Learning is just a click away
Discover the Supersite—the only online learning environment created specifically for world language acquisition. Developed based on input from thousands of language educators and students, the Supersite makes teaching easier for you and language learning more successful for your students.
For students
Plenty of practice
Learning a new language takes practice. With the Supersite, students have hundreds of program-specific, thematically based, and carefully scaffolded practice activities right at their fingertips.
Safe environment
Language learning can be intimidating for many students. With its uncluttered interface, innovative tools, and seamless textbook-technology integration, the Supersite will help you reach students and build their love of language in a safe digital space.
Engaging media
Episodic storyline videos, authentic short films, synchronous video chat activities, audio-sync readings, and audio by native speakers ... the Supersite has it all.
For educators
Time-saving tools
No need to spend 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. The Supersite provides everything you need to plan, prepare, teach, and assess.
Powerful course management
Choose what you use and how you use it. With the Supersite, 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 the Supersite to its fullest potential—from face-to-face presentations and weekly training webinars by fellow educators, to pre-recorded videos on a variety of topics.
Make language and culture come alive
With a focus on building proficiency, the Supersite provides students with a safe, engaging place to connect their own lives with the authentic, contemporary language and culture of the target language.
Communication tools
To become effective communicators, students need opportunities to interact with one another in the classroom and online. The Supersite provides a safe social space for developing students' interpersonal and presentational communication skills.
Video Virtual Chat
These activities provide students with opportunities to develop their listening and speaking skills and to build confidence as they practice with recordings of native speakers.
Partner Chat
These activities allow students to carry out a conversation in pairs via video or audio. This synchronous chat tool provides for the elements of true interpersonal communication: conversational collaboration, spontaneity, creativity, and negotiation of meaning.
Forums
Online discussion boards where students can post text or audio information and respond to their classmates’ posts. They are a great tool for providing your students with opportunities to engage asynchronously.
Interactive grammar tutorials
Research shows that a little humor engages students, stimulates the brain, and helps with memory retention. Interactive grammar tutorials entertain and inform students by pairing grammar rules with fun explanations and examples. Available for Spanish, French, German and Chinese programs.
Vocabulary tools
Students can take control of their language learning by working with personalized vocabulary lists for each lesson. Interactive flashcards featuring target language words with audio and the English translation are available for fast and effective review and practice.
Simple. Powerful. Customizable.
With integrated content, comprehensive resources, and innovative tools, the Supersite provides everything you need to engage students and support language learning—all while making instruction easier.
Easy course management
A powerful setup wizard lets you customize your course settings, copy previous courses to save time, and create your all-in-one gradebook. Grades for instructor-created assignments (pop quizzes, class participation, etc.) can be incorporated for a true up-to-date cumulative grade.
Grading tools
Convenient options for grading include spot checking, student-by-student, and question-by-question approaches. Plus, in-line editing tools and voice comments provide additional opportunities for targeted feedback.
Assessment solutions
Administer pre-built online quizzes and tests or develop your own—such as open-ended writing prompts or chat activities for an oral assessment portfolio. You can also add your own text reference, image reference, or word bank to a section of a test.
Customized content
Tailor the Supersite to fit your needs. Create your own open-ended video Partner Chat activities, add video or outside resources, and modify existing content with personalized notes.
Interactive options
Our digital texts provide students with a portable and cost-saving version of the printed book.
Which digital option is right for your students?
vText (online Student Edition)
- Accessible via any PC or device with online connectivity
- Apple® iPad® mobile digital device friendly*
- Easy navigation with searchable table of contents and page number browsing
- Highlighting and note-taking functions
- Zooming plus single- and double-page view
- Links to Supersite mouse-icon textbook activities, audio, and video
- Completed Supersite assignments automatically recorded in instructor gradebook
- Access to all Supersite resources
eBook (downloadable Student Edition†)
- Accessible offline* and online
- Vocabulary audio for offline or online listening
- Easy navigation with searchable table of contents and page number browsing
- Highlighting and note-taking functions
- Zooming plus single-page viewing
- Links to Supersite mouse-icon textbook activities, audio, and video
- Completed vhlcentral assignments automatically recorded in instructor gradebook
When student is connected online:
- Links on the eBook page to Supersite mouse-icon textbook activities*, audio, and video
- Completed Supersite assignments automatically recorded in instructor gradebook
- Access to all Supersite resources
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