No two students, teachers, or classrooms are the same. At Vista Higher Learning, we recognize this and provide technology options that work for today and can grow with you for years to come. Whether your class is 100% digital or you only use technology to access teaching tools and resources, we can provide solutions that fit any curriculum or infrastructure.
Everything the Supersite offers, plus:
D’accord! provides plenty of practice, communication tools, engaging media, and a safe environment for students to learn.
Video Virtual Chats: Students create simulated conversations by responding to questions delivered by video recordings of native speakers.
News and Cultural Updates: Access monthly links to carefully curated authentic resources from across the francophone world—from online newspaper articles to TV news segments. Each selection includes a scaffolded activity sequence leveled for built-in differentiation.
Animated Grammar Tutorials: Feature guided instruction with interspersed quick-checks to keep students on track and ensure comprehension. These tutorials entertain and inform students by pairing grammar rules with fun explanations and examples.
Communication Tools: Group Chat and Partner Chat help students develop their interpersonal communication skills! With Group Chat (available in PRIME), small groups of students work synchronously to record a conversation in the target language, while Partner Chat activities allow students to carry out synchronous conversations in pairs via video/audio.
Vocabulary Tutorials: Feature a cyclical learning sequence that optimizes comprehension and retention—Listen & repeat, Match, Say it. Audio hints and cognate/false cognate icons help students understand and remember new vocabulary (available in PRIME).
Speech Recognition: Embedded in the Vocabulary Tutorials, Pronunciation Tutorials, and Roman-photo, identifies student utterances in real time and objectively determines whether a student knows the word. This innovative technology increases student awareness of pronunciation through low-stakes production practice (available in PRIME).
The student site provides:
Time-saving tools, powerful course management, assessment solutions, and enhanced support.
Time-saving tools: We’ve done the heavy lifting for you by providing everything you need to plan, prepare, teach, and assess.
Powerful course management: Monitor student progress, communicate securely with students, and track and report on student effort and outcomes.
Assessment Builder: Expand your testing possibilities with the new Assessment Builder. This vhlcentral feature makes it fast and easy to customize online tests and exams. Learn how to create your own questions from scratch or leverage any existing quiz, test, or exam content from any lesson within the same program. Assessment Builder provides the versatility you need with time-saving and reliable technology you deserve. Or quickly create/edit assessments by using our question banks.
Enhanced Support: Get all the support and guidance you need—from face-to-face presentations to instructional videos on a variety of topics.