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EdTech

Learn how to make the most of your Ellii subscription with tips from our publishing team.

Teaching with Ellii

<h1>Google Classroom Integration</h1>

<p>Are you using Google Classroom to communicate with your students? We&rsquo;ve launched the first phase of our Google Classroom integration. You can now post ESL&nbsp;Library assignments directly to Google Classroom so that your students can access all of your assignments in one place. Here&rsquo;s a quick&nbsp;demo.</p>

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<p>Watch for further integrations coming soon, including the ability to import your Google Classroom classes and students directly to the ESL&nbsp;Library platform.</p>


How to Post ESL Library Assignments on Google Classroom

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<h1>Improved Teacher-Student Communication</h1>

<p>Did you know that you can now leave comments for your students at the end of all single&#8209;answer, scorable <a href="https://ellii.com/blog/digital-task-type-demos">task types</a> (e.g., Matching, Multiple-Choice, True or&nbsp;False)?</p>

<p>The general comments area is visible after viewing your students&rsquo; results. You can also edit your comment if your student makes an additional attempt. If you have a comment relating to a specific attempt, it is a good idea to reference this in your comment. For example: <em>Your second attempt was much better. Great&nbsp;work!</em></p>

<p>Your students will see a speech bubble notification on a task if you have left a new comment or edited a comment for a new&nbsp;attempt.</p>

<h1>Demo of Comments Feature</h1>

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<div class="whiteBox"><h5>Note:</h5><p>For <a href="https://ellii.com/blog/open-ended-questions">Open-Ended Question</a>&nbsp;tasks, you can leave ratings and&nbsp;feedback.</p></div>


How to Leave Comments on Student Homework

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<h1>11 Digital&nbsp;Task Types</h1>

<p>To digitize our 1,000+ <a href="https://ellii.com/lessons">lessons and resources</a>, the publishing team is currently using 11 different task types. The task types and corresponding results are designed specifically for English learners and teachers and built by ESL&nbsp;Library&rsquo;s talented designers and engineers. All digital tasks and features are mobile friendly for you and your&nbsp;students.</p>

<p>The task type name is now available for teachers to see underneath the title of each digital task when a lesson or resource is open on a digital&nbsp;tab.</p>

<p><img alt="Screenshot showing a list of tasks and their task types" src="https://esllibrary.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/ckeditor/pictures/291/content_Screen_Shot_2020-05-13_at_9.08.24_AM.png" /></p>

<h1>Demos of Digital Task&nbsp;Types</h1>

<p>Here are video demos for teachers that show how each of our existing task types looks for you and your&nbsp;students:</p>

<ol>
	<li><a href="https://help.ellii.com/article/229-read-listen">Reference</a>: a multipurpose, non-scoreable instructional task type (Read &amp; Listen, Grammar Notes, Warm-Up/Discussion Questions,&nbsp;etc.)</li>
	<li><a href="https://help.ellii.com/article/230-dialogue">Dialogue</a>: a non-scorable task type for reading and listening to&nbsp;dialogues</li>
	<li><a href="https://help.ellii.com/article/238-image-match">Image Match</a>: a vocabulary preview or review task with&nbsp;visuals</li>
	<li><a href="https://help.ellii.com/article/239-matching">Matching</a>: a text-only vocabulary preview or review&nbsp;task</li>
	<li><a href="https://help.ellii.com/article/235-see-spell">See &amp; Spell</a>: a low-level, vocabulary-building task that is not case sensitive and often includes&nbsp;audio</li>
	<li><a href="https://help.ellii.com/article/237-open-ended-questions">Open-Ended Questions</a>: a written response task or assessment with optional feedback and ratings (suggested answers available where&nbsp;applicable)</li>
	<li><a href="https://help.ellii.com/article/231-listen-type">Type in the Blanks</a>: a case-sensitive task used for listening practice (Listen &amp; Type), sentence completion, grammar/vocabulary practice, and&nbsp;assessment</li>
	<li><a href="https://help.ellii.com/article/240-true-or-false">True or False</a>: a reading comprehension&nbsp;task</li>
	<li><a href="https://help.ellii.com/article/232-multiple-choice">Multiple-Choice</a>: a reading or vocabulary comprehension task, also used in grammar lessons, may include images or audio (Listen &amp;&nbsp;Respond)</li>
	<li><a href="https://help.ellii.com/article/234-story-scramble">Put in Order</a>: a follow-up&nbsp;reading comprehension task for dialogues (Story&nbsp;Scramble)</li>
	<li><a href="https://help.ellii.com/article/233-timeline">Sequencing</a>: a reading comprehension task for historic events and biographies&nbsp;(Timeline)</li>
	<li><a href="https://help.ellii.com/article/236-picture-dictionary">Picture Dictionary</a>: a vocabulary slideshow with audio</li>
</ol>

<h2>Additional Notes</h2>

<ul>
	<li>Teachers can now leave comments after viewing results for all scorable task&nbsp;types.</li>
	<li>Time spent on each task is available on the results&nbsp;table.</li>
	<li>A digital&nbsp;<a href="https://ellii.com/blog/flashcard-player">Flashcard Player</a> is also available as a presentation&nbsp;tool.</li>
	<li>All ESL&nbsp;Library subscribers receive 100 free student accounts and can broadcast all digital task types on a shared&nbsp;screen.</li>
	<li>Standard subscribers can assign limited task types for homework (Read &amp; Listen or&nbsp;Dialogue).</li>
	<li>Plus subscribers can assign all digital task types, view class and students results, and leave feedback. See our <a href="https://ellii.com/pricing">Pricing</a> page for plan&nbsp;details.</li>
</ul>


Digital Task Type Demos

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<h1>Automated Assessment</h1>

<p>One thing students need to get used to when it comes to&nbsp;digital learning&nbsp;is that a computer often marks their work. This can be a blessing for busy teachers, especially when students are able to make&nbsp;multiple attempts for each task. However, you probably make a lot more exceptions for your students than a programmer does!</p>

<p>While <em>you</em> might consider an answer to be acceptable, the system will mark it as either <strong>correct</strong> or <strong>incorrect </strong>unless it&#39;s an <a href="https://ellii.com/blog/open-ended-questions">open-ended question</a> type.</p>

<p>Some digital platforms allow teachers to go in and change a result&nbsp;depending on their expectations. Other platforms, including ESL Library,&nbsp;do not yet have this feature, and you and your students are stuck with the score that the system assigns unless you contact someone.</p>

<h1>ESL Library&#39;s Digital Tasks</h1>

<p>With each ESL Library task type, the publishing team (made up of teachers and former teachers) has had to make some decisions about what type of responses will be accepted or not. In our <strong>Type in the Blanks</strong> tasks, we decided that proper capitalization should be required. This means that in&nbsp;a task titled&nbsp;<a href="https://ellii.com/blog/blended-learning-listening">Listen &amp; Type</a>, students have to type a capital letter at the beginning of a sentence. Students also have to type proper nouns with initial capital letters.</p>

<p>For example, if your student types <strong>CAT</strong> instead of <strong>cat,</strong>&nbsp;the system will mark the answer&nbsp;wrong. Likewise, if your student types <strong>english</strong> instead of <strong>English </strong>or <strong>it&#39;s</strong> instead of <strong>its</strong>,&nbsp;the answer will be marked as incorrect. This can become a big problem if your students are used to using a backquote&nbsp;(`) instead of a proper&nbsp;apostrophe (&#39;) or, more commonly, have a bad habit of typing&nbsp;with the caps lock on.&nbsp;</p>

<p>What we hoped would happen is that students would quickly learn that typing with the caps lock on is a mistake, as is leaving out an apostrophe (or using the wrong one). After all, ALL CAPS&nbsp;is not an acceptable style of writing in academic or business writing (except in rare situations, such as&nbsp;on envelopes). In fact, in English, using ALL CAPS&nbsp;can be seen as rude. <a href="https://ellii.com/resource_categories/107/resources/3292">Digital literacy</a> is an important skill to learn and can be taught along with language learning.</p>

<h1>Teacher Feedback</h1>

<p>Since making this decision, a number of teachers have written in to let us know their thoughts. Some&nbsp;think their students&#39; answers should be marked as correct&nbsp;regardless of case, especially in grammar exercises that are not full sentences. Others have let us know where instructions need to be more clear about how an answer should be styled to ensure students have a good model to follow&nbsp;(very helpful, thank you!).&nbsp;</p>

<p>For our <a href="https://ellii.com/blog/see-and-spell">See &amp; Spell</a><strong> </strong>task type, which is mainly&nbsp;used in beginner-level lessons, we do allow for mixed-case responses&nbsp;due to feedback from literacy and low-level teachers. However, some teachers may prefer that all typing tasks have the same requirements so that students know what not to do for other tasks.</p>

<h1>Survey Question</h1>

<p>We&#39;d love to know what you think about this question:</p>

<p><em>On an educational&nbsp;platform or app such as ESL Library, should the system accept all&nbsp;correctly spelled answers regardless of case?&nbsp;</em></p>

<p>Please respond in the comments!</p>


Join the Great CAPS LOCK Debate

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<p>Update: Already familiar with our Flashcard Player? See v.2 updates in the second demo below.</p>

<h1>Broadcast Digital Flashcards&nbsp;</h1>

<p>We&rsquo;re thrilled to announce the arrival of our new Flashcard Player. This digital tool allows teachers to present their own custom-made flashcard sets on a shared screen in a live class. Whether you&rsquo;re teaching online or heading back to the classroom, we know you&rsquo;re going to love ESL&nbsp;Library&rsquo;s new addition (<a href="https://ellii.com/pricing">available for Standard and Plus plan members</a>).</p>

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<h1>Flashcard Player Features (v.2)</h1>

<p>The updated version (v.2) of our Flashcard Player allows teachers&nbsp;to:</p>

<ul>
	<li>launch a saved/edited flashcard set from My Folders (go to: Class Prep &rarr; My Folders &rarr; Flashcard&nbsp;Folders)</li>
	<li>show each image from the set to elicit vocabulary (image&nbsp;only)</li>
	<li>click on an image to reveal the text (image +&nbsp;text)</li>
	<li>click on the text to hide the image (text&nbsp;only)</li>
	<li>advance to the next image or go&nbsp;back</li>
	<li>launch from Manage flashcards page after saving a&nbsp;set</li>
	<li>view a sidebar menu</li>
	<li>skip to a flashcard from sidebar&nbsp;menu</li>
	<li>rename a flashcard from sidebar&nbsp;menu</li>
	<li>remove a flashcard from sidebar menu (for the presentation&nbsp;only)</li>
	<li>choose the default presentation&nbsp;style</li>
	<li>choose the presentation font style (Standard or&nbsp;Literacy)</li>
</ul>

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<h1>Coming Soon</h1>

<p>Our designers and engineers are currently working on a few more advanced features for our Flashcard Player. In upcoming versions, you will be able&nbsp;to:</p>

<ul>
	<li>search for and add flashcards from a presentation&nbsp;menu</li>
	<li>play audio for each&nbsp;word (see our new<a href="https://ellii.com/blog/picture-dictionary"> Picture Dictionary</a> task)</li>
</ul>

<p>Stay tuned!</p>


Introducing ESL Library's Flashcard Player 

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<h1>About Open-Ended Questions</h1>

<p>There are several <a href="https://help.ellii.com/category/119-digital-tools">task types</a> available on our digital platform. Many are multiple‑choice, matching, or fill-in-the-blank types that have a single answer. Students can view their own results in real time for these types. Other types, such as those titled Read &amp; Listen and Dialogue, do not have results for students because there is nothing to show. However, they do track how long a student spent reading or&nbsp;listening.</p>

<p>Our open-ended question (OEQ) tasks are unique in that they allow students to type short or long responses to questions and prompts. Teachers can view these responses and leave a rating and/or written feedback. Students view the feedback on their own dashboards. (Scroll down for video&nbsp;demo.)</p>

<p>Here are just a few of the question types you&rsquo;ll see in digital lessons that use the OEQ task&nbsp;type:</p>

<ol>
	<li>Comprehension</li>
	<li>Grammar Practice</li>
	<li>Writing Practice</li>
	<li>Summarizing</li>
	<li>Question Time</li>
	<li>Research</li>
	<li>Quiz</li>
	<li>Assessment</li>
</ol>

<p>With your <a href="https://ellii.com/pricing">Plus</a> subscription (and in the free upgrade for all until June&nbsp;2020), you can assign digital OEQ tasks to your students for homework. Your students can do these task types on any mobile device or&nbsp;computer.</p>

<h1>Open-Ended Questions: Demo</h1>

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<h1>Step-by-Step with Screenshots</h1>

<p>If you don&rsquo;t have time to watch the demo, here are some screenshots of the teacher and student views for each&nbsp;feature.</p>

<h2>Completing an OEQ Task (Student&nbsp;View)</h2>

<p>Students start by reading the instructions. Unlike some of our other task types, the&nbsp;instructions will vary based on the&nbsp;activity.</p>

<p><img alt="" class="hasBorder" src="https://esllibrary.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/ckeditor/pictures/267/content_Screen_Shot_2020-04-13_at_1.19.16_PM.png" /></p>

<p>Where applicable, there may also be a View Reference button. Students can type an answer or leave the question blank and advance to the next&nbsp;question.</p>

<p><img alt="" class="hasBorder" src="https://esllibrary.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/ckeditor/pictures/266/content_Screen_Shot_2020-04-13_at_1.19.25_PM.png" /></p>

<hr />
<h2>Reviewing/Editing OEQ Answers (Student&nbsp;View)</h2>

<p>After students complete all of the questions, they get a chance to review and edit their answers. When they are happy with their answers, students hit Submit Answers&mdash;they can no longer edit their answers. Students now wait for feedback from a&nbsp;teacher. They can also retry the task. This will appear as a second attempt.</p>

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<p>This is the notification your students see&nbsp;to tell them that they can no longer edit an OEQ task. The student will see n/a instead of a score. If they click on this, they will see their own answers and ESL&nbsp;Library&amp;rsquos Suggested Answers (if&nbsp;applicable).</p>

<p><img alt="" class="hasBorder" src="https://esllibrary.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/ckeditor/pictures/269/content_Screen_Shot_2020-04-09_at_12.09.45_PM.png" /></p>

<hr />
<h2>Viewing OEQ Results and Leaving Feedback/Ratings (Teacher&nbsp;View)</h2>

<p>As a teacher, you can see your students&rsquo; results immediately after they complete an OEQ task set. Make sure you are logged in. Then go to Class Prep and navigate to&nbsp;<a href="https://help.ellii.com/article/129-how-to-access-digital-homework-teachers">Results</a>.</p>

<p>For this task type, you can also leave feedback and ratings. You will see the word &ldquo;Assess&rdquo; if a task has an option to leave feedback and ratings&nbsp;(currently only available on OEQ&nbsp;tasks).</p>

<p><img alt="" class="hasBorder" src="https://esllibrary.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/ckeditor/pictures/270/content_Screen_Shot_2020-04-07_at_2.27.36_PM.png" /></p>

<p>You can choose Rate Answer (see below for the four proficiency statements) for each question. This is optional. You can also leave optional written feedback for each question. In addition, you will see Suggested Answers if answers are available in the text. (Think of this as the digital Answer&nbsp;Key.)</p>

<p><img alt="" class="hasBorder" src="https://esllibrary.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/ckeditor/pictures/271/content_Screen_Shot_2020-04-09_at_12.10.36_PM.png" /></p>

<hr />
<h2>Viewing OEQ Feedback &amp; Suggested Answers (Student&nbsp;View)</h2>

<p>After you leave ratings/feedback, your students will see a notification (pen) on their dashboards. Since there is no numerical score, they will see &ldquo;n/a&rdquo; in the Score field along with a pen that shows there is feedback to&nbsp;review.</p>

<p>(Note the video demo does not show the notification of feedback on the Student Dashboard. In the video, the student had previously viewed the assessment so the pen was gone and the assignment had moved to&nbsp;Past.)</p>

<p><img alt="" class="hasBorder" src="https://esllibrary.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/ckeditor/pictures/272/content_Screen_Shot_2020-04-09_at_12.13.02_PM.png" /></p>

<p>This is the feedback/rating your student sees after you&rsquo;ve left&nbsp;feedback.</p>

<p><img alt="" class="hasBorder" src="https://esllibrary.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/ckeditor/pictures/274/content_Screen_Shot_2020-04-09_at_12.12.24_PM.png" /></p>

<p>Our LMS team is also working on other areas where teachers can add more comments for students on the platform. We&rsquo;d love to hear your feedback and thoughts in the comments&nbsp;below!</p>

<h1>Related</h1>

<ul class="resources">
	<li class="blog-post"><a href="https://ellii.com/blog/product-feature-update-matching-vocabulary-preview">Matching: Demo</a></li>
	<li class="blog-post"><a href="https://ellii.com/blog/image-match-interactive-vocabulary-building-for-beginner-english-learners">Image Match: Demo</a></li>
	<li class="blog-post"><a href="https://ellii.com/blog/see-and-spell">See &amp; Spell: Demo</a></li>
	<li class="blog-post"><a href="https://ellii.com/blog/blended-learning-listening">Listen &amp; Type: Demo</a></li>
	<li class="question"><a href="https://help.ellii.com/article/181-video-read-listen-task-demo">Read &amp; Listen: Demo</a></li>
	<li class="question"><a href="https://help.ellii.com/article/184-video-dialogue-task-demo">Dialogue: Demo</a></li>
</ul>


Open-Ended Questions

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Learn tips on how to teach grammar and usage from our editors and grammar experts. 

Grammar & Usage

<h1>Teaching Grammar Online with ESL Library</h1>

<p>Teaching grammar can be a challenge at the best of times, and having to suddenly manage it digitally can be especially difficult. We hope this series of posts on how to teach grammar online will be helpful!&nbsp;Please feel free to leave comments and questions below.</p>

<p>This three-part grammar series will cover:</p>

<ul>
	<li><a href="https://ellii.com/blog/teaching-grammar-online-with-esl-library">How to Teach Grammar Online</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://ellii.com/blog/how-to-assign-grammar-tasks-online">How to Assign Grammar Tasks Online</a></li>
	<li>How to Assess Grammar Online&nbsp;(this post)</li>
</ul>

<h1>How to Assess Grammar Online</h1>

<p>Our <a href="https://ellii.com/courses/88/lessons">Grammar Practice Worksheets</a> section has 60 lessons available on our online platform. Choose any grammar lesson that has the digital (computer) icon. During the COVID-19 pandemic, our Standard plan subscribers have <a href="https://ellii.com/blog/teaching-with-digital-resources-during-the-covid-19-pandemic">free access</a> to all our Premium plan digital tasks, so you will be able to use them all with your students.</p>

<p>As a reminder from our previous post, to assign a task for homework, use&nbsp;the Assign Tasks button from a lesson page or from My Classes under the Class Prep dropdown (see our&nbsp;<a href="https://help.ellii.com/category/110-digital-tools">Help Docs</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://help.ellii.com/category/119-digital-tools">How-To Videos</a>&nbsp;for help with this).&nbsp;</p>

<p>You will get your students&#39; results in real&nbsp;time for most tasks. For tasks with written (typed) answers, you will be able to score the answers and leave written feedback for your learners.</p>

<p>Keep in mind that you could also assign tasks for your students to complete during an online session. This way&nbsp;they can complete the tasks individually at their own pace (just as they would in class using a paper-based exercise), and you can see the&nbsp;results for all your students while you&#39;re conducting a class using a screensharing platform. After your students complete a task, you could choose to go through it while screensharing to discuss any problems they may have had.</p>

<h1>Quizzes</h1>

<p>More than half of our online <a href="https://ellii.com/courses/88/lessons">Grammar Practice Worksheets</a> lessons have a quiz on the grammar target from the lesson. We are diligently adding quizzes to the rest and hope to have them all ready soon.</p>

<p>Quizzes are a great way to assess your students&#39; comprehension of an individual grammar target. If they do well, you can confidently move on to another target. If they don&#39;t do well, you could reassign some (or all) of the tasks from the lesson to the whole class or just to individual students who need extra practice.</p>

<p>Alternatively, you could assign related online materials for that target.&nbsp;To find related materials, see the Related section on each Lesson Show Page. Click on a lesson or resource and look for the computer icon, or use a screensharing platform to display the PDF&nbsp;version to your students.&nbsp;</p>

<h1>Placement &amp; Final Assessment</h1>

<p>We have four grammar tests available online that can be used as intake/placement tests, review, or exit exams. You can assign all tasks from a test or just the parts that you&#39;ve covered. Most tasks provide instant results with a few open-ended answers where you can leave feedback. Find a lot more useful information on these tests <a href="https://ellii.com/blog/introducing-our-new-grammar-tests">in this post</a>. You will find these tests in our <a href="https://ellii.com/resource_categories/104/resources">Assessment Tools</a> or&nbsp;<a href="https://ellii.com/courses/88/lessons">Grammar Practice Worksheets</a> sections (or click on the links below).</p>

<p>To preview the tests, click on a link below and click on the computer (digital) icon. Then click on the task title to preview each task.</p>

<ul>
	<li><a href="https://ellii.com/resource_categories/assessment-tools/resources/2448-grammar-test-1">Grammar Test 1 &ndash; Beginner</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://ellii.com/resource_categories/assessment-tools/resources/2449-grammar-test-2">Grammar Test 2 &ndash; Low-Intermediate</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://ellii.com/resource_categories/assessment-tools/resources/2450-grammar-test-3">Grammar Test 3 &ndash; Intermediate</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://ellii.com/resource_categories/assessment-tools/resources/2451-grammar-test-4">Grammar Test 4 &ndash; High-Intermediate&ndash;Advanced</a></li>
</ul>

<p>We hope you found this final post in our three-part series about teaching grammar online useful!</p>

<p>Here are the first two posts in the series:&nbsp;</p>

<ul>
	<li><a href="https://ellii.com/blog/teaching-grammar-online-with-esl-library">How to Teach Grammar Online</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://ellii.com/blog/how-to-assign-grammar-tasks-online">How to Assign Grammar Tasks Online</a></li>
</ul>


How to Assess Grammar Online

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<h1>Teaching Grammar Online with ESL Library</h1>

<p>Teaching grammar can be a challenge at the best of times, and having to suddenly manage it digitally can be especially difficult. We hope this series of posts on how to teach grammar online will be helpful!&nbsp;Please feel free to leave comments and questions below. We&#39;re here for you!</p>

<p>This three-part grammar series will cover:</p>

<ul>
	<li><a href="https://ellii.com/blog/teaching-grammar-online-with-esl-library">How to Teach Grammar Online</a></li>
	<li>How to Assign Grammar Tasks Online (this post)</li>
	<li><a href="https://ellii.com/blog/how-to-assess-grammar-online">How to Assess Grammar Online</a></li>
</ul>

<h1>How to Assign Grammar Tasks Online</h1>

<p>Our <a href="https://ellii.com/courses/88/lessons">Grammar Practice Worksheets</a> section has 60 lessons available on our online platform.</p>

<p>Once you&#39;ve chosen a target and clicked on the Digital tab, you will see all the digital tasks that are available to our subscribers. During the COVID-19 pandemic, our Standard plan subscribers have <a href="https://ellii.com/blog/teaching-with-digital-resources-during-the-covid-19-pandemic">free access</a> to all our Premium plan digital tasks, so you will be able to use them all with your students.</p>

<h2>1. Order of Tasks</h2>

<p>The digital tasks in every <a href="https://ellii.com/courses/88/lessons">Grammar Practice Worksheets</a>&nbsp;lesson follow a logical, progressive order (with the easiest tasks at the beginning and the more difficult ones at the end). All these&nbsp;lessons begin with the grammar notes&nbsp;and most end with a quiz (see <a href="https://ellii.com/blog/how-to-assess-grammar-online">How to Assess Grammar Online</a>).</p>

<p>For example, our <a href="https://ellii.com/courses/88/lessons/1594">Simple Past</a> lesson includes&nbsp;the grammar notes followed by two easy multiple-choice exercises to practice positive and negative sentences in the simple past. After that, there are two tasks to practice regular verbs. Next comes an irregular verb list and two practice exercises. The remaining four tasks include a mix of regular and irregular verbs and cover time markers, question formation, and opposites. The lesson concludes with a quiz&mdash;a quick assessment task so you can check your students&#39; comprehension of everything they learned in this lesson.</p>

<p>Keep in mind that the task order is only a general guideline. Feel free to vary the order of the tasks you assign according to&nbsp;the needs of your students.</p>

<h2>2. Launching Tasks</h2>

<p>You can <a href="https://ellii.com/blog/launch-or-preview-digital-tasks">preview each task</a> before you assign it by clicking the task title. This is also how you would <a href="https://ellii.com/blog/launch-or-preview-digital-tasks">launch the task</a>&nbsp;if you were screensharing it. Under Task Info, you will find the answer key and the task at a glance all on one page.</p>

<p>How many tasks should you do at one time? This depends on the time of your session and the needs of your learners.&nbsp;</p>

<p>If you only have an hour, try going through two or three tasks plus correction and discussion. If you are teaching the same learners all week, you could break up the lesson and do two or three tasks a day from the lesson along with other related material (see the Related section of any lesson page). If your students appear to know the grammar target quite well, you could do a couple of tasks and then move on to another target. However, if you have a long class, you could definitely cover the whole lesson (all the tasks for one target) since they are progressive in difficulty and not repetitive in nature.</p>

<p>You could always assign one or two tasks (or all of them!) for homework. See the next section for more information on assigning tasks for homework.</p>

<h2>3. Assigning Tasks</h2>

<p>To assign a task for homework, use&nbsp;the Assignment Manager button from a lesson page (see our <a href="https://help.ellii.com/category/110-digital-tools">Help Docs</a> and <a href="https://help.ellii.com/category/119-digital-tools">How-To Videos</a>&nbsp;for help with this).&nbsp;</p>

<p>You will get your students&#39; results in real&nbsp;time for most tasks. For tasks with written (typed) answers, you will be able to score the answers and leave written feedback for your learners.</p>

<p>Keep in mind that you could also assign tasks for your students to complete during an online session. This way&nbsp;they can complete the tasks individually at their own pace (just as they would in class using a paper-based exercise), and you can see the&nbsp;results for all your students while you&#39;re conducting a class using a screensharing platform. After your students complete a task, you could choose to go through it while screensharing to discuss any problems they may have had.</p>

<p>The beauty of assigning homework tasks is that you could always choose to assign more to students who are struggling and fewer to students who aren&#39;t. You can also assign a random, one-off task on a certain target from any lesson to a student who had a question about it or wanted extra practice.</p>

<h1>Teaching Order</h1>

<p>When should you teach articles? How about prepositions of place? Should you teach imperative verbs before the present progressive? Many teachers wonder which order of grammar targets is best. We have a <a href="https://ellii.com/courses/88/lessons/2565">Teaching Order</a> chart for our <a href="https://ellii.com/courses/88/lessons">Grammar Practice Worksheets</a> section that you can apply to all our grammar materials.</p>

<p>Please keep in mind that this is a general guideline and is absolutely not set in stone! The order can vary according to your students&#39; needs. It may also vary if you&#39;re following a certain curriculum.</p>

<p><a href="https://ellii.com/courses/88/lessons/2565">This resource</a> is mainly for teachers, and as such&nbsp;it is not available as an assignable digital resource, but feel free to share this order with your students using a screensharing platform. You could also download the PDF and email it to your students if you want them to see it.</p>

<p>If you&#39;re an online tutor, you can customize your teaching order much more easily. Try giving&nbsp;your student(s) a list of grammar targets and ask which ones they struggle with the most. Assign writing and/or speaking tasks to discover which targets your student&nbsp;struggles with. You could also use the four assessment/placement tests mentioned above. Any of these methods will also work with a big class, but it might be a bit more difficult to establish a teaching order if your students&#39; needs vary widely.</p>

<p>We hope you found this second post in our three-part series about teaching grammar online useful!</p>

<ul>
	<li>Here is the next post in the series: <a href="https://ellii.com/blog/how-to-assess-grammar-online">How to Assess Grammar Online</a></li>
	<li>If you missed our first post in the series, find it here: <a href="https://ellii.com/blog/teaching-grammar-online-with-esl-library">How to Teach Grammar Online</a></li>
</ul>

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<h1>Teaching Grammar Online with ESL Library</h1>

<p>With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic came many, many changes for people all over the world.&nbsp;We&#39;ve all had to adapt to numerous disruptions to our lives&mdash;socially, physically, emotionally, and financially, to name a few.</p>

<p>For teachers, the abrupt switch (in many cases)&nbsp;to online teaching has been especially challenging. At ESL Library, we&#39;ve been helping our overwhelmed ESL/ELT community as best we can with <a href="https://ellii.com/blog/teaching-with-digital-resources-during-the-covid-19-pandemic">free upgrades</a>, <a href="https://ellii.com/blog/teaching-online-webinars">webinars</a>, <a href="https://ellii.com/blog/faq-teachers">FAQs</a>, and <a href="https://ellii.com/collections/69/lessons">new materials</a>.</p>

<p>Teaching grammar can be a challenge at the best of times, and having to suddenly manage it digitally was certainly&nbsp;a frightening prospect for some of us.&nbsp;We hope the following blog post on how to teach grammar online will be helpful!&nbsp;Please feel free to leave comments and questions below. We&#39;re here for you&mdash;you&#39;re not alone.</p>

<p>This three-part grammar series will cover:</p>

<ul>
	<li>How to Teach Grammar Online (this post)</li>
	<li><a href="https://ellii.com/blog/how-to-assign-grammar-tasks-online">How to Assign Grammar Tasks Online</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://ellii.com/blog/how-to-assess-grammar-online">How to Assess Grammar Online</a></li>
</ul>

<h1>Grammar Notes</h1>

<p>All of our 60 digital&nbsp;<a href="https://ellii.com/courses/88/lessons">Grammar Practice Worksheets</a> lessons have <strong>Grammar Notes</strong> as the first assignable online task. These notes contain helpful explanations, examples, rules, and exceptions for each grammar target. Read on for four different ways to present these notes to your students!</p>

<p>To present these grammar notes using our online platform,&nbsp;click on the Digital tab for any grammar lesson. You can now&nbsp;click on Assign Tasks to share the grammar notes on your students&#39; own devices, or you can click on the first title to launch the task (if using a screensharing&nbsp;program). See our <a href="https://help.ellii.com/category/110-digital-tools">Help Docs</a> and <a href="https://help.ellii.com/category/119-digital-tools">How-To Videos</a> for step-by-step guidance&nbsp;or attend one of our free&nbsp;<a href="http://ellii.com/blog/teaching-online-webinars">webinars</a>.</p>

<p>Note that some grammar lessons contain more comprehensive grammar notes in the PDF (printable) version, including charts, more examples, and extra exceptions to a rule. Remember that you have the option of&nbsp;using&nbsp;a screensharing platform to display the PDF during your live class. You could also download the PDF and email it to your students.</p>

<h1>How to Teach Grammar Online</h1>

<p>There are different&nbsp;ways to introduce a grammar target to your learners. Choose one of the following methods based on your personal preference. You could also try each method and see which is best for your learners, or you could try different methods for different targets for variety.</p>

<h2>1. Read through the grammar notes together</h2>

<p>If you like explicit grammar instruction, this method is for you.</p>

<p>Before you begin the grammar practice tasks, walk your students through the grammar presentation notes while screensharing the notes or while they follow along on their own devices. There are plenty of ways to make this more interactive!</p>

<ul>
	<li>Have students take turns reading the examples out loud so you can also work on their pronunciation (and so they&#39;re not only listening to your voice&nbsp;the whole time).</li>
	<li>Elicit as you go. For example, before reading about the form or function&nbsp;of a target, ask &quot;Does anyone know the two ways we can contract &#39;He is not&#39;?&quot; or &quot;Does anyone know when&nbsp;we use the present perfect tense?&quot;</li>
	<li>Have students come up with their own example sentences. After reading the examples from the grammar notes, have students think of more and share them.</li>
	<li>Follow up with a discussion. Do your students now understand the form and function of a target? Are they clear on&nbsp;the exceptions to the general rules? Do they need more examples from you? Do they have any further questions about the target?</li>
</ul>

<h2>2. Assign the grammar notes for homework</h2>

<p>If you like explicit instruction but want your learners to take charge of their own learning, give this method a try.</p>

<p>The day&nbsp;before you start a new grammar lesson, assign the grammar notes task as homework. Have students read through them and write down any questions they have to ask you the next day.</p>

<ul>
	<li>To make it more interactive, you could tell students to be prepared to answer your questions about the notes the next day.</li>
	<li>You could also ask them comprehension-check questions about the basics of form and function of the target.</li>
	<li>You may want to ask about the exceptions as well since those are trickier to learn and remember.</li>
</ul>

<h2>3. Assign grammar practice tasks before reviewing the grammar notes</h2>

<p>If you prefer&nbsp;implicit grammar acquisition, give this method a try.</p>

<p>This method involves skipping&nbsp;the grammar notes at first.</p>

<ul>
	<li>Assign one or more of the grammar tasks&nbsp;and see if your students can tell&nbsp;<em>you</em>&nbsp;the grammar rules the next day. By doing a bit of practice, can they figure out the rules and patterns of the target you&#39;re studying?</li>
	<li>Next, go through the grammar notes together or assign them for homework. If you&#39;re doing them together, you can refer to examples from the tasks they&#39;ve already done.</li>
	<li>After covering the notes, assign the rest of the tasks in the lesson.</li>
</ul>

<h2>4. Assign a non-grammar lesson that uses the grammar target in context</h2>

<p>If you like the communicative approach to teaching, try this method.</p>

<p>In the top right-hand corner of <a href="https://ellii.com">ESL&nbsp;Library&#39;s website</a>, you&#39;ll find the search icon (the magnifying glass). After clicking on it, type in the grammar target in the search field and choose a non-grammar lesson from the list (if applicable). Students will be able to see the target in context.</p>

<p>For example, <a href="https://ellii.com/courses?query=imperative">search for &quot;imperative.&quot;</a> You will be able to assign a <a href="https://ellii.com/courses/92/lessons">Functional English</a> lesson on <a href="https://ellii.com/courses/92/lessons/2119">Following Instructions</a> or <a href="https://ellii.com/courses/92/lessons/1755">Following Procedures</a>, a <a href="https://ellii.com/courses/74/lessons">Writing in English</a> lesson on <a href="https://ellii.com/courses/74/lessons/1991">How to Write a Recipe</a>, or a <a href="https://ellii.com/courses/93/lessons">Holiday &amp; Events</a> lesson on <a href="https://ellii.com/courses/93/lessons/2199">Earth Day</a>. Our <a href="https://ellii.com/courses/90/lessons">Grammar Stories</a> section also has plenty of targets in context.</p>

<ul>
	<li>Have students underline examples of the target that they see in context.</li>
	<li>From there, you can try to elicit the basic form and function of the target.</li>
	<li>Then you can try the rest of the grammar practice tasks.</li>
	<li>Afterward, you can decide to use the grammar notes to review tricky exceptions to a rule, skip the notes entirely, or assign the notes only to students who are struggling with the target.</li>
	<li>As a follow-up, you can have your intermediate to advanced students find other examples online (news articles, blog posts, etc.) that use the target and share them together the next day.</li>
</ul>

<p>We hope you found this first post in our three-part series about teaching grammar online useful!</p>

<p>Here are the next two posts in the series:</p>

<ul>
	<li><a href="https://ellii.com/blog/how-to-assign-grammar-tasks-online">How to Assign Grammar Tasks Online</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://ellii.com/blog/how-to-assess-grammar-online">How to Assess Grammar Online</a></li>
</ul>


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<h1>Getting Started</h1>

<p>Are you just getting started with ESL Library&#39;s digital tools and platform? Here is a list of frequently asked&nbsp;questions and answers about our digital tools. If you have another question, feel free to ask it in <strong>Comments</strong> below or click the blue question mark found in the bottom&nbsp;right corner on any page on our site.</p>

<h2>Does ESL Library have its own web conferencing platform?</h2>

<p>No. ESL Library offers printable and digitized content that you and your students can use in two ways. First, you can work together using our <a href="https://ellii.com/blog/launch-or-preview-digital-tasks">Broadcast</a> tool. To do the lessons together, you need to be&nbsp;in a live online class using a web conferencing platform like Zoom, Google Meet, Skype, or Microsoft Teams. Choose the digital lesson you want to do together. Then&nbsp;screenshare with your students as you work through the tasks. Your students do not need to log in to ESL Library for your&nbsp;live class. They just join your web conference and you launch the content. Second, you can <a href="https://help.ellii.com/article/122-how-to-assign-digital-homework">assign digital tasks</a> to your students to complete&nbsp;on their own devices. Your students do need an ESL Library account to do this (free for students). Watch&nbsp;<a href="https://help.ellii.com/article/191-video-how-to-create-classes-and-invite-students">How to Create Classes and Invite Students</a>.</p>

<h2>Do my students need an email address to sign up for a student account?</h2>

<p>No.&nbsp;You can give your students a class code&nbsp;instead of having them sign up with email. Here is a <a href="https://help.ellii.com/article/128-how-to-invite-students-to-esl-library-digital-without-an-email-address">Help Doc</a>&nbsp;that walks you through the steps. Here is a <a href="https://ellii.com/blog/students-join-with-class-code">video demo</a>&nbsp;made for students.</p>

<h2>My student forgot their username and/or password. What should I do?</h2>

<p>Go to My Classes from the top navigation bar and scroll down to My Students until you see your student&#39;s name and username/email. Click on the three dots at the end of the table and choose Reset Password. Create a new password for your student and tell your student what this temporary password is. The next time your student logs in they can use the temporary&nbsp;password you made. Then they can go to My Profile and Change Password to create their own new password that you do not know.</p>

<h2>Can I send a single invitation that goes out to all of my students?</h2>

<p>We recommend having your students sign up as a group using the class code and secret word. You can screenshare this information in a live class. Here is a <a href="https://help.ellii.com/article/128-how-to-invite-students-to-esl-library-digital-without-an-email-address">Help Doc</a>&nbsp;that walks you through all the steps. You can also <a href="https://help.ellii.com/article/113-how-to-invite-students-to-esl-library-digital">invite students individually using email</a>. They each need their own invitation.</p>

<h2>Can my students do their ESL Library homework on their mobile phones?</h2>

<p>Yes. All of ESL Library&#39;s digital tasks were designed to work on mobile devices or desktop. The Student Dashboard is also mobile-friendly.</p>

<h2>Does ESL Library integrate with Google Classroom?</h2>

<p>Yes. You can now share an assignment on Google Classroom. Simply choose a class and assign some digital tasks. Then click the Share on Google Classroom icon. When your students are logged into Google Classroom they&nbsp;will see a link that takes them to their ESL Library assigment. We are currently working on more integration features.&nbsp;</p>

<h2>Can I upload ESL Library content to Google Classroom?</h2>

<p>No. Our terms do not allow you to take our content and move it to another platform. If your students don&#39;t have their own devices to do the digital tasks, you can screenshare the content in a live class. You can also email the PDFs to your students if digital content does not exist.</p>

<h2>How can I use the audio component during live lessons?</h2>

<p>When you are teaching a live lesson and screensharing an ESL Library digital lesson, you can play the audio from your own computer or device and your students will be able to hear it as long as you don&#39;t have your headphones plugged in.&nbsp;You may want to mute&nbsp;yourself (and students) while audio is playing to reduce any echo or sound problems.</p>

<h2>Can I use ESL Library flashcards in a live class?</h2>

<p>Yes! We have a Flashcard Player that allows you to broadcast a flashcard set. <a href="https://ellii.com/blog/flashcard-player">Learn more here.</a></p>

<h2>Can I make the font size larger?</h2>

<p>We don&#39;t currently offer any features for increasing the font size of our digital materials.&nbsp;However, you can zoom in on your own screensharing program if you need to increase the text (especially useful for a formatted Reference task; please share this tip with your students). Our Flashcard Player also has two different font styles to choose from (Standard or Literacy).</p>

<h2>How can I see my students&#39; results?</h2>

<p>Go to My Classes in the top navigation and find the results for the class or student you want to see. (See&nbsp;<a href="https://help.ellii.com/article/122-how-to-assign-digital-homework">Step 10</a>.) When you click on a student&#39;s name you can see their individual student results. The results you see are in reverse order of completion within one due date. Please tell your students to complete the&nbsp;tasks in the order that you assign them.</p>

<h2>How can I give students feedback about their digital homework?</h2>

<p>A feedback and rating tool for open-ended questions is available now. You can also leave a general comment after viewing the results of each scoreable task type. On the Student Dashboard, you&nbsp;students will see a pen icon if there is feedback and ratings to view or a speech bubble icon if there is a comment to view.</p>

<h2>How can I cancel an assignment or edit the due date?</h2>

<p>Click on Class Prep in your top navigation and choose&nbsp;My Classes. Choose the class or student you want to cancel or edit an assignment for. Click on the lesson you want to edit or cancel. Click on the due date&nbsp;link on any of the assignments in that lesson. This&nbsp;will bring you back to the edit assignment page.&nbsp;Edit the due date and/or time for any task you want to change, or cancel the lesson. <a href="https://help.ellii.com/article/122-how-to-assign-digital-homework">View Step 8&ndash;9 in this Help Doc</a>.</p>

<h2>How can I get back to the lesson itself when I&#39;m viewing results?</h2>

<p>Click on Results for any task. You will now see a link at the top of the page that says View Lesson. This will take you back to the digital tab&nbsp;on the lesson description page. If you are starting on the Digital tab and you click on a due date of a task, you will see the View Lesson link at the top of the Results table that will&nbsp;easily take you back.</p>

<h2>Can I remove students to make room for new students?</h2>

<p>Yes. Simply go to Class Prep in the top navigation bar when you are logged in at&nbsp;ellii.com. Choose My Classes. Choose a class that has students that you no longer need. From the Class List, you will see a list of students. Remove any students that are no longer in your class.</p>

<h2>Can I screenshare the PDFs during a live class?</h2>

<p>Yes. If a lesson has not yet been digitized&nbsp;or if there is a task or reference page that you prefer in the PDF version, you can simply open it on your own screen for your students to view.</p>

<h2>Can I assign the PDFs to my students?</h2>

<p>We recommend using the digital versions where available. Not&nbsp;all of our lessons and resources have been digitized and it may be necessary to email the Student PDF in this case. Our digital assignment feature currently only works with digital tasks.</p>

<h2>Can I edit the PDFs?</h2>

<p>No. We do not allow editing of the PDFs for copyright reasons.</p>

<h2>Do you collect any private information from my students?</h2>

<p>No. We don&#39;t collect or share any private information about your students. Also, it&nbsp;is not necessary for a student to use a real name or even an email address to receive ESL Library homework.</p>

<h2>Where can I learn about digital feature updates?</h2>

<p>We will post monthly <a href="https://ellii.com/blog/product-updates-for-march-2020">product updates</a>&nbsp;on our <a href="https://ellii.com/blog">blog</a>.</p>

<h2>Do you offer any help for students?</h2>

<p>Yes. We have an <a href="https://ellii.com/blog/student-faq">FAQ</a> for students who are new to ESL Library. We will also be working on some videos and a lesson. Here is some <a href="https://ellii.com/flashcard_genres/11/flashcard_categories/24">digital literacy vocabulary</a> for your students.</p>

<h1>Related</h1>

<ul class="resources">
	<li class="question"><a href="https://help.ellii.com/category/110-digital-tools">Digital Tools: Help Docs</a></li>
	<li class="question"><a href="https://help.ellii.com/category/119-digital-tools">Digital Tools: Help Videos</a></li>
	<li class="question"><a href="https://help.ellii.com/article/191-video-how-to-create-classes-and-invite-students">How-To Video: How to Create Classes and Invite Students</a></li>
	<li class="blog-post"><a href="https://ellii.com/blog/student-faq">FAQs for Students Using ESL Library</a></li>
	<li class="blog-post"><a href="https://ellii.com/blog/coronavirus-support">Standard Members Upgraded to Plus During COVID-19 Pandemic</a></li>
	<li class="blog-post"><a href="https://ellii.com/blog/teaching-online-webinars">Teaching Online with ESL Library (Webinars)</a></li>
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<h2>We will be regularly hosting free webinars to help you teach&nbsp;online.</h2>

<p>Hello, Teachers. Hello, Admins.</p>

<p>We know that for so many of you, your schools have suddenly closed. Many of you are now moving your programs online. For those who are only familiar with our printable content and have not used our digital tools before, we are holding a series of free webinars to help you get&nbsp;started.</p>

<p>If you did not hear our previous <a href="https://ellii.com/blog/teaching-with-digital-resources-during-the-covid-19-pandemic">announcement</a>, we have temporarily upgraded all our Standard plan users to have full access to the digital tools from the Plus plan. This means you can now broadcast interactive tasks on screen-sharing platforms such as Google Hangouts, and you can assign digital homework tasks to all of your students as&nbsp;well.</p>

<p>We want to help you make the best of these&nbsp;tools.</p>

<h2>How to Register</h2>

<p><a href="https://app.livestorm.co/esllibrary/">Visit our registration page here.</a> Select a date and time, and then enter your email address to reserve a spot. We are accepting 100 attendees per&nbsp;session.</p>

<h2>What to Do If All the Sessions Are&nbsp;Full</h2>

<p>If all the sessions are full or you are not able to attend the times that we have posted, you will be able to watch a recording of the sessions on our blog. You can also reach out to us to request a private webinar. We are able to do private webinars (for free) provided there are more than 10 teachers in attendance and a convenient time can be agreed&nbsp;upon.</p>

<h2>Frequently Asked Questions</h2>

<p>Do you have a question that didn&#39;t get answered at the webinar? Please check our <a href="https://ellii.com/blog/faq-teachers">FAQs about Teaching with ESL Library&#39;s Digital Tools</a>. You can also browse our <a href="https://help.ellii.com/">Help</a> section.</p>

<h1>Thinking of Leaving a Comment?</h1>

<p>This post about ESL Library Webinars has a record number of comments and questions about our digital tools! If you already left a comment or question, you&nbsp;may need to <strong>Load Replies</strong> for several pages to see a reply from an ESL Library staff member. We recommend searching for detailed answers to your questions in our&nbsp;<a href="https://ellii.com/blog/faq-teachers">Frequently Asked Questions</a> post. If you can&#39;t find the answer, you can also look in our <a href="https://help.ellii.com/">Help</a> section. Please&nbsp;<a href="https://ellii.com/contact">contact our customer care team</a>&nbsp;for more help.&nbsp;</p>


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Discover what's new or coming soon, including upcoming lessons and resources and product feature updates. 

Announcements

<h2>Temporary Upgrade to Our Plus Plan Features During the COVID‑19&nbsp;Pandemic</h2>

<p>Understanding that many schools have had to suddenly close and shift to online teaching, we are making our Plus plan features available to all of our Standard plan users at no additional cost&nbsp;during the COVID‑19 crisis. Our <strong>Broadcast</strong> tool will remain a permanent part of the Standard plan moving forward, and our <strong>Digital Homework </strong>tools and <strong>Results </strong>tools will be included in the Standard plan until at least June&nbsp;30th,&nbsp;2020.</p>

<h2>Video Tutorials to Help You Teach English During&nbsp;COVID‑19</h2>

<p>For those of you on our Standard plan who are not familiar with how to use the digital tools from the Plus plan, we&rsquo;ve posted these videos below. Please reach out if you need&nbsp;help.</p>

<h3>How to Broadcast Interactive&nbsp;Tasks</h3>

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<h3>How to Assign Digital&nbsp;Homework</h3>

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<h2>COVID‑19 Teaching&nbsp;Resources</h2>

<p>We have also been developing several resources specific to teaching about COVID‑19. All of the PDF versions of our COVID‑19 resources are temporarily free for all teachers whether you have a subscription plan or not. Simply sign up for a free account and download the PDFs. The digital lessons are currently available for Standard and Plus plan&nbsp;members.</p>

<h2>Related</h2>

<ul class="resources">
	<li class="lesson"><a href="https://ellii.com/courses/95/lessons/3247">Health Matters: The Coronavirus (Low Int)</a></li>
	<li class="lesson"><a href="https://ellii.com/courses/95/lessons/3244">Health Matters: The Coronavirus (Int &ndash; High Int)</a></li>
	<li class="lesson"><a href="https://www.ellii.com/courses/72/lessons/3238">Discussion Starters: Pandemics (Int)</a></li>
	<li class="lesson"><a href="https://ellii.com/courses/113/lessons/3249">Word Bank (Lit &ndash; Pre Beg): COVID‑19</a></li>
	<li class="resource"><a href="https://ellii.com/resource_categories/103/resources/3248">Grammar &amp; Usage: COVID‑19 Vocabulary (Low Int)</a></li>
	<li class="resource"><a href="https://ellii.com/resource_categories/103/resources/3246">Grammar &amp; Usage: COVID‑19 Vocabulary (Int &ndash; Adv)</a></li>
	<li class="flashcards"><a href="https://www.ellii.com/flashcard_genres/6/flashcard_categories/208">COVID‑19 Flashcard Set</a></li>
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