With content curated from leading language-learning programs, Portales brings together Vista’s expertise in language instruction and online learning. Portales puts in your hands the quality, well-tested curricula you need to create effective fully online, hybrid, or face-to-face Spanish courses that deliver a rich, engaging experience for your students.

You've spent countless hours developing your classroom curriculum. Portales lets you choose from a variety of ready-made, expertly-curated course templates, so you can find the one that best fits your instructional goals and learning outcomes. You can even add your own personal touch: it’s your classroom—powered by Portales.

Be there to answer student questions when you want, where you want. Use video or audio to connect personally with your students. Portales allows you to do all of this and more, giving you the power to respond to student requests in context, and track student learning and performance with real-time grades and feedback.

Portales makes it easy to bring your own approach and expertise to the way you teach. You can shape the Portales curriculum to fit your instructional goals and teaching preferences—even while the term is in progress. And any customizations and changes you make can be saved to use in future semesters.

Portales allows your unique teaching style to shine. With convenient, ready-made course curriculum and components, you’ll have the time to create and incorporate your own activities, videos, assignments and assessments. Create your own Partner Chats for your students to connect with each other. Add your own materials to supplement students’ learning. Adding your voice to your Portales course is easy—and your students will hear your unique accent loud and clear.

Sometimes you want to go beyond the material to connect. With Portales, you can add instructor notes when and where students need them. Customize our expert content with your own inline notes, and use sidebars to enhance your instruction. Reach your students in the most effective way—yours.

Students learn better when they have a clear sense of what’s expected of them. A well-defined learning progression allows students to progress, in logical steps that keep them connected to the curriculum. Your students start with low-stakes exploration and learning, moving on to practice, communication, self-check, and assessment. Expertly-designed content helps students navigate the course with confidence, engaging and preparing them, one step at a time.

Portales provides your students with the type of interactive, visual and entertaining content they need to stay motivated and engaged. Interactive vocabulary and grammar tutorials mix conceptual content with activities that make your students active learners, not passive participants.

Your students are language learners, and Portales chat activities keep them talking. Listening and responding to pre-recorded native speakers gives students virtual conversational practice that will lower their affective filter. As they progress, they’ll engage in live Partner Chat video conversations with their peers, readily accessible from within your course.

Students will know exactly where they are in your course: What have they completed? What’s coming up next? More than a traditional syllabus, Portales’ course tools encourage responsibility and engagement by allowing students to see exactly where they are at all times. They’ll know what’s coming next without having to ask, making your course easy for them to navigate.

Portales allows students to track exactly where they are within each activity. Knowing what they’ve completed and how much is left to do allows them to take control of their schedule, and predict their study time. If a student has to step away from an assignment, she won’t waste time re-orienting herself: Portales makes it easy to jump in where she left off, keeping her learning—and your course—moving at a steady pace.

With Portales, students work with content divided into sections that are easy to manage. Interactive self-checks keep them focused and make sure that concepts stick. As they learn at a pace that matches their real lives, your students won't get overwhelmed or left behind. Which means that they’ll finish your course well prepared for their next language-learning challenge.