Extempore

FAQ and Troubleshooting for Instructors

Sam Slagle

Abbai Habte

Grant Castner

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

How Student Accounts are Created

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

Account Management

Create what you need in minutes with Extempore's task assistant.

Using Extempore's Task Assistant Ask Tempo

Learn why you're unable to join a synchronous room and how to troubleshoot.

Trouble Joining Synchronous Room?

Assessments

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

Enable Safe Mode

Student Navigation Warnings

Learn how to type letters with accents on your device

Accents and other diacritics

Assessment Preferences

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 to a question

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 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

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

Timers and Limitations

Add Questions 

Learn how you can create an individual assessment

Create an Individual Assessment

Unlock live interpersonal speaking between students

Create a Synchronous Group Assessment

Create an Asynchronous Group Assessment

Using Extempore for ASL

Randomize the question order for each student.

Randomize assessment questions

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

Control when grades are published

Sequential Mode

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

Excluding students from an individual assessment

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

AP Practice on Extempore

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

Best Practices for Synchronous Group Assessments

Jessica Sloan

Assessment Setup

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

Assessment Statuses

Edit assessment details

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

View as a Student

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

Archive an assessment

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

Copy an assessment

Delete an assessment

Move an assessment

Share a class or an assessment with a colleague

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

Drop In during Sync Group Assessments

Migrating assessments from an old account to a new Extempore account

Managing Existing Assessments

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

LMS Integration

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

Teachers can enroll a group of students into a class through a roster.

Enroll students via roster upload

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

Sync classes from Google Classroom

Class Setup

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

Understanding the Class page

Provide accommodations to select students within your class.

Student Accommodations

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

Copy a class

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

Delete a class

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

Move students between existing classes

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

Delete a student from your class

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

Archive and restore classes

Class Management

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

Rubrics on Extempore

Grading and Rubrics

See what's included and what we're working on for our new Gradebook

New Gradebook (compared to legacy)

Navigating the Extempore Gradebook

Learn how to grade and give feedback using the Snap Grader.

Using the Snap Grader for Scoring and Feedback

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

View and Export Gradebook via Extempore

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

How to Delete, Unlock, or Reset a Student Attempt

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

In-line feedback within the Extempore gradebook

Using the New Gradebook 

All student recordings are downloadable from the grading tab.

Can I download my student's recordings?

Legacy Grading

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

Instructor Integration Guides

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 is related to Blackboard Ultra and Blackboard Original LTI 1.3 integrations.