Extempore

Follow these steps to set up your students and yourself for success

Getting started with Extempore: Best Practices

Abbai Habte

Sam Slagle

Create and Manage Assessments

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Account Settings

Extempore allows you to record an original audio for your students.

Recording your own audio prompts

Learn how to type letters with accents on Mac, Microsoft & Mobile Device

Type Letters with Accents on Extempore

Include all response types in a single assessment instead of needing to create a separate assignment per response.

Multiple Response Types Per Assessment

Extempore allows you to record an original video for your students.

Recording your own video prompts

Create multiple attempt questions for more practice.

Multiple Attempt Questions

Learn to override the time limitation on individual questions.

Overriding question limitations

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

Single Attempt Questions

Learn how to add a media prompt into your question and which files are supported

Uploading images, videos, or audio files as a question

While setting up an assessment, you can select individual questions to be multiple choice.

Including Multiple Choice Questions

Add Questions 

Record live interpersonal conversations in groups of 2 to 6.

Create a Synchronous Group Assignment

Want to create a collaborative type of assessment, such as a simulated conversation?

Create an Asynchronous Group Assessment

Using Extempore for ASL

Determine when your students can access your assignment.

Assessment Start/Due Date (availability)

With Extempore, teachers can control the students' "Time to Respond".

Control students' 'Time to Respond'

With Extempore, teachers can control the students' "Time to Review".

Limiting students' 'Time to Review'

While setting up your activity within Extempore, you can select to have your students submit an audio or video response.

Speaking Assessments

While setting up your activity within Extempore, you can select to have your students submit a written response.

Written Assessments

How to create and save a rubric on Extempore.

Creating and Saving a Rubric

How to access a rubric that you have created and saved.

Accessing a Saved Rubric

Learn how you can create an Extempore assessment.

Create an Extempore Assessment

Randomize the question order for each student.

Randomizing assessment questions per student

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

Controlling when grades are published

Assessment Setup

Learn how to use Extempore to help prepare your students (and yourself) for) AP World Language Exams.

AP Practice on Extempore

Create formative (low-stakes) assessments

Formative assessments on Extempore

Create Summative (high stakes) assessments on Extempore.

Summative Assessments on Extempore

Create Interpretive assessments on Extempore.

Interpretive assessments

Interpersonal group assessment on Extempore

Best practices when facilitating a synchronous group assignment on Extempore.

Best Practices for Synchronous Group Assignments

Create presentational assessments on Extempore.

Presentational assessments on Extempore

Types of Assessments 

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

Assessment Statuses

Deleting an assessment is very simple on Extempore.

Delete an assessment

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

View as a Student