How to prepare a student for the DELE with online classes
How to prepare a student for the DELE with online classes, practicing the oral exam live and tracking how their spoken Spanish improves class after class.
To prepare a student for the DELE with online classes, you organize the course around the exam papers, practice the oral exam live with frequent mock tests and track, with a concrete record, how the student's spoken Spanish improves until exam day.
The challenge isn't the content. It's keeping DELE preparation consistent when everything happens remotely.
Why online DELE preparation usually stalls
The DELE assesses reading comprehension, listening comprehension, written expression and oral expression. The first three can be practiced with materials and exercises.
The oral exam is a different story. It depends on real conversation, quick reactions and vocabulary that comes up on the spot.
In an online class, the teacher runs the mock test, corrects a few points from memory and moves on. A week later, neither you nor the student remembers exactly what went wrong.
The result: the student walks into the exam without knowing whether they improved. And the teacher has no way to show that the Spanish exam preparation is working.
How most teachers prepare students for the DELE today
The most common approach is stitching loose tools together:
- Google Meet or Zoom for the live Spanish class
- PDF of sample exams shared on screen
- Google Docs with notes on the student's mistakes
- WhatsApp to send correction audios and homework
- A spreadsheet to track what has already been practiced
It works at first. The problem shows up when you have several students at different DELE levels, from A2 to C1.
Notes end up scattered, the student never reviews what was said in the mock test, and you prepare the same material from scratch for each one.
What good DELE preparation needs
If you think about the ideal, an online DELE preparation routine needs four things:
- Reusable material by level. You build the B2 oral exam lessons once and use them with every student taking that level.
- Live mock tests with visual support. The oral task card, the picture to describe and the monologue outline need to be on screen, with the student able to write along.
- A record of what was said. Without the speech recorded, correcting the oral exam depends on the teacher's memory.
- Measured progress. The student needs to see, week by week, whether they're speaking more, with more vocabulary and fewer mistakes.
With that, exam preparation stops being guesswork. You and the student know where they stand.
How Noladi helps with DELE preparation
In Noladi, you create a course with separate lessons for each exam task and link the lesson to the class. The collaborative whiteboard opens with the material already loaded, and the student writes along with you during the mock test, straight from the browser.
You can schedule weekly recurring classes up to the exam date and take notes during the class. After the session, the lesson review shows the transcription synced with the video, grammar, pronunciation and vocabulary correction suggestions, speaking stats and the new words covered. The student can review their own oral mock test as many times as they want.
Get to know Noladi
If you prepare students for the DELE and want a more organized routine, under your own brand and with the student's progress visible after every class, get to know Noladi at noladi.app/teacher.
