Feedback your student can hear, at the second it applies

A student sends two minutes of speaking practice. You listen, and you hear six things worth saying — a vowel, a missed past tense, a long hesitation, a stress pattern that changes the word, a phrase that was actually excellent, and one sentence you couldn't make out at all.

Then you have to write it down. So it becomes "at about 0:45 when you were talking about your hometown, the word ‘comfortable’ — try three syllables, not four." You are spending most of your effort describing where the feedback goes instead of giving the feedback, and the student still has to scrub back and forth to find it.

Every note you leave in OnCue is already attached to its moment. You press play, and when you hear something, you type. That's the whole workflow.

1. 1. The student records on their phone. Voice Memos, WhatsApp, whatever they have. They send you the file.
2. 2. You upload it and listen once. Type notes as you go — each one lands at the second you were at.
3. 3. You send the link. One message, no attachments, nothing to install.
4. 4. They listen with your notes in place. They hear their own hesitation, then read what you said about it, in that order — which is the order that makes it stick.

Teachers who use this heavily tend to keep notes short and specific — a few words at the right moment beats a paragraph in the wrong place. Common marks:

• A single mispronounced word, marked on the word rather than the sentence
• Word stress that changed the meaning (PREsent vs preSENT)
• Hesitations and fillers, where the pause itself is the point
• A grammar slip the student self-corrected — worth praising at the exact spot
• Pace: the moment they sped up and stopped being intelligible
• The best sentence in the recording, so the feedback isn't only corrections