How to use the KoloLingo desktop app (teachers)

The KoloLingo app for Mac and Windows is KoloLingo on your computer, in its own window. Every page and feature you use on the website is there, with the same account. It adds steadier lessons, easy screen sharing, and notifications that reach you even when the window is closed.

What's in it

• Your whole portal: calendar, lessons, students, messages, materials, courses, earnings and your profile, exactly as on the website.
• The lesson room in its own app. The browser cannot slow it down when you switch to your notes or another window, and your student's voice plays as soon as you join.
• Screen sharing with a picker. Choose a whole screen or one window from live previews.
• Notifications and instant calls. New messages and bookings arrive as system notifications, and the app icon shows how many are unread. If you are "Free now", a student's instant call rings in the app and brings it to the front, even with the window closed.

Where to download it

Open kololingo.com/download on your computer. The page offers the right file for it: a .dmg for a Mac (with separate files for Apple silicon and Intel Macs) or a Setup .exe for Windows. You can also get there from your account menu: click your name, then Desktop app.

Install it on a Mac

1. Open the file you downloaded (KoloLingo … .dmg).
2. Drag KoloLingo into the Applications folder.
3. Open KoloLingo from Applications and sign in with your KoloLingo email and password.

The first time you open it, your Mac asks whether you want to open an app downloaded from the internet. Click Open. KoloLingo is signed and checked by Apple, so you only see this once.

The first time you join a lesson, your Mac asks whether KoloLingo may use the camera and the microphone. Click Allow. The first time you share your screen, your Mac asks for Screen & System Audio Recording permission: allow KoloLingo in System Settings, then reopen the app.

Install it on Windows

1. Open the file you downloaded (KoloLingo-Setup … .exe).
2. KoloLingo installs itself in a few seconds and opens.
3. Sign in with your KoloLingo email and password. From now on KoloLingo is in the Start menu.

KoloLingo is signed by Innovium ApS. While the app is new, Windows may still show "Windows protected your PC": check that the publisher is Innovium ApS, click More info, then Run anyway.

Signing in with Google or Apple

Click Continue with Google (or Apple) as usual. KoloLingo opens your web browser for that step, because Google does not allow signing in inside other apps. Sign in there, click Open KoloLingo, and the app opens again, signed in.

Sharing your screen in a lesson

1. In the lesson, click Share in the bar at the bottom.
2. A window opens with everything you can share: your screens at the top, then each open window.
3. Click the one you want and click Share. On Windows you can tick Share computer sound to play a video or a listening exercise with sound.
4. Click Share in the lesson bar again to stop.

Notifications and calls

• The app keeps running when you close its window, so calls and messages still reach you. On a Mac it stays in the Dock; on Windows, next to the clock.
• A new message or booking shows as a system notification. Click it to open that page in the app.
• When you are Free now, a student's instant call rings in the app, even with the window closed. The app comes to the front so you can answer.
• To stop everything, quit the app: KoloLingo → Quit on a Mac, or right-click the KoloLingo icon next to the clock and choose Quit KoloLingo on Windows.

Updates

The app updates itself. To check by hand, use Check for updates in the KoloLingo menu (Mac) or the Help menu (Windows; press Alt if the menu bar is hidden).