Administer a Synchronous Group Assessment
Follow the steps below after your assessment is created and you are ready for students to participate.
Take Attendance
Click the View Rooms button for the desired assessment.
Students appear with a green dot when they are signed in to Extempore. Students who are offline appear with a gray dot.
Toggle off absent students, then click Continue to Room Assignment.
You can activate absent students later by marking them present. This is helpful when a student returns to class and needs to take the assessment.
Assign rooms
Extempore assigns students to a room when you create a group assessment; however, you can adjust those assignments if needed.
To move a student, drag and drop their name into the desired room or click Shuffle to randomize all assignments.
If you need to add more rooms, click Add Room.
Click Continue to Monitor.
Be sure to check room assignments before the assessment begins. All students must have a partner assigned to them to participate.
Please note that moving a student overrides the maximum number of students you set when you created the assessment. Click Save to confirm your changes.
During the Assessment
Monitor Students
In the Monitor tab, you’ll see each student with real-time status updates, whether they are online, in the waiting room, recording, etc.
When a room has ended, you will see the students’ status change to Participated while the room updates to Processing, which means the video will be available in your gradebook soon. When the students’ status updates to Recorded, the video is available for you to review.
Join a Room
Teachers may drop in on students as they participate in the task by clicking Join then decide if you want to remain invisible or visible to students.
Some teachers prefer to drop in on multiple rooms during the assessment, while others prefer to remain on this screen in case a student raises their hand to request help.
Reset Student Submissions
Teachers can reset a room (a student enters the room too early, a student is paired with an absent student, etc.) to provide the student another opportunity. You can reset a room directly from the Monitor screen by clicking Reset, or reset the submission from the Gradebook.