Hi Laura, We use a digital workbook from Pearson in our Spanish classes and are expecting our French classes to adopt one in the fall as well. The students really like the digital version, since they have lots of extras for practice (games, etc.) and they can't lose their homework! If you have multiple sections of Italian courses, the digital version will help bring your faculty in line IF you work together on doing so in the very beginning. We had a rough start when we began using the Spanish program, but if you go to your instructional technology group, or failing that, to your language resource center and ask them to help you implement the workbook, it will probably go better. (IT is generally happier to support technical problems if they know about the program in advance, so they can run it through a testing process--at least that's the way it works best here.) The major "gotcha's" that we found (apart from some beta stuff) was that there were certain settings on the students' computers that had to be changed in order for the program to work correctly. For instance, in Internet Explorer, all extra toolbars had to be disabled (like Yahoo, Google, etc.). There were also some supplementary downloads (Wimba and Flash)that needed to be put on the computers and updated before everything would run correctly. I don't know the Avanti workbook requirements, but would suggest you read the technical requirements section thoroughly and make sure you ask somebody in IT if you don't understand parts of it. Enlisting the help of your language resource center or lab will be invaluable to you. Sorry for the wordiness. This was a major project for my instructional technology team, and took some doing for us to make it a success (which it eventually was, hence the French adoption this semester!) Regards, Sue Breeyear Asst. Director, Instructional Technology Saint Michaels College Colchester, VT 05439 *********************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning (http://iallt.org/), and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://www.languageconsortium.org/). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************