read through the result before you assign it.


Add Spanish audio

Audio you record or upload isn’t translated, so record your own in Spanish (up to 5 minutes) or upload a file. See Adding Audio to an Activity.

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