In this step, you will set the range of coverage for your course, indicate what level of Supersite access you expect students to have for your course, select assigning tools, and select the settings for various student supports, including video and audio playback, technical support, and chat.
NOTE: In Express setup, this will be named “Assignments.” From here, there will be an option to choose assignments from a previous course or add specific learning tracks. The gradebook categories will be predetermined.
1. The “Use Settings from…” drop-down is preset to the last course you created or to the course selected in step 1 of the wizard. You may change the selection to another course by clicking on the drop-down menu and making a new selection.
2. Select the vhlcentral Access Level that students are expected to have for the course.
NOTE: For selected titles, you may choose an access level with or without WebSAM, Cahier interactif, or eCuaderno (K12 education titles) components, if applicable.
3. The STANDARD SETS, currently available for Bridges, Engage, Connect and Get Ready 6-8 / 9-12 Supersite titles only, enable educators to include content by state and national standards suitable for English Language Development (ELD) or multilingual learners who will be enrolled in the course.
NOTE: Select one or multiple standard sets.
With standards-based assigning, educators may:
- Easily search for relevant state and national standards and see content that satisfies those standards.
- Quickly review content results and assign content to an individual student or an entire section of students.
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In conjunction with our new standards-driven performance reports, educators may easily identify the standards a student needs more work on and instantly find and assign additional content that targets a specific standard or skill.
NOTE: For more information, visit our online article: What’s New on vhlcentral for academic Year 2025-2026.
4. On the Assignment Settings, set the lesson coverage for your course by selecting a first lesson and last lesson from the drop-down menus.
NOTE: Depending on the lesson privileges of the code purchased by students, they may or may not be able to access other lessons.
5. You may enable the translation feature to allow your students to view English translations for terms in Vocabulary Tutorial assignments.
NOTE: By default, the translation feature is disabled. Click the checkbox to enable it.
6. You can opt to display or hide estimated time to complete assigned activities.
NOTE: By default, time estimation data is displayed in the assignment menu within the student dashboard.
7. The Assigning Tools option allows you to assign an activity or an assessment to selected students in a section; click the checkbox to enable the tool.
8. Click the checkbox to enable Portfolio. A learning Portfolio is a purposeful collection of student work that shows a student’s effort, progress, achievements, and competencies gained during a course or over time.
To learn more about Portfolio, visit our online article: vhlcentral Portfolio: Instructor Guides.
9. The Media Settings you see will vary depending on whether a course is created from scratch or if it’s copied from a previous course where the settings differed.
- If the newly created course was copied from another course, the settings will be the same as the previous course's.
- If the newly created course is being created from scratch, it will take the program default settings, which are:
- Video Subtitles and Closed Captions: Target language
- Video Transcripts: Off
- Audio Transcripts: Off
NOTE: To customize your default Media Settings, navigate to Settings for video and audio transcripts, subtitles, and closed captions
10. In Student Support Requests, you can opt to allow students to contact you with questions about their submission scores (fill-in-the-blank questions only) or for general assistance with assignments. Options include:
- Allow students to submit to you assignment help requests before their final attempt.
- Allow students to submit to you assignment score review requests, after their final attempt.
NOTE: If you don’t enable this option, students may still report content errors or technical problems to VHL Support from the “Help” menu.
11. In Chat, you can opt to allow students to communicate using audio and video chat features. (Select only one.)
- Never available: When selected, disables all chat capabilities for students enrolled in your course, including Partner Chat activities.
- Only in Partner Chat activities: When selected, enables chat capabilities for students enrolled in your course in Partner Chat activities only (default setting).
- Always available: When selected, enables all chat capabilities for students enrolled in your course, including Partner and Live Chat.
12. In AI Chat, you can opt to allow students to communicate with an AI Partner to complete virtual chat assignments. (Select only one.) Options include:
- Never available: When selected, disables all AI chat capabilities for students enrolled in your course.
- Always available: When selected, enables all AI chat capabilities for students enrolled in your course.
NOTE: To learn more about AI Chat, visit our online article AI Chat.
13. Click “Next” to move to the Gradebook step.
NOTE: You may return to the previous step to make changes by clicking the “Previous” button.