“Open CL-150 Cohorts” to Help with Language Program Disruption Posted by meaghan on Mar 17, 2020 in For Instructors, For Learners, For Program Managers, News and Events

If COVID-19 is preventing your language classes from meeting, cancelling language training events, or otherwise impacting your language studies, we’d like to help. Below you will find a list of free, open links to all 36 CL-150 Cohort lessons published this week. We will continue sending this list every Tuesday for the next several weeks—please…
Cohort Lesson of the Month – February 2020 Posted by meaghan on Mar 9, 2020 in Cohort Lesson of the Month, For Learners

Looking for recent, relevant learning materials for on-the-job sustainment? The CL-150 Cohort team has already published more than 300 new lessons so far this year, covering current events such as Coronavirus, Russia’s potential competitor to 5G, and Lebanon losing the right to vote in the United Nations. While those lessons are based on formal news…
New in Lesson Authoring: Co-authoring Posted by meaghan on Mar 3, 2020 in For Instructors, New in Lesson Authoring

It takes two to tango, and it can take two (or more) to make a great lesson. That’s why you can now add co-authors to your lessons! The lesson authoring tool in the CL-150 Platform enables instructors and curriculum developers to create online language lessons supported by more than two dozen learning activities that build…
CL-150 Platform Reporting Groups just got a lot better Posted by meaghan on Feb 20, 2020 in For Program Managers, New in Admin Reporting

You can now use CL-150 Platform Reporting Groups to monitor learning activity in real time, track proficiency scores over time, send messages, and more! What are Reporting Groups? As the name suggests, Reporting Groups help you run reports on specific groups of sustainers. But we know that language program managers need to proactively manage their…
Cohort Lesson of the Month – January 2020 Posted by meaghan on Jan 28, 2020 in Cohort Lesson of the Month, For Learners, For Program Managers

Last year, the CL-150 Cohort team published 2,409 new lessons, used by thousands of language professionals maintaining language proficiency on the job. We’re taking a look at one lesson each month to find out how Cohort lessons drive vocabulary, grammar, and regional and cultural expertise. What are CL-150 Cohorts? If you’re not familiar, CL-150 Cohorts…
Enhancing regional and cultural expertise with CL-150 Cohorts Posted by meaghan on Jan 9, 2020 in For Learners, For Program Managers

You’ve probably heard about CL-150 Cohort lesson streams as a resource for language maintenance. But did you know the weekly lessons also help learners enhance regional and cultural expertise? Foreign language proficiency, regional expertise, and cultural knowledge are enduring critical competencies for US Government language professionals, but all three require continuous effort to maintain and…
CL-150 Platform Year in Review 2019 Posted by meaghan on Dec 23, 2019 in For Instructors, For Learners, For Program Managers, News and Events

Are you and your team making the most of the CL-150 Platform? Is there anything new you missed? Let’s look back on a few of the notable updates from 2019. Platform Updates The CL-150 Platform expands and improves every year based on what you need. This year, we addressed major points for all users, including…