Extempore allows instructors to obtain and assess authentic speech without having to schedule face to-face time with each student. Instructors can now create an activity on the Extempore website, selecting a set of parameters for each question, depending on the learning objectives. When configuring a final exam or any other form of summative assessment, for example, the teacher may limit the time the student has between reviewing the prompt and answering the question
The Extempore app also allows the instructor to decide whether students can re-record their answers. For practice assignments or for any other form of formative assessment, on the other hand, timing restrictions can be more flexible.
We created Extempore as a way to ensure that all our students spoke more in class. There is really no other tool that has all a teacher needs to do oral activities and provide feedback to their students.
Assistant Professor of Spanish Linguistics,
and Co-Founder of Extempore
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You create a prompt on Extempore’s website
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You determine time from prompt to response, if you allow re-recording, and other parameters
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Students hear or watch the prompts on their app or desktop and record their responses
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You grade and provide audio or written feedback on your computer or device
Ensure spontaneity by limiting the time students have to prepare and respond.
Push grades to your students’ devices with a simple tap.
Keep all your content on Extempore: no files to email, rename or keep track of. We do it all for you.
Export your grade book and import it into your LMS.
Customize the rubric to suit your needs and the needs of your class.
As we do every year, we use the summer break to push updates to the platform. Some of these updates are major new features; but many others are small tweaks, performance and usability improvements that are reported to us during the year. That being said, we’re excited to announce the first one of the summer![...]
Posted on 2020-06-26 by Thomas Murr
Guest Post by Susana Perez-Castillejo, PhD, Assistant Professor of Spanish, University of St. Thomas. Beyond the Zoom breakout rooms for speaking activities and shared Google docs for collaborative writing practice, there are other tools we can leverage to make our synchronous class meetings a bit more interactive. These are ideas I have been learning these past few[...]
Posted on 2020-04-16 by Thomas Murr
Nowadays technological developments have affected our lives, how we communicate, how we learn and, of course, our way of teaching. Indeed, it is almost impossible to find a language class that does not use some technological support. Computer assisted language learning has changed the practice of teaching (Chapelle & Voss, 2016). Technology in Language[...]
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