Accessibility Enhancements (continued from June): We’re expanding platform-wide accessibility updates to create a more inclusive, user-friendly experience for all learners and educators.

Video & Audio Transcriptions: Coming soon to the teacher gradebook and student portal—transcriptions that make reviewing and understanding media-based responses faster and more accessible.

Language Localization: We’re working on supporting multiple languages across the platform to better serve our global community and enhance usability for non-English speakers.

AI Auto-Scoring (Beta): We’re piloting AI-powered scoring for student responses—starting with Spanish—to help teachers save time and provide consistent, standards-aligned feedback. Click here if you’re interested in joining the beta.

Accessibility Improvements:

Improved video orientation while recording vs. reviewing videos for synchronous group and individual video submissions.

Assessments in the student portal are now consistently sorted by due date for easier access and organization.

Support for m4a files for question prompts.

Export Reports by Rubric Criteria for teachers and admins to gain deeper insight into student performance based on the rubric criteria.

Due date handling for Google Classroom users when creating or editing assessments from Extempore to improve how assessments display within Google Classroom.

Include Closed captions for YouTube video prompts

Update Student Portal Image Sizing and Styling - Images in the Student Portal have been updated to 100% width for improved presentation and consistency

Introduced our new AI auto-scoring proof of concept to a small group of beta users to collect feedback on this new initiative.

Added the ability to exclude or assign individual students per assessment.

Added the ability for teachers to reset synchronous room recordings directly from the group list at the bottom of the assessment page.

Mobile app update with minor bug fixes.

Added language selector per class to further personalize the experience in the future.

Added the ability for district admins to lock down common assessments to prevent teachers from editing. And to improve district reporting.

Updated district report for admins with improved filtering by common assessments.

Added support for Moodle LMS for roster, assignment, and grade syncing.

Released Ask Tempo, Extempore's AI content generator for teachers that can generate language level and standard-aligned content that can be used within Extempore question prompts.

Added drop-in functionality for teachers to be able to drop in on synchronous group recordings while students are active within their group.

Increased the maximum recording length for synchronous groups, allowing teachers to customize the maximum length up to 60 minutes per group.

Added the ability to edit assessment names when importing.

Add it "manage users" for district admins to move teachers between campuses, create new campuses, and view overall usage across teachers within the district.

Increased the maximum group size for synchronous group assessments up to seven students per group total.

Added screen recording response type where students record their screen while recording audio.

Supporting two or three attempts where the only options previously were single attempt or unlimited.

Added the ability to copy questions to assessments.

Added the ability to archive assessments to more easily keep teacher assessment lists clean.

Added the ability to duplicate questions while creating an assessment to streamline the workflow for teachers.

Added the ability to retain groupings for synchronous room assessments when copying the assessment to the same class.

Added the ability to move assessments between classes.

More clearly displaying question limitations without needing to edit the question to view.

Added sequential mode. Assessment type. Which automatically opens the next question when students submit rather than bringing them back to the question list to select the next question.

District Reports - visualize progress and track growth directly from Extempore.

Assessment Feature Lockdown - allows admins to lockdown editing of an assessment, ensuring that all teachers are assessing using the same questions and rubrics.

Assessment MasterID - connects shared assessments for Reporting purposes.

Copy Assessments to multiple classes - option to copy an assessment to multiple classes at the same time. Previously teacher had to copy the assessment per class.

Rubric Popup for Students - allows students to view the rubric they will be assessed on before opening the question.

Storing Cumulative Time - a way to track how long students spent on Extempore vs. how much time was spent responding to questions.

Global Rubrics - allows educators to import rubrics that were created by the Extempore team.

Support scores of "0" for new rubrics - enhance flexibility of grading system by allowing scores of "0"

New Rubrics - Our largest release yet to support proficiency based rubrics, ability to create/share district rubrics, attach rubrics to questions, and more.

Synchronous Group Improvements - connecting with group members has been streamlined to increase reliability to ensure students are able to connect with their group.

Reset "view as student" submissions directly from the student interface so teachers can quickly test and reset questions without needing to go back and forth in the gradebook.

Expand Video Submissions in Gradebook - teachers can now expand videos from the Gradebook.

Section Support for LMS Integrations - supporting sections from Canvas and Schoology so that each section has it's own class in Extempore.

Support up to 8 Rubric Criteria - increasing the maximum criteria from 5 to 8 for more rubric flexibility.

AP Simulated Conversation Mode - a new question type that formats questions specifically for simulated conversations.

YouTube Question Prompts - this feature allows teacher to copy/paste a YouTube URL as a question prompt.

Half Point Rubrics - teachers can now score with half points from the Gradebook.

Playback Speed Student Accommodations - teachers can choose which students should be able to control the playback speed for question prompts to allow slower than normal playback.

Response Type & Limitations moving from Assessment page to Question page for more flexible assessments.

Save as Draft - not ready to schedule an assessment? No problem. Save as draft and assign to students later.

Customize Prompt Replays - teachers will have the ability to choose if students can replay media prompts or not.

Skip students who haven't responded when clicking 'Save & Next' from Gradebook to seamlessly flow through questions with submissions.

Added response type icons when teachers are viewing the question list to see at a glance instead of needing to edit the assessment to see the response type.

Removed 3, 2, 1 countdown for teacher feedback.

Retain Gradebook filters so teachers don't need to adjust filters each time they load a new class.

Ability to slow down recordings to .75 if students are speaking too quickly.

Dynamically search Gradebook and see the table adapt with each character typed to locate information quicker.

Download attempts from Gradebook

Display Rubric Tooltip by clicking the criteria name to decrease the need to scroll.

Quickly navigate to Edit Assessment page from Gradebook by clicking the menu in the column header > edit assessment.

Go to Gradebook from assessment list to quickly view submissions from a given assessment.

Automatic LMS Assignment and Grade Sync for Canvas, Schoology, Microsoft Teams, Brightspace by D2L, Blackboard, and Moodle. Grades and assignments provided on Extempore display immediately in the LMS gradebook.

Waveform in Gradebook for audio submissions for easier navigation on the audio file.

LMS/SIS Rostering and SSO for Canvas, Schoology, Microsoft Teams, Brightspace, Blackboard, Moodle, Classlink, RapidIdentity, HelloID, and ClassGather. Making onboarding a breeze by provisioning teacher/student accounts and classes.

Organization Commons - a space to share and import assessments within your organization.

Customize Response Type by Question - include all response types in a single assessment instead of needing to create a separate assignment per response.

Real-time responses for Asynchronous Rooms - group responses now display immediately for students without needing to refresh the page to show new responses (similar to receiving a text message when the conversation is already opened)

Assessment Statuses & Filters

Minimum Recording Length - prevent students from submitting until they've recorded for a certain amount of time.

Show/Hide Question Prompt - the ability to determine if the question prompt should be visible or hidden after Time to Review ends.

Timer Improvements - consistent timer functionality across all question types, including Multiple Choice. Includes the ability for students to replay the question media multiple times before the time to review ends.

Account Preference for Language Keyboard - by default, the language keyboard will now be disabled for all accounts and can be enabled from Account Preferences. (Primary use is for less commonly taught languages not supported by device keyboards)

Edit Assessment Dates when Copying/Importing - Edit the start/due date as you copy/import it to your class(es).

Simultaneously Assign Assessments to Multiple Classes - Save time by copying/importing assessments to multiple classes at once.

Extended Time (Accommodations) - This will allow teachers to choose which students should receive extended time from the class list by setting 1.5x, 2x, or a custom multiplier to extend the Extempore timed limitations for select students.

New Gradebook (beta) - The New Extempore Gradebook combines functionality from Grading and Gradebook into a single page. Allowing teachers to easily track progress, review submissions, view/edit scores or feedback, export specific views, and more without leaving the page!
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Timed Limitation for Multiple Choice - Timers and single attempt can now be included for multiple choice questions to make them timed and lockable.

Customize Sync Room Recordings - Now teachers can choose 10, 15, or 20 minute maximum recordings for sync rooms. Previously 10 minutes was the only option.
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Sync Group Participant Limit Increase - The maximum group size was increased from 4 to 6 students with this update.

Real-Time Sync Room Online Status - Students will now see group members online status update immediately. Previously, students needed to wait up to 30-seconds for status to update.

Sync Groups for Mobile - Making sync groups available for iPad schools and students using Extempore from a mobile device.
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Admin Access to Teacher Accounts - A common request that previously required admins to create a "teaching assistant" account per teacher account they wanted to access. Now, admins can View Teacher Accounts directly from the "My Organization Report"

Accent Mark Keyboard - For written responses, students can now select a language to access the language specific keyboard for accent marks or character set.

Raw Points or Percentages - Teachers can now toggle between raw points (default) and percentage scores which is how scores will display for students.
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Extempore Commons - Our comprehensive database of assessments that instructors can import directly into their accounts. The goal behind Commons is for instructors to find any type of assessment (formative/summative), for any mode of communication, for any level, for any language, for any content.

Google Classroom Integration - Allows teachers to sync their Google Classroom classes, roster, and assignments with Extempore.

Google SSO - Google single sign-on for teachers.

Randomizing Question Order - Allows teachers to be able to randomize or put questions in order for each assessment.

Synchronous Groups - In our newest feature, students can chat face-to-face and connect on Extempore just like they would on Zoom or Google Meet. Once finished, these conversations are recorded and sent back to the instructor for feedback and individualized grading.
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Student Navigation Warnings - Tracks instances where students navigated away from Extempore during a single attempt question.

By default, late work is accepted on Extempore. Late submissions will be labeled in red as late in the Grading tab. Read more about preventing students from submitting late work.

The grading tab now loads faster than ever.

New look/feel for students and bug fixes

Recordings for timed responses will now begin automatically!

Video recordings no longer take up the entire screen so students can record while they view the prompt.

Extempore prevents students from being able to paste text for written responses.

Include text, video, or audio files as answer choices. Assess either interpretive mode with multiple-choice questions.

Save and reuse rubrics for future assessments.