The OLS platform, offered by the Erasmus+ program, is a tool to use when learning a language. The website is aimed at any person engaging in a mobility, that can be academic, EVS, professional, etc.
In order to use the platform, you shall receive an invitation via email, sent by your coordinator, that will forward you through a link to a language assessment test. After filling this assessment, that takes about 40 minutes, the results are sent both to you and the coordinator of the mobility. The results of the test use the CEFR scale.
After this assessment, we will be sent and receive another invitation from the coordinator, this time to participate in the language course. By using the link provided in this email, you will answer a kind of objectives questionnaire. This questionnaire is essential to define your learning path, asking you the motives to take this course and your objectives with it, asking some other questions like which other languages you speak.
Finalized the creation of the learning path, you are redirected to your dashboard, where you can find all the information about your progress, being:
- Your level, based on the results of your language assessment, including a short explanation to it and the date you completed the test
- The “My statistics” section, where you can see how much time was spent using the platform in the current month, and in total, since the beginning of your course
- And finally, “My learning path”, where you can choose which lessons to take, based on topic or type.
Your original learning path, made before the start of the course, can be changed at any point, in order to erase or add objectives.
All progress is automatically saved, therefore, you can exit the platform whenever you want, to later on restart from the point you left.