What We Do

Virtual Teaching Assistants (Virtual-TA)

Virtual-TA is a powerful, new way to improve student learning. It takes the idea of Teaching Assistants in universities (who grade papers and provide feedback, so as to free up professors to teach large classes or conduct research) and adds a web-mediated dimension. The result is a Virtual Teaching Assistant, or a Virtual-TA. Like an on-campus TA, our Virtual-TAs take their instructions from your faculty, familiarize themselves with the course, the textbook, and supplementary readings and assignments.

We carefully select Masters- or PhD-qualified professionals in a wide array of academic disciplines, train them in the art of providing rich feedback and the use of rubrics and assign them to work with your teaching faculty. Of course, there is a lot more to the service, such as standardized processes to ensure we meet academic standard, pedagogical integrity and instructor preferences. We've developed a tech platform that uniquely allows our TAs to electronically embed rich commentary directly into student assignments – and much more! Be sure to check out the section on Benefits that highlights the many benefits that flow from using the Virtual-TA service.

So if your institution is struggling with finding qualified faculty to keep up with the demand for higher education, then the Virtual-TA service is ideal for you. We have the TAs: only you can decide if your institution’s most prized and expensive resources are being utilized in line with what they were trained for: to create and disseminate knowledge!