Instructor's Experience

Portales offers an unparalleled digital learning environment with integrated content, resources, and tools built exclusively to support language teaching and learning. Developed with continuous user input and real-time data analysis, Portales makes teaching easier for you and language learning more engaging for your students.

Portales offers an unparalleled digital learning environment with integrated content, resources, and tools built exclusively to support language teaching and learning.

Developed with continuous user input and real-time data analysis, Portales makes teaching easier for you and language learning more engaging for your students.

Create your course in 10 minutes with Learning Tracks

Learning Tracks are pre-built templates that provide flexible options to suit your fully online, hybrid, or face-to-face introductory Spanish courses.

Once you’ve selected one of the expertly curated Learning Tracks as a base for your course, Portales will automatically set all of the assignments for the entire semester, as well as create your grade book. You can then add or delete activities, change due dates, customize assessments—or even add your own personal touches.

Gradebook Analytics provide insight on student performance

The Portales Gradebook includes advanced analytics that give an overview of how well your section or individual students are performing—both overall and in the last two weeks. This insight is critical to knowing when to step in and where to provide guidance, so that performance improves and students remain successful in the course.

Assessment Builder

With new features and improved functionality, the Assessment Builder makes it possible for you to achieve your unique course objectives. Using Assessment Builder, you can easily:

Search and import from thousands of questions in the new Question Bank
Combine existing assessment content to create a new assessment
Create new questions using a variety of question types
Randomize exams to deliver a totally unique version to each student

"The new Assessment Builder is a game changer. Hats off to everyone who made it happen. We had been pulling our hair out because we had been doing assessment manually; there wasn’t another way. This new feature is everything."

Maria Lazarus, Instructor, Monmouth University

Expand lesson content with instructor resources

Get access to a wealth of material to help facilitate communicative practice in class, or find the resources you need to share with students.

Activity Pack includes Info Gap activities, Practice activities, Role-plays, Surveys, and more
Testing Program with Answer Keys, Optional Testing, and Audio
Audioscripts and Videoscripts
Grammar presentation slides
Digital image banks

Enterprise makes course administration a breeze

Do you have dozens of instructors or adjuncts? Tens or hundreds of courses every semester? Hundreds or thousands of student enrollments? With Enterprise, you can design course templates and sections and deliver them to all of your instructors across the department with ease. From your dashboard, you can manage enrollments and check on student progress within each of the courses.

LMS integration

Now our market-leading platform is easier to integrate with your learning management system (LMS) than ever before! To further enhance the integration between Portales and your LMS, we offer the following new and improved functionality based on the LTI Advantage integration standard:

Single Sign-on to access Portales from within your LMS
Deep Linking to simplify course building in the LMS
Grade Passback between the course gradebook and LMS

Vista Higher Learning offers an integration with Blackboard, Canvas, D2L, and Moodle.