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The Supersite is the first and best online learning environment designed specifically for world language learning.
—Esther Holtermann, American University
—Dominique M. Hitchcock, Norco College
—Karen Julka-Tischhauser, Seattle Pacific University
—Kimberly Z Lowry, Asbury University
—Kaitlyn Hall, Pacific Lutheran University
Discover what 25 years of experience dedicated exclusively to world language can do for you.
- Engaging Media
- Safe and Effective Learning Environment
- Communication Tools and Speech Recognition
- Animated and Interactive Grammar Tutorials
- Intercultural Connection
- Flexibility with Customizable Content and Easy Course Set-up
- LMS Integration
- Editable Assessment Solutions
- Time-Saving Grading Tools
- Gradebook Analytics
- Reliable Online Platform
- Enhanced Support and Partnership
For Students
Engaging Media
Immerse your students in real-world language
The Supersite seamlessly integrates comprehensible, authentic and cultural media into the curriculum, providing students with a real-world context for language use. This media deepens student understanding of social and cultural norms, allowing them to explore the rich heritage of the target language.
Safe and Effective Learning Environment
Learning a new language takes practice. The Supersite offers diverse, program-specific practice activities for language learning. With an intuitive interface, innovative tools, and seamless tech integration, it fosters a safe space, helping instructors reach and engage students in language and culture.
- Hundreds of program-specific, themed practice activities in various formats to reinforce language skills
- User-friendly interface, innovative tools
- Fosters a safe digital space for language and culture.
Develop your students’ interpersonal communication skills
To become effective communicators, students need opportunities to speak in low-stakes environments and interact with one another in the classroom and online. The Supersite provides a safe social place with a variety of activity types to support multiple learning and teaching styles.
Speech Recognition
Get students talking with Speech Recognition
Speech recognition technology has revolutionized language learning. It allows students to practice their pronunciation and get instant feedback on how they’re doing. These low stakes activities offer students a safe space to practice and increase their confidence – while giving class time back to the instructor to engage in meaningful communication.
Animated and Interactive Grammar Tutorials
Reserve class time for meaningful communication with Interactive Grammar Tutorials
Save class time by assigning interactive grammar tutorials that provide students with engaging explanations of grammar concepts and opportunities to practice in the target language. Students come to class prepared to chat with you and their classmates.
News and Cultural Updates
Provide students with opportunities to make intercultural connections with videos and articles pulled straight from the headlines
Each month we release carefully curated activities based on online news articles and TV news segments from across the target cultures. We find the articles and news videos and build the activities, instructors can assign or use in class to enhance their curriculum with up-to-date authentic resources to ensure ongoing relevance and engagement.
For Educators
Customizable Course
Design your course to be exactly what you want it to be!
Your course should be exactly what you want it to be and you should be able to independently make changes anytime throughout the course. Change due dates, add new assignments, even assign different activities to different students, or add a personalized note to any activity, all with a quick click of the mouse.
Instructors are empowered by the ease-of-use, flexibility, and dependability of the Supersite. A setup wizard lets you customize your course settings, copy previous courses to save time, and create your all-in-one gradebook. Choose what content you want to use and how you want to use it.
You can even add your own content! With 16 activity types to choose from, your creativity will have no bounds!
LMS Integrations
Now our market-leading platform is easier to integrate with your learning management system (LMS) than ever before! To further enhance the integration between the Supersite and your LMS, we offer the following new and improved functionality based on the LTI Advantage integration standard:
- Single Sign-on to access the Supersite from within your LMS
- Deep Linking to simplify course building in the LMS
- Grade Passback between the course gradebook and LMS
Vista Higher Learning offers an integration with Blackboard, Canvas, D2L, and Moodle.
Assessment Builder
Reach Your Unique Course Objectives
Instructors are at the heart of everything we do, and we kept that in mind when building our assessment builder feature. The Assessment Builder makes it possible for you to achieve your unique course objectives.
You can easily combine existing content from any course or module to create a new assessment. You can also edit student-facing titles and write new questions using a variety of assessment templates. With the randomization option, each student gets a totally unique exam, which means you get a little bit more peace of mind.
Time-Saving Grading Tools
Don’t let grading time keep you from assigning creative and proficiency-based activities
Convenient options for grading include spotchecking, student-by-student, and question-by-question approaches. Plus, in-line editing tools and voice comments provide additional opportunities for targeted feedback.
Gradebook Analytics
Provide insight on student performance
Save time and always know when to check in on students’ progress with analytics embedded in the Supersite. The Gradebook includes advanced analytics of how well your section or individual students are performing overall and in the last two weeks.
Join our community of successful instructors who have transformed their language classrooms
Out platform supports hundreds of thousands of courses and millions of students in their language studies.
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Our Commitment to Accessibility
Vista Higher Learning (VHL) uses the standards established in Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. 794d) and W3C (WCAG 2.1) guidelines to evaluate and improve its digital products.
VHL maintains a Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) for its online products. The VPAT is available to qualified instructors and administrators via VHL Technical Support at 800.922.6003 or via email at accessibility@vistahigherlearning.com.
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Vista Higher Learning is dedicated to elevating language teaching and learning through top-notch print and digital solutions. For over 25 years, we have been committed to empowering educators and students with research-based materials that tackle 21st-century language-learning challenges.