The increasing importance of digital technologies can disenfranchise individuals who lack digital literacy skills. As clinics adopt online health portals, even health care services require digital skills. Patients are often expected to check test results and perform other health-related tasks online, but few clinics provide support for those who lack the digital skills needed to navigate a health portal. For that reason, the Literacy, Language, and Technology Research group completed a project to teach patients how to use a health portal. They designed instructional materials in an online learning platform called Learner Web. The flexible nature of the online materials accommodated the needs of patients with a wide variety of interests, learning styles, and technological abilities. Importantly, the principles used to design these instructional materials are not only relevant for health portal instruction, but also for the ESL classroom. Thus, this article describes several strategies that ESL instructors can use to teach English through an online platform.