Exercises with edit boxes are exercises that have spaces where the student has to type in the answers.
Example of an exercise with edit boxes.

Settings

When you create your exercise, make sure you select the edit boxes option.

Creating an Exercise

Write your first exercise sentence in the first space of the exercises.

Put stars * around the word you want the student to fill in. Whatever you put in between stars will become an edit box. You can have one or more per sentence.

Carefully spend some time thinking of all the different answers the student could fill in that could be valid. Some answers that could be valid in our example sentence are: is, was, likes, hates, loves, despises. You want to put all these answers as valid alternatives for "is" in the sentence. You can do this by separating them with a vertical bar bars |. If the student types in any of these answers, it will count as a correct answer.

If there are way too many correct answers, it's a good idea to add a clue behind the answer. It's optional, but can be very helpful. It will eliminate a lot of answers! In our example we can add the clue (to be), meaning that the answer has to be a conjugation of the verb "to be". When you do this, you will only have the answers "is" and "was" as valid answers. You could limit it even more by writing in the description that all the answers have to be in the present or past tense. We've done this in our example exercise.

The Result

That's it! All you have to remember is to put stars * around the word or words you want the student to fill in and use vertical bars bars | to separate all the different possible correct answers. Below you see the result of our example sentence, where both the words "is" and "was" will be counted as correct answers.

Students Entering Answers

Exercises with edit boxes are the most complicated to create because it's difficult to anticipate what students might enter and which answers to count as correct. We've implemented a couple of things to make it a little bit easier.

• Uppercase and lowercase letters
  We ignore whether the correct answer and the answer the student fills in are in uppercase or lowercase letters, so you do not have to worry about this!
• Punctuation
  We ignore punctuation characters. If there are differences in punctuation only, we will mark the answer as correct. This means that you can freely use periods, question marks, exclamation poins, commas, semicolons, etc. in your answers. You should try to use correct punctuation, because when the student checks their answers, we will display your answer! So if the student has forgotten punctuation marks, the student will see the correct punctuation when the correct answer is displayed.
• Accents
  If your answer contains an accented character, we will automatically add a checkbox to the screen, giving the student the option to practice either with or without accents:  Ignore Accents. If the students has chosen to ignore accents, we will count both "frère" and "frere" as correct, when the answer is "frère". If they have chosen not to ignore accents, we will only count "frère" as a correct answer. Just like with the punctuation, we will show your answer, when the students checks their answers. That way they will see the correct accents, even if they have chosen to practice without them.

Exercises with dropdown lists are exercises where the student has to pick the correct answer from a list of answers.
Example of an exercise with dropdown lists.

Settings

When you create your exercise, make sure you select the dropdown lists option.

Creating an Exercise

Write your first exercise sentence in the first space of the exercises.

Put stars * around the word you want the student to guess. Whatever you put in between stars will become a dropdown list. You can have one or more per sentence.

Think of one or more incorrect answers, to add to the dropdown list. Make sure that you don't have more than one correct answer! You will add these incorrect answers to the correct answer, separated by a vertical bar bars |. In our example we will add the incorrect answers "played" and "has played". You can choose how many wrong answers you want to add, but there has to be at least one. You can also choose where you want the right answer to appear. In our example I'm putting it in the middle. Just make sure you don't always put it in the same place, or it might become too easy for the student to guess.

Put a pound sign # in front of the correct answer.

The Result

That's it! All you have to remember is to put stars * around the word or words you want the student to guess, add wrong answers separated by vertical bars bars | and put a pound sign # in front of the correct answer. Below you see the result of our example sentence, where "to play" will count as the correct answer.

Exercises with radio buttons are exercises where the student has to pick the correct answer from several options, displayed below the sentence.
Example of an exercise with radio buttons.

Settings

When you create your exercise, make sure you select the radio buttons option.

Creating an Exercise

Exercises with radio buttons are created in the exact same way as exercises with dropdown lists. So please read the steps to create a dropdown list exercise! The only difference is that you can only have one radio button per sentence, whereas with dropdown lists you can have several. For dropdown lists we had created the following example:

The Result

Just like with dropdown lists, all you have to remember is to put stars * around the word or words you want the student to guess, add wrong answers separated by vertical bars bars | and put a pound sign # in front of the correct answer. Below you see the result of our example exercise with the radio buttons option selected. The only correct answer is "to play".

Background

Radio button exercises often get very large vertically, so most of the background images will not look good. It's best to select a color or a vertical background. In the image at the top, you see a radio buttons exercise with the "vertical brown stripes" background.

Story exercises are exercises where the student has to first read a story and then answer questions.
Example of a story exercise.

Settings

Story exercises work well with edit boxes, dropdown lists and radio buttons. In thise example we have chosen dropdown lists. You can decide which one you want to use.

Creating an Exercise

First write the story in the description part of the exercise.

Write your first question in the exercise part.

Write the correct answer behind the sentence with stars * around it.

If you have chosen edit boxes, you have to write other different correct answers behind "none", separated by vertical bars bars |.

If you have chosen dropdown lists or radio buttons, you have to add one or more incorrect answers separated by vertical bars bars | and put a pound sign # in front of the correct answer.

Conclusion

That's it! The only thing to keep in mind is that if you choose edit boxes, to make sure there aren't too many possible answers. It can be very frustrating for a student to fill in a correct answer and have it count as incorrect. And if you choose dropdown lists or radio buttons, make sure there isn't more than one correct answer. Besides that, have fun experimenting with story exercises.

Exercises with images are exercises where you display an image and ask questions about it.
Example of an exercise with an image.

Creating an Exercise

Find a suitable image.

Please note that images have to be either taken by you or be in the public domain. Examples of websites that have photos that can be used for free on commercial websites are: pixabay, UnSplash, skitterphoto, gratisography, SplitShire, PicOGraphy, StockSnap, stokpic and pexels.

Please contact us and show us your image and tell us what the source is BEFORE creating your exercise, so we can review it and make sure it can be included. You do not want to spend lots of time creating your exercise if your image is not suitable for inclusion.

Create the exercise. Exercises with images work well with edit boxes, dropdown lists and radio buttons. Choose which one you prefer and read the FAQ of that exercise type to see how to create the exercise.

Contact us again to let us know your exercise is ready, so we can add the image to your exercise.

Conclusion

That's it! The only thing to really keep in mind is that you need to choose an image that can be used on commercial websites. Besides that, have fun experimenting with image exercises.

Exercises with videos are exercises where the student listens to a video and then responds to questions or fills in missing words.
Example of an exercise with a video.

Creating an Exercise

Find a video in YouTube.

Please contact us and show us your YouTube video BEFORE creating your exercise, so we can review it and make sure it can be included. You do not want to spend lots of time creating your exercise if your video is not suitable for inclusion.

Fill in a link to the YouTube video.

Create the exercise. Exercises with videos work especially well with edit boxes. Choose which exercise type you prefer and read the FAQ of that exercise type to see how to create the exercise.

Conclusion

That's it! The only thing to keep in mind is that you choose a video that can be embedded into a website. Besides that, have fun experimenting with video exercises.

Exercises with audio files are exercises where the student listens to an audio and then tries to answer questions.
Example of an exercise with an audio file.

Creating an Exercise

Grab an audio file or find one.

Step 2

Please contact us and show us your audio and tell us what the source is BEFORE creating your exercise, so we can review it and make sure it can be included. You do not want to spend lots of time creating your exercise if your audio is not suitable for inclusion.

Create the exercise. Exercises with audios work well with edit boxes, dropdown lists and radio buttons. Choose which one you prefer and read the FAQ of that exercise type to see how to create the exercise.

Contact us and give us your audio file, so we can add it to your exercise.

Conclusion

That's it! The only thing to keep in mind is that you choose an audio file that is either your own or in the public domain. Besides that, have fun experimenting with audio exercises.

Translation exercises are exercises where the student has to translate from one language to another.
Example of a translation exercise.

Settings

You can make translation type exercises with dropdown lists and radio buttons, but for our example we have chosen edit boxes.

For the numbering style we have chosen the alternate numbering 1, _, 2, _, 3, _, 4, _. This will put a number in front of every other sentence.

Creating an Exercise

Write the sentence you want the student to translate.

On the line right below it, write the translation, surrounded by stars *.

Carefully spend some time thinking of all the different answers the student could fill in that could be valid. Add these behind your answer separated by a vertical bar bars |.

Conclusion

That's it! Just make sure you put stars around the entire sentence and add other valid answers separated by vertical bars bars |.

Dialog exercises are exercises where the student gets a dialog between two people or animals and has to fill in the missing answers.
Example of a dialog exercise.

Settings

You can make dialog type exercises with edit boxes and radio buttons, but for our example I have chosen dropdown lists.

For the numbering style you have to choose person 1, person 2. This will give you spaces to fill in the names of the two people or animals in your dialog. In our example we have Ben and the waiter of the restaurant.

Creating an Exercise

Start the dialog with the person you have chosen as person 1. Just like you learned in the dropdown lists tutorial, add several wrong answers to the correct answer "menu", separated by vertical bars bars |, put a pound sign # in front of the correct answer and put all the options in between stars *.

You will continue the dialog with person 2. If you want one of the dialog persons to say more than one sentence, put that sentence right behind it.

Conclusion

That's it! Just make sure you choose the person 1, person 2 numbering style, put stars * around the options and add either wrong or correct answers, depending on the type of exercise you have chosen, separated by vertical bars bars |.

Grammar exercises are exercises where you test the grammar knowledge of your student.
Example of a grammar exercise.

Settings

You can make grammar type exercises with dropdown lists and radio buttons, but for our example we have chosen edit boxes.

For the numbering style we have chosen the alternate numbering 1, _, 2, _, 3, _, 4, _. This will put a number in front of every other sentence.

Creating an Exercise

Write the sentence you want to ask grammar questions about.

On the line right below it, ask one or more grammar questions about the sentence. In the edit boxes tutorial we explain how to do this.

This creates the following exercise:

Optional

In our example exercise the words "subject" and "verb" are in bold face. If you would like to do this, you can do so as follows:

Conclusion

That's it! Just make sure you choose edit boxes, the alternate numbering style and put stars * around the correct answers.