Getting started

If your school has a Single Sign-on connection or GAR connection to Lingua Attack, or the user accounts for your school have already been created, the usernames and log-ins for both teachers and students are handled directly by this protocol. Once your admin sends you your connection ID, you can enter Lingua Attack as a teacher. If you have access to more than one teaching language, you will be asked to select the language you are teaching (which you can change later on). You will also be asked for your name and surname. These details are solely for display to other teachers and students in your institutions; they are never forwarded to, or reused by third parties. You can also choose to not enter your name and use "Mr." or "Mrs" instead. Subsequently, popup tutorials will guide you through the home page. You should contact your administration if you have any questions about usernames or passwords.

If instead your school has been given access codes for teachers and students, those users now have to create their individual user accounts on the platform.

* As a teacher

When you click on Login on the Lingua Attack page at lingua-attack.com, click on "Have an activation code but haven’t created your account yet?", then enter your activation code. You will be asked to choose a username and a password, and your first name and surname. This is purely for identifying yourself to your students on the platform, and this information is not used in any other way.

* For your students

If your school administration has provided you activation codes for your students, you must now distribute them so that each student can create his or her user account on the platform. When each student goes to the Lingua Attack page at lingua-attack.com, they should then click on Have an activation code but haven’t created your account yet? and enter their activation code. They will be asked to enter their real first name and surname, for the purpose of you and other teachers being to identify them on the platform, so it is very important that the students complete these fields seriously. As soon as the student activates his or her access code in creating a user account, that student will appear in your Students list for the school (accessible via the Student Management shortcut on your Teacher Panel or the Students tab of the My School menu), and visible to all other teachers of your school using the platform.

If your organization has assigned you to one or more Administrative Groups (see section on Types of Groups), you will see the learners in those groups by viewing the group in My Groups.

For Custom Groups:

You can find the learners in Administrative Groups assigned to you by viewing those groups in the Administrative Groups area of the My Groups section. You can find the learners in Custom Groups you are already teaching by viewing those groups in the Custom Groups area of the same section. When your school’s learners are all present and visible on the Learners page, select the learners you wish to place into the groups you will be teaching by clicking on the circle (so that a blue plus sign appears) or in the check box next to each learners's name. You can access the learner list directly from the home page or via the My Organization menu.

From the Home page, select "Learner Management" from the Trainer Panel.

From the My Organization menu, select Learners.

There are two types of groups on the platform:

Administrative Groups are groups defined by your organization’s administration (if any) and set up on the platform via Single Sign-on protocol or the user account creation implemented from the .csv it has provided. Trainers and learners are assigned to these groups by your organization. Trainers not already assigned to an Administrative Group can join it if they need to, and then can give the group assignments and schedule assessment tests, but they cannot modify its name, or add or remove learners or other trainers from the class. Trainers cannot create or delete Administrative Groups.

Custom Groups are groups created by a trainer, who names the group and places learners in it. The group can be joined by other trainers. Trainers can create or delete such groups as needed. If your organization has not defined any Administrative Groups, trainers will only see the Custom Groups they have created or joined.

To create a new Custom Group, select “Create A New Custom Group” at the top of the My Groups section. Choose a name for the group, and then select the learners to add to the group. You can filter the learner list by Trainer (learners already in a group with a specific trainer) or Group (learners already in a specific group). You can also use the search function to search for specific learners by name or - if they have used one - licence code.

The Assessment Tests on the platform are designed according to CEFR guidelines. To know the proficiency level of the learners in your groups, you can assign an Assessment Test to each group. Knowing the level of your learners will enable you recommend or assign exercises adapted to their needs. All the exercises on the platform are accessible to everyone, but when creating assignments you can filter exercises by difficulty level or grammar point. Based on the level of each learner, you can choose to place them into groups by level and move them to higher-level groups as they progress.

You can also access usage statistics, or - if a learning unit was included as part of an assignment - see learners’ scores on that unit as well as their progress in completing the assignment (Not started, In progress, Finished).

The Learning Language is the target language: the language you will be learning. It can be changed - if you have access to more than one learning language - by clicking on the Change Language button.

The interface language is the language in which the site is navigated - all instructions are given in this language. You can change the interface language to any one of the 26 languages available, unless your school has imposed the Learning language as the interface language.

The translation language enables you translate words (besides keywords) inside a learning unit, as with a dictionary. You can change the translation language to any one of the 26 languages available.

Your personal information can be found by clicking on the Account and Profile menus items.

Navigate to these sections to change your username, first and last name, and other personal information. 

To learn more about your personal information, click here