xliff.ai teacher kit · Version 1, November 2026

Six exercises for teaching bilingual files

For a lab session with xliff.ai, the free translation editor that runs in the browser: nothing to install, no accounts, and no file leaves the computer. English → German.

What is inside

lesson-plan.html: a one-page plan for a 90-minute session, and a second one.
student-files/: hand this folder to students. The six exercise files, the memory, two termbases and the client's review workbook, with exercises.html (the six briefs) and quick-start.html (one page: opening a file, the keys, handing in).
teacher-only/: keep this. An answer key for each exercise, and reference/, a reference translation of each exercise file to compare a student's export with.

#	Exercise	Files	Time
1	First translation	`01-garden-visitor-guide.xlf`	20 min
2	Tags and placeholders	`02-app-release-notes.sdlxliff`	20 min
3	Find the errors	`03-grinder-guide.mqxliff`, `03-grinder-terms.tbx`	25 min
4	Translation memory	`04-garden-visitor-guide-2027.mqxliff`, `04-garden-memory.tmx`	20 min
5	Terminology	`05-bike-share-help.sdlxliff`, `05-bike-share-terms.tbx`	20 min
6	Review in Excel	`06-bakery-newsletter.xlf`, `06-client-review.xlsx`	20 min

What students need

A desktop or laptop with a current Chrome or Edge; xliff.ai is tested in those two. Nothing is installed and no administrator rights are needed. Exercise 6 needs Excel to read the client's workbook, and to fill one in for the pair version.

Work is saved in the browser on the computer it was done on, and nowhere else. On a shared lab computer it comes back to whoever opens the same file there, so students should export, hand in, and then clear the site's data in the browser before they leave.

Marking

Each answer key says what to look for. To set a student's file beside the reference, open Compare two files on xliff.ai, put the student's export on Before and the file of the same name from teacher-only/reference/ on After. It shows every segment that differs as tracked changes, with its edit distance, as an HTML or Excel report. Several files at once are paired by name, so one student's six exports can go in together.

Said plainly

xliff.ai has no team server and no class dashboard: students hand in exported files the way your course already collects work.
It opens bilingual files; it does not make them from Word documents. That step stays in Trados Studio or memoQ, which is why the kit brings its own files.
Its exports are tested byte for byte, but they have not yet been opened in Trados Studio and memoQ themselves.

Adapting the kit

Every file is plain text except the workbook, so any text editor can change the exercises. To make a version for another language pair, the TMX, the two termbases and the translated targets of exercises 3 and 6 need translating too. Corrections, new exercises and language versions are welcome at xliff@terratra.com.

Free to use, copy and adapt under CC BY 4.0: xliff.ai teacher kit, Terratra OÜ. The texts were written for this kit, and the places, products and businesses in them are invented. Trados and memoQ are trademarks of their respective owners. xliff.ai is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to them.