The Wales Essential Skills Toolkit (WEST)

If you have taken the WEST Assessment, WEST puts you in charge of your learning and gives you all the tools and support you need for Essential Skills success. Courses are added to suit individual needs, so only materials that are relevant to you will be in your course list.


After you log in, view the area called ‘My courses’. Just choose the course you want to start working through from the list.
 Wales Essential Skills Toolkit courses are web-based, so you can  get to them:

• any day, any time
• on almost any computer, anywhere in the world, so long as it is connected to the Internet. (You may need to check the minimum computer requirements.)

 So even if you look after someone in your family, work shifts, or  just have a really busy social life, you can still arrange your  learning for a time that suits you. The more time you spend  learning, the quicker you will improve your skills. 

 When you have done what you have time for, leave the course and  go back to ‘My courses’. All your answers will be stored ready for  the next time you go back to the course. Or you can start to learn  with a new course.

Here is how you access the WEST Tool: