Extempore Support

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

Trouble Joining Synchronous Room?

Keep talking, we’ll handle the rest: if your connection dips, we protect audio and automatically tune video so your class can keep rolling. Try starting your next session and let…

Synchronous Groups Bandwidth Profiles

These updates make live group assessments load faster, join more reliably, and remain stable on real‑world school networks. You’ll notice quicker entry from the waiting room, clearer audio when networks…

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

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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

Teachers can now choose when students can review their assessment submissions on a per-assessment basis, without turning off Safe Mode. Set Submission Review to “Once submitted (Immediate)” or “Once graded”…

Control Submission Review per Assessment (Safe Mode stays on)

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

Submit Ideas

Blog

Avant Sample Assessments

Find answers and get help from Intercom Support and Community Experts

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