Extempore

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

Trouble Joining Synchronous Room?

Sam Slagle

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

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.

Exclude 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

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 go in and out of Sync rooms via Drop In.

Drop In during Sync Group Assessments

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