Ensure Auto-detect (PREVIEW) in Reading Progress uses your intended language

Applies To
Microsoft Teams Microsoft Teams for Education

Auto-detect is a PREVIEW feature in Reading Progress that estimates errors based on common pronunciation. Auto-detect supports a number of dialects and pronunciations, and may assess student performance poorly if it interprets the uploaded document as the wrong language. For example, it may detect errors in a French document because it is monitoring for French pronunciation instead of French Canadian pronunciation. To ensure your documents are detected properly, follow the steps below.

Note

Passages from the sample library cannot be edited and will be interpreted as American English by Auto-detect. 

Edit language in Reading Progress

You can now set your language preferences right in Reading Progress. 

  1. Select Import Word or PDF and choose a page from Class Notebook, a Word document, or PDF to create your Reading Progress assignment.

screenshot showing the dropdown after selecting upload word of pdf

2⁠. Select Edit. 

screenshot showing a passage in place with the cursor hovering over the edit button

3⁠. Open the language dropdown and select your desired language.

screenshot showing the dropdown to select a language

4⁠. Select the checkmark to apply your changes.

Auto-detect will listen for the language you selected when interpreting students' errors.