Group Chats: Small groups of students work synchronously to record a conversation in the target language.

News and Cultural Updates: Access monthly links to carefully curated authentic resources from across the Spanish-speaking world—from online newspaper articles to TV news segments. Each selection includes a scaffolded activity sequence leveled for built-in differentiation.

Video Virtual Chats: Students create simulated conversations by responding to questions delivered by video recordings of native speakers (PRIME only).

Grammar Tutorial: La profesora López provides a humorous, engaging, and relatable approach to grammar instruction. Grammar Tutorials are short video capsules that offer guided instruction to keep students on track and ensure comprehension.

Un chin de… vocabulary videos engage students with short, funny video capsules featuring teen vloggers using target vocabulary in authentic contexts.

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Speech Recognition: Speech recognition embedded in the vocabulary tutorials and pronunciation tutorials identifies student utterances in real time and objectively determines whether they know the word. This innovative technology increases student awareness of pronunciation through low-stakes production practice (PRIME only).

Engaging Media: Students see vocabulary and language “in action” through the highly engaging Un chin de… vocabulary videos as well as through VideoMundo, featuring authentic TV clips and short films.

Time-saving tools: No need to spend your time hunting down authentic materials, finding the perfect video, crafting scaffolded activities, creating assessments, or grading homework. We’ve done the heavy lifting for you, providing everything you need to plan, prepare, teach, and assess.

Powerful course management: Choose what you use and how you use it. With vhlcentral, you can easily shape our curriculum to fit your instructional goals and teaching preferences. Plus, you can monitor student progress, communicate securely with individual students or the entire class, and track and report on student effort and outcomes.

Enhanced Support: Get all the guidance you need to use vhlcentral to its fullest potential—from face-to-face presentations and training webinars by fellow educators to pre-recorded videos on a variety of topics.

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; or quickly create/edit assessments by using our question banks. Assessment Builder provides the versatility you need with the time-saving and reliable technology you deserve. Now includes Question Bank.

Individualized Assigning: Easily monitor student progress, communicate securely with students, support differentiated instruction, and track and report on student outcomes.

Customizable Rubrics: Modify any existing activity rubric on vhlcentral. This feature helps you clarify student expectations and saves you time from having to create your own rubrics—all while ensuring timely and effective feedback to promote student growth.