Through initial diagnostic assessments, the platform will identify your child’s knowledge gaps and misconceptions and push relevant micro-lessons (or nuggets) into the student’s learning pathway. The pathway is adaptive and will learn how the student learns.

Another option is for you to assign courses and nuggets yourself within the parent’s dashboard. Your child will immediately be able to see and work on whatever is assigned. 

Completed assignments will show up in the parent’s dashboard, along with scores and other relevant information. 

Our Experience with Virtua Education

I particularly appreciated the AI aspect of the software, which tailored the learning experience specifically to my children’s abilities. The diagnostic testing, adaptive learning and intervention strategies were very helpful!

My children loved the instant feedback within each nugget. One of the hardest part of working with 8 kiddos simultaneously is that the kids end up frequently waiting for my attention. I liked that part, too, because grading takes a lot of time. I’m happy to let it go!

My favorite part of the software is the teacher dashboard. You can see at a glance what your child has completed and exactly where he might have errors or misconceptions. You can see how much time your child spent and in which courses. And you can easily switch back and forth between your children so you can keep tabs on all of them.

The learning platform itself is very intuitive. I had to click around a bit to figure out how to assign course to my kiddos. It probably only took me about ten minutes to figure out. My kids worked it all out immediately. Each child should have his own login, and you, as the parent, will have your own login.

I haven’t looked through any of the math courses, but the courses we have completed or are currently working on have been extremely thorough and rigorous. In fact, they made me feel just a little deficient. 

I know that homeschooling works because my oldest three are attending university on full scholarships made possible near-perfect ACT scores. So I’m not going to let a little deficiency make me feel guilty. I’m just going to embrace the rigor that someone else is willing to provide!

Seriously, Virtua could make your job as a homeschool mom easy! I love our math curriculum so much (Saxon Math) that I’m going to keep that for myself, but I’m thrilled to let Virtua take some of the teaching responsibility off of my plate!

I seriously limit my kid’s time online (because they lose all sense of time and place and end up watching other kids play with their toys or cat videos!) but Virtua is worth making time for! I recommend using Virtua for only one or two courses if you, like me, limit your children’s screen time. 

Another great way to use Virtua would be as a supplement to the curriculum you already use. It would be a great tool for diagnosing and rectifying educational gaps or misconceptions because your child could only complete nuggets which were suggested for remediation by the AI tool.

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