ViLLE is a learning platform where students can work no matter the time or place. Teachers can use existing materials or create their own to suit the needs of students. Personalised teaching is easy to organise with exercise sets that take into account the student’s level.

Almost all exercises in ViLLE are assessed automatically. This means that students receive immediate feedback on their work. Through automation questions can be randomly chosen from a large predetermined set and students’ submissions can be scored immediately.

In addition to automatically assessed exercises, ViLLE includes exercises that can be assessed by the teacher. Teachers can review students’ work as well as comment and score them. Students can then view the assessment after it has been submitted. Advanced courses in ViLLE often blend automatically and manually assessed exercises; attendances and simpler exercises can be assessed automatically which allows the teacher to focus on grading learning journals and essays.

ViLLE presents the teacher with valuable information regarding students’ progress and issues affecting their learning. With learning analytics, teachers can identify issues challenging students at an early stage. Information can be surveyed on individual or group level.

Below are a couple of examples of the learning analytics of ViLLE.

Checking the overall progress of a lesson is simple: ViLLE visualises students accuracy, points, and time spent on task.

ViLLE can visualise the student performance in different areas of mathematics.

The same exercises that are used during class can be used in ViLLE exams. When exam mode is activated, students can work on their given tasks without receiving immediate feedback. Exams can include both automatically and manually assessed exercises and the results can be made available to students immediately after assessment. The exam mode includes a monitor view in which teachers can keep track of the students’ progress.

Students can work on tasks in pairs or groups by using a single device. With the team work mode active, the achieved scores are automatically shared between students in a group. Tasks can also be anonymously peer reviewed so that only the teacher can see who has submitted which reviews.

Teachers can add other teachers as assistant teachers on their courses. Assistant teachers can manage the course and its contents as well as follow the students’ progress. This is useful for special education teachers and other specialists who might wish to observe certain issues arising in the class.

Students can work on tasks in pairs or groups by using a single device. With the team work mode active, the achieved scores are automatically shared between students in a group. Tasks can also be anonymously peer reviewed so that only the teacher can see who has submitted which reviews.

Teachers can add other teachers as assistant teachers on their courses. Assistant teachers can manage the course and its contents as well as follow the students’ progress. This is useful for special education teachers and other specialists who might wish to observe certain issues arising in the class.

Tutorials are a special feature of ViLLE. They combine different exercises with various learning materials such as pictures, videos or lecture handouts. Usually students work on tutorials in groups of two to four. The feature is based on the concept of construcivism that emphasises the active role of a student as a learner while the teacher supports students requiring extra help. Tutorials have been used to great success in the programming courses of the University of Turku: after the implementation of tutorials grades have improved significantly and student feedback has been very positive.