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Helpful information for instructors using Extempore

Instructors

Follow the links below to log into your account

Instructor Sign In

This article explains the different account preferences on Extempore.

Instructor Account Preferences

This article will show you how to update your profile on a teacher account.

Update your email or password

How to invite teaching assistants or other instructors to help oversee your classes.

Add a Teaching Assistant

Resetting a student's password can be done in three simple steps.

Reset a student's password

See how to enroll students depending on your type of integration or non-integrated Extempore accounts

Enrolling and creating student accounts

If you created your Extempore account without Google follow these steps to connect it now.

Connect Extempore Account to Google for Single Sign-On (Teachers)

Display previously enrolled students in Gradebook

Managing Unenrolled Students

Helpful resources for instructors to manage their own accounts or student accounts

Account Management

Learn why students are unable to join a synchronous room and how to troubleshoot.

Trouble Joining Synchronous Room?

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Synchronous Groups Bandwidth Profiles

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Synchronous Groups: Recent Improvements

Learn how to quickly randomize student assignments in sync room assessments using the Shuffle Button. Create fresh partner pairings with one click while maintaining absent student status.

Shuffle Student Groups in Sync Room Assessments

Assessments

Add an extra level of security with your assessments by activating safe mode.

Enable Safe Mode

Student Navigation Warnings

Options for typing accents and diacritics in Extempore

Accents and other diacritics

Assessment Preferences

Learn how you can create an individual assessment

Create an Individual Assessment

How to create a Synchronous Group assessment

Creating a Synchronous Group assessment (part 1)

Create an Asynchronous Group Assessment

In Extempore, you control when your students see your grades.

Control when grades are published

Randomize the question order for each student.

Randomize assessment questions

Sequential Mode

Whether you’re managing absences, tailoring assessments, or offering retakes—this feature gives you the flexibility you’ve been asking for.

Exclude students from an individual assessment

Follow these steps for best results when facilitating a Sync Group assessment

Best Practices for Synchronous Group Assessments

Extempore's flexibility allows teachers to create aligned practice for AP World Language Exams.

AP Practice on Extempore

Using Extempore for ASL

Assessment Setup

Multiple Choice Questions

You can create a question on Extempore where students can respond via a screen recording.

Screen Recordings on Extempore

Learn how to add a media prompt to your questions and see which files are supported.

Upload images, videos, or audio files

Question prompts can be audio, images, video, or input text. Word or PDF documents cannot be uploaded as prompts.

Use a Word document or PDF in a question

Extempore allows you to record an original audio or video to attach to a question

Recording audio or video to attach to a question

Enhance your questions even more with authentic language from YouTube.

Add YouTube videos to questions

Learn how to use the time to review, time to respond, and minimum response time configurations within Extempore.

Timers and Limitations

Learn to prevent students from attempting a question more than once.

Single and Multiple Attempt Questions

Copying and duplicating questions will both produce the same version of a question, but their meanings differ on Extempore.

Copy or Duplicate a Question

Adding Questions 

Clean up your class page and remove old assessments that you no longer use.

Archive an assessment

Check the status of an assessment right from the teacher portal, without editing it.

Assessment Statuses

Copy an assessment to one or multiple classes within your account.

Copy an assessment

Delete an assessment

Edit assessment details

Send and receive assignments with other Extempore users.

Import an assessment from a colleague

Our library provides an ample amount of both formative and summative assessments, AP practice, and much more.

Import an assessment from the Extempore Content Library

Migrate assessments between accounts

Move an assessment

Share a class or an assessment with a colleague

Teachers can 'View as Student' from their account or see exactly what students are seeing.

View as a Student

Before the assessment: Take attendance & adjust rooms

Before the Synchronous Group assessment (part 2)

During the assessment: Drop in & reset a room

During the Synchronous Group assessment (part 3)

Get students caught up if they missed a Synchronous Group assessment

Make up a missed Synchronous Group assessment

Teachers can go in and out of Sync rooms via Drop In.

Drop In during Sync Group Assessments

Managing Assessments

Classes

Learn what you can accomplish by creating a class on Extempore.

Create a class

To add students to your Extempore class simply use the invite link.

Invite students to a class

If the Extempore is not connected to your district's LMS, Teachers can enroll a group of students into a class through a roster.

Enroll students via roster upload

Class Setup

Learn about everything you can do from the main class page.

Understanding the Class page

Learn how to archive one of your Extempore classes with this article.

Archive and restore a class

This article provides a step-by-step guide to help you copy a class

Copy a class

Delete a class

How to remove an enrolled student from an Extempore class roster.

Delete a student from your class

Teachers can enroll students in new classes while removing the old class.

Move students between existing classes

Provide accommodations to select students within your class.

Student accommodations

Class Management

Learn more about the features of the gradebook

Understanding the Gradebook

Learn how to grade and give feedback to your students

Grading and Feedback

All student recordings are downloadable from the Gradebook

Download Audio or Video Submissions

Learn how to export or view your Extempore gradebook in the following article.

Export your Extempore Gradebook

Here's how you can reset student responses regardless of their status.

Unlock or Reset a Student Attempt

Give your students precise feedback to oral responses using this handy feature.

Provide In-line feedback to students

Learn all about our rubrics, including how to create them, share them, use them to score, and more.

Rubrics on Extempore

Gain additional insight to student performance based on rubric criteria.

Reports by Rubric Criteria

Export Written Responses from Students

Learn how to view student submissions and recordings in the Gradebook, restore archived classes to access past work, and understand how Extempore displays unenrolled students while preserving their submission history.

How to Access Student Work in Archived and Active Classes

Grading and Rubrics

Keep all of your assessments and grades synced between Extempore and Google Classroom.

Sync classes from Google Classroom

Attaching Extempore Assignments to Canvas Modules: A Step-by-Step Guide

Troubleshooting steps to disconnect and reconnect your Google account to Extempore.

Unlinking Google from Extempore

Grades are not Syncing to LMS

helpful information regarding how instructors interact with Extempore when utilizing one of our many integrations. 

LMS Integration

A guide for LTI 1.3 Instructors to connect/link LMS classes to Extempore

LTI 1.3 - Connecting LMS classes to Extempore

LTI 1.3 - Connecting Extempore Assessments to your LMS

LTI 1.3 - Grade Sync

This guide outlines the steps for instructors using the Extempore integration with Blackboard Ultra LTI 1.3

LTI 1.3 - Blackboard Instructor Guide

LTI 1.3 Teacher Guides

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