OFFICE OF EXTERNAL RELATIONS

UIS e-Languages Program

ABOUT THE

Unit

The UIS e-Languages Program was created in 2018 through a coordinated initiative led by the Office of External Relations, the School of Languages, the Institute of Languages, CEDEDUIS, and the Academic Council, with the acquisition of the ALTISSIA virtual learning platform. This platform currently offers 24 learning languages and benefits more than 19,000 members of the active UIS community.

Contact Us

CREDENTIAL

REQUEST

You may request your credentials to access the platform as an undergraduate or graduate student, professor, graduate, or administrative staff member by completing the registration form. To do so, you must have an active institutional email account. If you do not know your institutional email address or experience any issues accessing it, please contact: admincorreo@correo.uis.edu.co

Within 2 to 8 business days after submitting the form, you will receive an email from Altissia with instructions to activate your account. Once activated, you will be able to immediately access all the benefits offered by the platform.

PROGRAM

Services

OBJECTIVE OF THE

Socialization Sessions

To present the process for obtaining credentials for the Altissia platform and the benefits offered by the UIS e-Languages Program to the active UIS community.

Request a socialization session of the UIS e-Languages Program for your academic unit, administrative unit, school, faculty, or research group:

OBJECTIVE OF THE

Process

To assess the language proficiency level of members of the UIS university community.

Request this service for your academic unit, administrative unit, school, faculty, or research group:

OBJECTIVE OF THE

Contest

Objective: To encourage the frequent use of the platform among the UIS community through contests that reward discipline in the study of one or more languages.

Stay informed about upcoming contests by checking your institutional email and our social media channels.

OBJECTIVE OF THE ALTISSIA

Digital Exchange

Objective: To promote intercultural exchange by providing virtual spaces where UIS students meet with students from Brazil to discuss topics of general interest and interact in English.

OPEN

Calls

For those who do not yet have an account on the Altissia platform, you may request one through the following link:

Interested participants must select one of the 24 languages available on the platform and complete the registration form at the following link:

During the contest, participants will have the opportunity to accumulate points through various activities. For each activity completed on the platform, 10 points will be awarded. In addition, every Tuesday a weekly challenge will be published, allowing participants to earn additional points. Progress through the levels of the selected language will also contribute extra points at the end of the contest.

UIS invites all members of its community to start accumulating points by using the platform in any of its available versions.

HISTORY

E-Languages

The UIS e-Languages Program began in 2018 as a joint initiative among several UIS units to acquire a virtual language-learning platform. The platform selected was Altissia, which initially offered 7 languages.

Since 2019, socialization campaigns, database updates, and preparations for the platform migration have been carried out. In 2020, the program developed its own identity with a logo, expanded to 22 languages, launched a mobile app, introduced the Follow Up tracking tool, and conducted characterization processes in different units.

That same year, the first UIS–Altissia Digital Exchange was held to promote internationalization and language practice. In 2021, teachers were trained as coaches to use the Follow Up tool, two new languages were added (American English and Canadian French), reaching a total of 24 languages, and outreach campaigns were strengthened through contests, events, and a new landing page.

New digital exchanges in English and Portuguese are planned to continue encouraging language learning and intercultural exchange.