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Lesson Planning

Voila provides a dedicated Lesson Planning page that brings together tools for preparing and personalising lessons, including the Teaching Assistant (a general-purpose AI exercise generator) and AI Learning Insights for each student.

Teaching Assistant​

The Teaching Assistant generates exercises you can use across multiple students at the same level.

Generating an Exercise​

  1. Go to Lesson Planning → Teaching Assistant.

  2. Choose:

    • Level
    • Target language
    • Mode — Listening, Writing, Speaking, or Reading
    • Mechanism — e.g., vocabulary in context, interpretation, pronunciation/stress
    • Exercise type — e.g., photo speculation, sentence completion
    • Theme/topic — e.g., ordering food at a restaurant
    • Optional grammar topics — e.g., adverbs of frequency
    • Additional instructions — specific grammar topics or custom requirements
    • N. of Items
    • Tone — formal or informal

  3. Click Generate.

The AI produces a complete exercise you can preview before saving. A listening exercise, for example, may include a transcript, key vocabulary, comprehension questions, and an answer key (hidden by default when inserted into a lesson).

Saving and Organising Exercises​

Save generated exercises into folders you name yourself. Saved exercises can be reused across any lesson or student. Use folders to organise by level, topic, or exercise type.

Personalised Talking Points​

The Teaching Assistant can generate conversation starters and talking points based on a student's previous lessons, drawing from past transcriptions.

Summary Templates​

Lesson summaries are automatically generated after each recorded session based on the transcript. You control the format using summary templates.

Default Template​

The built-in template includes:

  • Topics discussed — what the lesson covered
  • Vocabulary used — new words and phrases introduced
  • Grammar points — structures practised or taught
  • Progression — how the student is developing
  • Vocabulary expansion — new words recommended based on the lesson
  • Practice — sentences using the studied language content
  • Cultural recommendations — suggested content related to the lesson

Custom Templates​

Create custom templates on Summary Templates page. For example, a conversation-class template might focus on fluency notes and topic coverage without detailed grammar correction.

Templates can be:

  • Set as the default for a specific student (in per-student settings)
  • Changed per-lesson when creating or entering a session

Previewing Templates​

Preview how a template looks by applying it to a past lesson before committing to it.