ACTIVITIES REPORT
Partners' Institution:
CESPIM Srl
Project's period (from/to):
November 2007 - September 2009
WP concerned:
WP 4 - Check of the language contents of the ELS portal

Objectives of activities carried out:
The objective of the activities we carried out is the check of the italian version of the ELS portal, in 2 different ways: the check of the contents of the single Units of the italian online training course, and also the check of the technical needs, where necessary. Check and debugging of the italian course.
The goal is to implement and to improve the ELS portal.



Description of activities carried out:
In the first phase of the project and of the WP4, we started with the check of the contents of the ELS portal, focusing our attention on the first 4 Units of the basic level.
It has been a very interesting check, in order to provide and make some necessary language and technical arrangements. We are in charge of checking the italian language part of all of the business course, and I have to say that this part is pretty good, clear and usefull.

In this second phase of the WP4, we carried on with the check of the contents of the ELS portal, finishing the check of the last 6 Units of the basic level, and with the check of the all Units of the More and expert level.
More and less we found the same small problems all around the Units we have into the portal. The only strange thing is that sometimes, clicking on the single words to find out the grammar rule or the meaning of that word, using different computers, it has been happened that the correct explaination comes up in some computers and in others not (like there is a technical problem).
We filled in a form for every Unit, highlighting the changes we did, and suggesting all the technical needs to Connectis, the project technical partner. We use the Mantis platform in order to verify if the technical corrections are right, which is not always the case, so that feedback needs to be given and issues need to be revised again. We correct the content issues assigned by Connectis, the project technical partners.
We select the italian native online tutor.


Outcomes:
It is potentially a very good tool to improve and to learn the language you need to use in case of need, but also a nice way to learn of to manage discussions or problems with your boss or different kind of people.
It is not very easy to stay in front of the computer following all the lessons, but at this stage it seemed to be not much difficult.



Evaluation of the work undertaken:
The work to do for debugging and to check again after debugging take a lot of time. In fact sometimes bugs look to be solved but some still ramain, so you had to debugging once more.I think that the portal is a very good product, and it needs just few changes, at least in the italian version. The result of this evaluation was quite good, because the structure of the portal is fluid, and it is interesting.
Of course the expert level is a bit more difficult than the basic one, as expected, and I think it meets the needs of the secretaries and administrative staff world.