For ASL 4+ teachers and ITP directors · launching fall 2026

The textbook for the level past the alphabet drill.

You already have ASL 1, 2, and 3 figured out. The trouble starts at ASL 4 — the level where students should be learning when a word gets fingerspelled, how lexicalized handshapes work, what an initialized sign actually does. There isn't a great textbook for that. Think ASL is. Officially launching the fall 2026 semester — we're taking school and ITP inquiries now to wire your LMS in time for fall.

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A teacher's-eye view

What you actually deal with on a Monday.

You have 50-minute periods.

Think ASL is structured for them. Each lesson is a 15-minute lecture video (captioned, slow-motion-able), a short reading, and a quiz of ten to twenty questions. Students can do all three in one period, or split it across two.

Your students are mixed-skill.

Unlimited attempts. Highest grade keeps. Slow any quiz video to half-speed. The students who already know the pattern fly through; the ones who need the reps get them, on their own time, without holding the room back.

You need to grade something.

Every quiz auto-grades server-side. Pass at 80% to unlock the next lesson; 90% for certificate-eligible attempts on the comprehensive practices. The numbers show up in your gradebook the second the student submits.

You don't want to manage another login system.

You don't have to. We're LTI 1.3 only — one config blob in Canvas, Schoology, Blackboard, D2L, or Brightspace, and your roster flows in automatically. No CSV uploads. No accounts to provision. No password resets in your inbox.

A typical 50-minute block

Lesson 4: Compound Words.

Here's how the period actually goes. Students launch from your course shell, do the work, and the grades land in your gradebook before the bell.

0–5 Settle & launch. Students click the Think ASL link in your LMS course; they're signed in automatically over LTI 1.3.

5–20 Lecture. 12-minute captioned video on single-word, two-word, and hyphenated compounds — when each form takes which fingerspelling pattern. Students who need it can slow to 0.75x or 0.5x.

20–25 Reading. Two pages of structured notes from Gary's textbook, plus the transcription conventions in a sidebar.

25–45 Quiz. 30 fill-in-multi-blank questions. Camera input for the camera-eligible blanks; typing for the rest. Slow-motion on every video. Unlimited attempts.

45–50 Wrap. Mastery state syncs to your gradebook. Students who didn't finish keep their progress for tomorrow. You see who passed in real-time on your teacher console.

What you get

Drop in, hand out, grade nothing.

LTI 1.3 install in your LMS

One configuration in Canvas, Schoology, Blackboard, D2L, or Brightspace. Deep Linking 2.0 so you can drop a specific lesson or quiz as an external-tool assignment. AGS for grade passback. NRPS for roster sync.

Rosters that update themselves

Add a student to your course tomorrow — they appear in Think ASL the same day. Drop a student — their access ends. No CSVs, no manual sync, no end-of-semester roster cleanup.

Grades flow back automatically

Every quiz attempt's highest grade lands in your gradebook the moment a student submits. You see the same number in two places. No reconciling.

Mastery, not seat time

80% to unlock the next lesson. 90% for certificate-eligible practices. Unlimited attempts; highest grade keeps. The pedagogy is the gate, not the clock.

Camera frames stay on the device

Recognition runs in the student's browser. We never transmit video. Only the recognized letter reaches our server, and only when the student submits. This matters for district privacy review, and it matters because it's true.

Captions on by default

Every lecture and quiz video ships with a reviewed caption track. The course is fully usable with audio muted, on a Chromebook with broken speakers, or in a quiet lab without headphones.

Preview the whole course

Request a teacher review account.

We give every ASL teacher and ITP director full read-access to the whole course — all twelve lessons, all five comprehensive practices, every quiz. No card on file. No time limit. Decide whether it fits your program; if it does, the LTI install takes us about a week to wire into your LMS together.

You fill the form on /contact/.

Pick "School license inquiry" and tell us your school, your LMS, and roughly how many students per term.
We email you a magic link.

One-click sign-in, no password. Full read-access to the curriculum within the day.
You take it for a spin.

Watch the lectures, run a quiz, look at the teacher console mockups. Talk to colleagues. Take the time you need.
If it fits, we wire the LTI install.

We send you the configuration JSON for your LMS. Your district IT pastes it in. Test launch with a colleague's account. Roll out to students the next term.

Request a teacher review account →

For programs sizing a real adoption

Talk to me about Think ASL for my program.

Past the review-account stage and ready to discuss a pilot, a multi-section adoption, an ITP cohort license, or a district-level rollout? Send a note and I'll write back within two business days. We don't have a sales team. You'll be talking to Anthony.

Talk to me about Think ASL for my program →

Privacy posture, briefly

Think ASL acts as a school official under FERPA when used by US institutions under contract. The school owns the educational record; we're the custodian. School student PII lives only in your per-school sub-sheet that your admin contact has direct access to — the shared control sheet keeps nothing more than opaque IDs. We don't run third-party analytics SDKs on learners. We don't sell data. We don't auto-caption ASL. Full detail on the privacy page.