Get feedback and practice simultaneous online with GoReact

As more and more interpreting has gone virtual, we've all been searching for ways to teach and practice online.

Consecutive has proven relatively easy: Simply record yourself using your smartphone or computer, then send the recording to a peer. They can provide feedback in writing or even as a series of voice messages.

But simultaneous is trickier, since many remote interpreting platforms don't let you listen to the original and the interpretation at the same time. As a result, most colleagues connect to a meeting or practice session with two devices -- one to listen to the original and one to hear their colleague or the relay language. (If you're looking for tips on using a hardware or software mixer to hear students or colleagues in real-time settings, check out our free Getting the Right Mix mini-course. 🎛)

That is where GoReact comes in. The cloud-based video assessment platform lets students record an interpretation while listening to or watching a source, then review the two in sync. Trainers and peers can add time-coded text, audio, or video feedback, and newer tools such as searchable transcripts, live review, reusable rubrics, and AI-assisted delivery metrics make the feedback loop even richer.

Because GoReact supports synchronized video as well as audio, it is useful for both spoken- and signed-language interpreting practice. Let’s take a look!

Setting up an assignment

In GoReact, students access assignments in a virtual classroom. Trainers can preload source material for upcoming classes, practice sessions, exams, or an entire course, then control when an assignment is available.

The familiar assignment types are still there. A Standard assignment lets participants record or upload a response for feedback. Comment Only is useful when students need to analyze a speech or interpretation without recording a new rendition. But for simultaneous interpreting, the standout option remains the Stimulus assignment.

In a Stimulus assignment, participants watch a video, listen to audio, or work from another source prompt while recording their own rendition. GoReact keeps the source and the student response synchronized, which makes self-assessment and instructor feedback much easier.

For more formal practice or testing, trainers can also use controls such as single-attempt recording, time limits, and restrictions on rewinding or skipping source media where supported. Reusable assignment templates and shared libraries make it easier to build a bank of speeches, exams, and rubrics that can be reused across semesters.

The exact source-media workflow has evolved over time, so instead of relying on an old YouTube-specific setup, think more broadly: trainers can provide source media such as audio, video, slides, text, or other prompts, depending on the assignment.

(Our demo video shows you how to set up an assignment and listen back to dual-channel audio and video. It was created in 2021 and may not be fully up to date)

Reviewing your work

After interpreting, review the source and your rendition in sync. Use the track controls to adjust the volume or mute one side so you can focus on the source, your interpretation, or both together.

The newer platform also adds a useful extra layer: searchable, time-stamped transcripts in supported configurations. That can make it much faster to find a difficult number, phrase, hesitation, or omission and jump straight to the relevant moment in the recording.

For live classes, GoReact’s Live Review tools can let instructors or peers add feedback while a performance is still being recorded, with the comments remaining synchronized to the final video. That means GoReact can support asynchronous homework, live practice, and in-class assessment rather than only submit-and-review workflows.

Feedback

Synchronized source and response tracks are already useful, but the feedback features are still where GoReact really stands out.

GoReact links feedback to specific moments in a recording. Reviewers can leave text, audio, or video comments, then click a comment later to jump directly back to that point. That is particularly useful for pronunciation, terminology, delivery, or signed-language parameters such as handshape, use of space, and non-manual features.

Peer review has become a bigger part of the platform too. Trainers can decide who is allowed to see and comment on recordings, while invited peers can use the same kinds of time-coded feedback tools. Guest Review can also be useful when you want an outside practitioner or examiner to review selected submissions without giving them access to the entire course.

Rubrics and custom markers are still available and are more mature than when we first reviewed the platform. Interpreting programs can create reusable categories such as omission, addition, terminology, register, delivery, number error, self-correction, or effective strategy, then apply those labels consistently across assignments.

GoReact has also added AI-assisted feedback tools. Depending on the plan and language, its AI features can generate communication metrics and markers for things such as pacing, filler words, pauses, and hedging. These can be useful for delivery coaching, but they are not a substitute for an interpreting trainer: fluency metrics cannot tell you whether the message was transferred accurately or whether a terminology choice was appropriate.

The same caution applies to AI-generated comments. Treat them as an additional layer of feedback, especially for presentation behaviors, not as an automatic grade on interpreting quality. Human review remains essential for meaning, equivalence, strategy, terminology, and signed-language accuracy.

Want to see the GoReact feedback features in action? Check out our video. (Made in 2021)

Wrap-up

GoReact is now more than a web-based recording tool for university courses. It is a commercial video-based skills assessment and feedback platform used in higher education and professional training, with web and mobile access, broader LMS integration, progress reporting, reusable libraries, and multi-camera workflows.

For interpreting, the core reason to use it has not changed: Stimulus assignments make it easy to record the source and the simultaneous interpretation together, then review them in sync. What has changed is everything that can now sit around that workflow — searchable transcripts, Live Review, peer and guest feedback, reusable rubrics, AI delivery metrics, mobile access, and stronger reporting.

GoReact also integrates with LTI-compatible learning management systems such as Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle, and D2L. Zoom recordings can also be brought into GoReact for feedback and assessment, making it easier to connect live practice with structured review.

Since GoReact supports video natively, it remains a particularly strong option for both spoken- and signed-language interpreting. It is now part of Echo360, following Echo360’s acquisition of GoReact in 2025.

Full disclosure: GoReact provided techforword with a free evaluation license. This is our unbiased review.

This article was originally published in the April 2021 edition of the ToolBox Journal. Revised in August 2026.

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