Frequently asked questions.

Do I need the extension?

Only if you want to collect guided notes from a course. You can upload one PDF or several PDFs directly to the website without the extension.

Which courses can I collect notes from?

The collector supports Edmentum Courseware and Apex-based study guides using your signed-in teacher preview. Guided notes may appear in tutorials, study activities, or other lesson types. Mastery tests, pre-tests, and post-tests are skipped.

How do I collect a course?

Open the class in teacher preview, then open the Dreamtranslator extension. Choose Find lessons, review the selection, and choose Collect selected lessons. If topics are missing, expand them in Courseware and scan again. Keep the collector open while it works. For Apex, leave Show Answers off.

Why won’t a lesson open the first time?

Chrome may be blocking Edmentum’s pop-up lesson windows. In the Edmentum tab, click the Pop-up blocked icon at the right end of the address bar. Select Always allow pop-ups and redirects from the Edmentum address shown, then click Done. Return to the collector and retry the blocked lessons.

See the first-time setup steps or Chrome’s pop-up help. If your school locks this setting, ask your technology team to allow it for Edmentum.

How do the notes reach the website?

In the collector, choose Open Dreamtranslator, then Send notes to website. The website accepts the PDFs automatically. Once they appear, you can download the English notes or start translating.

Can I download all the English originals without translating?

Yes. Choose Download English Zip in the batch section once the PDFs appear. It saves the original PDFs together, organized by course and unit. You can also download them after translation. The original PDF contents stay unchanged.

How do I download the Spanish notes?

Choose 2. Translate notes in the batch section and follow the progress bar. When translation finishes, choose 3. Download Spanish ZIP. You can also download each completed Spanish PDF from its row. For a single document, use Translate one PDF and then Download PDF.

Will students still have spaces to write their answers?

The translated output keeps printable writing spaces and fits Spanish text within the worksheet layout. Interactive fillable form fields are not preserved. Check the finished PDFs before sharing them with students.

Why does the first translation take longer?

The browser may need to download language files before translating. Keep the page open while it works. The batch progress bar shows progress and how many PDFs have translated or failed.

What happens if I refresh or close the page?

The documents and translations in that page are cleared. Download the ZIP before leaving. The website and collector have separate collections, so refreshing one does not clear the other. Files already downloaded to your computer stay there.

What should I do if a lesson or translation fails?

For collection problems, open Activity & troubleshooting in the extension and download the collection report. For translation problems, use Retry failed PDFs. Completed Spanish PDFs remain available in the current tab. Scanned PDFs use OCR automatically. Text inside embedded diagrams is read automatically. If text is still missed, try Scan the whole page with OCR before translating. Each uploaded PDF or image must be 25 MB or smaller.

Where are my PDFs processed?

The website processes PDFs in your browser, using browser translation when available or a locally running translation model. It does not upload your PDFs or their text to a Dreamtranslator translation server. See Privacy for details.

Can I translate scanned pages or photos?

Yes. Upload a scanned PDF, JPG, PNG, or WebP image. OCR reads printed English text before translation. Images become PDFs, including in the English ZIP. Embedded diagrams are read automatically. If text is still missed, try Scan the whole page with OCR. Use sharp, upright, full-size scans (ideally at least 1500 pixels wide for a document page). Enlarging a thumbnail does not restore lost detail. OCR may stop and ask for a clearer source when confidence is low. It can still misread words in blurry images. Ruled tables are read cell by cell to keep columns separate. Handwriting and complex image backgrounds may not translate accurately. The first OCR run downloads language files. If the browser translator is unavailable, the higher-precision fallback model may also take time to download.

Is this still a beta?

Yes. Please share problems and suggestions with the staff member who introduced Dreamtranslator at your school. Include the course and lesson name, what you were trying to do, and the error message so the issue is easier to investigate.