Virtuoso's features provide a shared learning environment where you can lead the class as well as one in which students are encouraged to easily share information with each other, collaborate on projects and assignments, and very importantly have more opportunity to speak in the target language. Class activity is easily viewed and controlled by you, using the Virtuoso graphical user interface on your PC monitor. Everyone benefits as class time becomes more productive and ultimately more rewarding. Here is just a sampling of how Virtuoso can assist you---the possibilities are much greater depending upon your creativity and your individual teaching style!
More Speaking and Listening
- Everyone hears high quality digital audio and comfortably communicates using high quality headsets.
- Students work together in pairs or groups that you select, allowing more time to practice speaking and communicating and the ability to speak more easily with each other in the target language. The student groups or pairs can change at will enabling more communication between all students.
- You may speak to individual students, pairs or groups of students, without disturbing the activities of the rest of the class.
- Students practice listening and speaking using comparative recording, that is, they listen to a lesson or any audio passage, and record their own responses and then compare the two.
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Get and Keep your Students' Attention
- Prompt students to stop what they are doing by "Locking the Student's Keyboard and Mouse or get their attention by "Blanking" their screens.
- With the Built-In Internet Browser, you control student Internet surfing by selecting web pages for them and displaying the pages on their PCs.
- To maximize class time, open any program or copy files to the students' desktops so they can begin working immediately.
- Easily and quickly share video with students, using a USB camera, video capture card, or any other Video for Windows ® device.
- View a "snapshot" of each student's screen to get a quick visual image of each student's progress.
- Send a written comment or instruction to a student by "text note".
- Share keyboard and mouse control with a student or fully control a student's PC.
- Students needing help use the "call teacher" button for assistance without disturbing the rest of the class.
- Share an on screen "model" of a student's work with the entire class.
- Adding to the verbal communication, students share ideas in writing with "text chat" or by annotation on a shared "whiteboard".
- Quickly measure class comprehension using multiple choice and/or true/false tests easily prepared and administered using the "Response Analyzer Testing Utility".
A Lesson in Time Savings
Monitor and Coach Students Easily
Focus on Collaborative Learning
Measuring Progress
