In some cases, the exercises replicate those in the textbook, but often they expand on those in the text to let students work through a series of exercises that build in difficulty and complexity. Just as in the OLC , each chapter culminates with a reading or writing exercise of extended prose. A list of them are available on the Cornell College Latin links page . Features Scriba is easy to use. Students who have tested it at both the high school and college level have had no trouble learning how to run Scriba .
Students can work at their own pace.
Students receive immediate feedback and learn the correct answer right away. The program anticipates certain common mistakes and provides students with hints that will lead to the correct answer. Tutorial screens on morphology, syntax, and even some points of English grammar have been designed for each chapter. Realistic contexts help students learn to read and write Latin using the clues embedded within sentences and paragraphs. An index invites students of other textbooks to use it to review grammar and vocabulary and to test reading comprehension.