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Announcements

<h1>Introducing Individual Student Assignments</h1>

<p>Great news, teachers!</p>

<p>As of today, you can now select which individual students receive specific assignments within any class.&nbsp;</p>

<h3><strong>Here&#39;s how it works:</strong></h3>

<ul>
	<li>Click on a lesson, video, or flashcard set in your Prepping or Teaching lane within any of your classes</li>
	<li>A modal will open with your assignment preferences for that lesson&nbsp;</li>
	<li>Click the &quot;Students&quot; tab in the top navigation of the modal</li>
	<li>Switch the setting from &quot;All students&quot; to &quot;Some students&quot;</li>
	<li>Select the students you want to assign the lesson to&nbsp;and remember to hit &quot;Save&quot; inside the modal before closing it</li>
</ul>

<p>Only the selected students will see the assignment inside their class dashboard.</p>

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<p>We know that a lot of you have been asking for this feature for a while now. So thanks for your patience, and we hope it&#39;s a big help!</p>

<p>All the best,<br />
Ben :)</p>

<p>Founder, CEO at Ellii</p>


Introducing Individual Student Assignments

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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>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>

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<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>Thinking about June so soon? In addition to uploading digital versions of our lessons, we&rsquo;re hard at work on filling your requests for new content. Here&rsquo;s what we&rsquo;re working on.</p>

<h1>Lessons</h1>

<div class="whiteBox"><span class="label newLabel hangingLabel">New</span>

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<h2><a href="https://ellii.com/courses/72/lessons/3297">Cruise Ships</a></h2>

<p>In this upcoming low‑intermediate <a href="https://ellii.com/courses/72/lessons">Discussion Starters</a> lesson, students will learn about and discuss some of the negative aspects of cruising. We are also working on updates to our high‑intermediate Cruise Ships&nbsp;lesson.</p>
</div>

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<h2><a href="https://ellii.com/courses/118/lessons/3299">/e/</a></h2>

<p>We&rsquo;re getting a lot of requests for pronunciation lessons on the vowel sounds. In this upcoming lesson from <a href="https://ellii.com/courses/118/lessons">Phonics &amp; Pronunciation</a>, students will compare <span class="inlineBlock">/e/</span> <span class="inlineBlock">and /ɛ/.</span></p>
</div>

<div class="whiteBox"><span class="label newLabel hangingLabel">New</span>

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<h2><a href="https://ellii.com/courses/127/lessons/3300">Following a Recipe</a></h2>

<p>We&rsquo;re all cooking and baking more at home these days. Watch for a new low‑intermediate lesson coming up in our <a href="https://ellii.com/courses/127/lessons">Reading in English</a>&nbsp;section.</p>
</div>

<div class="whiteBox"><span class="label revisedLabel hangingLabel">Revised</span>

<p class="circleThumb"><a href="https://ellii.com/courses/72/lessons/1221"><img src="https://esllibrary.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/emails/monthly-newsletter/thumbs/72_New-Moon-Race.png" /></a></p>

<h2><a href="https://ellii.com/courses/72/lessons/1221">New Moon Race</a></h2>

<p>Did you hear that Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have been granted contracts to build a new spacecraft capable of landing humans on the moon? We&rsquo;re working on updates for this popular <a href="https://ellii.com/courses/72/lessons">Discussion Starters</a>&nbsp;lesson.</p>
</div>

<h1>Resources</h1>

<div class="whiteBox"><span class="label newLabel hangingLabel">New</span>

<p class="circleThumb"><a href="https://ellii.com/resource_categories/107/resources/3298"><img src="https://esllibrary.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/emails/monthly-newsletter/thumbs/107_Canada-Food-Guide.png" /></a></p>

<h2><a href="https://ellii.com/resource_categories/107/resources/3298">Canada Food Guide</a></h2>

<p>Are your students interested in learning about healthy food choices? We&rsquo;re working on a new flashcard set and visual learning resource about the updated Canada Food Guide. Keep an eye on our&nbsp;<a href="https://ellii.com/resource_categories/107/resources">Visual Learning</a>&nbsp;section.</p>
</div>

<h1>Flashcards</h1>

<p>We&rsquo;re so happy that you&rsquo;re loving our new <a href="https://ellii.com/blog/flashcard-player">Flashcard Player</a>. This month our illustrator is busy working on a new flashcard set to go with our <a href="https://ellii.com/courses/123/lessons">Super Simple Grammar</a> lesson on <a href="https://ellii.com/courses/123/lessons/2858">Singular &amp; Plural&nbsp;Nouns</a>!</p>


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<p>Do your students like to keep practicing their digital tasks until they get the correct answers? At the end of a&nbsp;digital task, students have the option to Try Again.*</p>

<p>Until recently, this was just a practice mode for your students. With our new feature, teachers can view detailed&nbsp;results of students&#39;&nbsp;multiple attempts, including the score, time spent, completion day/time, and full answers. Your students can also see the detailed results for each of their own attempts, which will help them track their own progress.</p>

<p>Here is a quick demo for you:</p>

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<p>*Note that our <a href="https://ellii.com/blog/open-ended-questions">Open-Ended Questions</a>&nbsp;task type now allows for multiple attempts. After students submit their written answers, they&nbsp;can view their results and ESL Library&#39;s Suggested Answers (if applicable). They see a message that tells them to&nbsp;wait for teacher feedback (however they can retry at any time as a new attempt). After you assess their first attempt, they receive a notification to view your feedback. We&#39;re working on a new feature that will allow students&nbsp;to edit their first attempt after receiving feedback and resubmit. At this time, you are only able to assess their first attempt.</p>


View Results for Multiple Attempts

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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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These posts are written for learners of English themselves. Find learning tips and ideas for learning English.

For Students

<h1>Let&#39;s Follow the Instructions</h1>

<p>It&#39;s time to join&nbsp;ESL Library as a student. Did your teacher send you an email invitation to join ESL Library?&nbsp;</p>

<ol>
	<li>Go to your email inbox.</li>
	<li>Find the invitation from your teacher to join ESL Library.</li>
	<li>Click the blue Join Now button.</li>
	<li>Choose the green box. Create an Account. (It&#39;s your first time using ESL Library.)&nbsp;</li>
	<li>Fill out the form. Start by adding&nbsp;your first name and last name.&nbsp;</li>
	<li>Add your email address.</li>
	<li>Add a password.</li>
	<li>Click Create an Account.</li>
	<li>Choose an avatar (a picture for your profile page).</li>
	<li>Click Start Learning.</li>
</ol>

<p>You are now on your Student Dashboard! This is where you will see your&nbsp;ESL Library assignments.</p>

<h3>Important!</h3>

<p>Next time you come to ESL Library, go to <a href="http://ellii.com/students">ellii.com/students</a> and go to the Log In form. Use the same email and password.</p>

<h1>Reminders</h1>

<ul>
	<li>You only use the email invitation one time.</li>
	<li>Next time, go to <a href="http://ellii.com/students">ellii.com/students</a> and&nbsp;Log In. Use the same email address and password each time you log in.&nbsp;</li>
</ul>

<h1>Questions</h1>

<ul>
	<li>Do you have a problem or&nbsp;question? Visit this post: <a href="https://ellii.com/blog/student-faq">FAQs for Students Using ESL Library</a>.&nbsp;</li>
	<li>Did you forget your password?&nbsp;Ask your teacher to reset it for you. Here is a <a href="https://help.ellii.com/article/193-how-to-reset-your-students-passwords">video for your teacher</a>&nbsp;on how to reset your password.</li>
</ul>


Sign Up as a Student with an Email Invitation

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Stay up-to-date with ELT trends and ideas with articles from experts and teachers in the field.

Articles

<p>As we have all learned over recent weeks, digital platforms and video conference rooms are&nbsp;tremendous resources for teachers and students who are separated by distance. If you are like me, you have also discovered how different, and even strange, teaching and learning can be in a virtual classroom. Inevitably, there are bumps along the way.&nbsp;Students might hesitate to speak up, wondering if their microphones work&mdash;or leave their microphones accidentally on mute. There may be feedback that makes it difficult to hear someone speak. A teacher might wonder about the overall level of class engagement&nbsp;as some students master the technology more quickly than others. And the list goes on...</p>

<p>In my virtual classes, I&#39;ve taken three steps to create an environment that works:</p>

<ol>
	<li>Offer simple tips around the use of video, the mute button, any chat functions, etc.</li>
	<li>Practice these tips myself and be willing to pause the class to help students with technical difficulties. I have my own technical difficulties too, which are great teaching moments&mdash;and may provide humor.</li>
	<li>Use virtual icebreakers.</li>
</ol>

<p>Of these steps, I&#39;ve found&nbsp;that the third is the most valuable. While the first two steps increase&nbsp;the <em>technical</em> comfort of students, virtual icebreakers are key to increasing their&nbsp;<em>social</em> comfort, which is essential for virtual settings. Furthermore, studies have shown that if participants don&#39;t speak in the first five minutes of a meeting, they probably won&#39;t speak in the meeting at all. (Here&#39;s an interesting article from<em> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/first-5-minutes-of-a-meeting-matter-the-most-2019-6">Business Insider</a></em> that explains the importance of early engagement.)&nbsp;</p>

<p>In an online ESL classroom, virtual&nbsp;icebreakers allow students to warm up to the technology as well as to greet each other and socialize. It also allows late-coming students to enter without missing out on&nbsp;the main lesson. And, in an ESL classroom, virtual icebreakers can also have an instructional component. Below are a few of my favorites.</p>

<h2>1. COVID Names</h2>

<p>This icebreaker is especailly valuable for sharing feelings during this difficult time. (To help your students with vocabulary, have them check out our previous post&nbsp;<a href="https://ellii.com/blog/feelings-coronavirus">Expressing Feelings During the Coronavirus Outbreak</a>.) This icebreaker&nbsp;also practices&nbsp;food words.</p>

<p>To make a COVID name, tell students to&nbsp;choose an adjective that describes how they&#39;re feeling and combine it with the last thing that they ate: <em>Hopeful Soup, Unhappy Strawberries, Bored Ham and Cheese, Anxious Oatmeal,</em> etc. Offer your own COVID name first.</p>

<p>In my classes, this has prompted laughter, but also honest sharing. For advanced classes, this icebreaker can be more challenging if students try not to repeat adjectives that have already been used, but rather use synonyms.</p>

<h2>2. Questions &amp; Answers</h2>

<p>This icebreaker is straightforward: Ask the class a non-sensitive&nbsp;personal question, such as &quot;What color is your kitchen?&quot; During COVID-19, I find that students engage with questions that evoke more relaxed times, such as &quot;What was your best vacation?&quot; or &quot;What is your favorite meal to share with friends?&quot;</p>

<p>As a more challenging instructional follow-up for more advanced classes, give students an answer and have them form questions, Jeopardy-style (e.g.,&nbsp;&quot;Midnight.&quot; / &quot;What time did you go to bed last night?&quot;).</p>

<h2>3. Trivia</h2>

<p>This icebreaker works best if your virtual meeting platform has a chat function that accompanies audio. A function that allows virtual hand-raising also works. Ask students a trivia question and have them offer answers by chat or by raising&nbsp;their hands.</p>

<p>To increase instructional value, use trivia from previous lessons or students&#39; location. For example:&nbsp;&quot;Which Canadian city has hosted the Summer Olympics?&quot; (Montreal) or &quot;Which&nbsp;US state contains the Grand Canyon?&quot; (Arizona)</p>

<p>If you wish, you can make it a contest and award points for correct answers. From an ice-breaking standpoint, though, remember the goal is to increase social interaction and comfort.</p>

<h2>4. Thumbs-Up or Thumbs-Down?</h2>

<p>For this icebreaker, students should choose a view that allows the entire class to be seen at once. They can also use a voting function if one is available in the virtual tool. Students take turns stating something they like/dislike or something they&#39;ve done. For example, &quot;I like shrimp.&quot; or &quot;I&#39;ve visited Washington, DC.&quot; Classmates indicate their similarity or difference with the person by showing a thumbs-up or a thumbs-down (or by using the voting function).</p>

<p>To personalize the activity even more, challenge students to offer an activity or accomplishment that they think is rare or unique about themselves, and see if anyone shares it. For example, &quot;I cleaned out my refrigerator last night.&quot; or &quot;I was born on February 29.&quot;</p>

<h2>5. Sharing</h2>

<p>This is my favorite icebreaker, especially for small classes, but it is really nothing more than having a conversation. Too often in this time of social distancing, we do not have opportunities for casual conversation.</p>

<p>Ask students about their families&nbsp;or what they have recently done. Share the same about yourself. Talk about what you miss during this time of social distancing or what you are looking forward to doing again when the situation passes. Share that you are glad to be in class today and express your appreciation for students&#39; participation. Compare notes about the best methods for buying groceries. Joke about wearing your pajamas.</p>

<p>There are countless ways to adapt these ideas. If you have a suggestion or have had success with a different icebreaker, please add it to&nbsp;Comments below&mdash;and, remember, we&#39;re all in this together.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>


5 Virtual Icebreakers

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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>

<div class="videoWrapper"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/SC1EMciAPJw" width="560"></iframe></div>

<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>

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<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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<h1>Let&#39;s Follow the Instructions&nbsp;</h1>

<p>It&#39;s time to join&nbsp;Ellii as a student. Follow the instructions.</p>

<ol>
	<li>Go to <a href="http://ellii.com/students">ellii.com/students</a>.</li>
	<li>In the top right corner, choose Create an Account.&nbsp;(It&#39;s your first time here.)</li>
	<li>Type the Invitation Code. (Your teacher gave you this.)</li>
	<li>Type your first name and last name.</li>
	<li>Add your email (If you don&#39;t have an email, type a username. Don&#39;t forget it.)</li>
	<li>Add a password. (Don&#39;t forget it.)</li>
	<li>Agree to the Terms of Use. (Check the box.)</li>
	<li>Click Create Student Account.</li>
	<li>Choose an avatar. (This is a picture for your profile page.)</li>
	<li>Click Start Learning.</li>
</ol>

<p>You are now on your Student Dashboard! This is where you will see your&nbsp;Ellii homework. Do you have assignments&nbsp;already? See <a href="https://ellii.com/blog/student-faq">Questions 5 and 6</a>&nbsp;from our post on&nbsp;<a href="https://ellii.com/blog/student-faq">FAQs for Students</a>.</p>

<h1>Reminders</h1>

<ul>
	<li>You only use the invitation code one time.</li>
	<li>Next time you come to <a href="http://ellii.com/students/">Ellii</a>&nbsp;remember to&nbsp;<strong>Log In</strong> instead. Go to ellii.com/students and Log In with your email (or username) and password.</li>
	<li>If you forget your password, ask your teacher for help.</li>
</ul>

<h1>Questions</h1>

<p>Do you have a problem or&nbsp;question? Visit this post: <a href="https://ellii.com/blog/student-faq">FAQs for Students Using Ellii</a>.&nbsp;</p>


Sign Up as a Student with a Class Code

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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>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>


How to Teach 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>

<h1>&nbsp;</h1>


How to Assign Grammar Tasks Online

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<h1>Let&#39;s Learn</h1>

<p>Preview the Queen&#39;s vocabulary:</p>

<ul>
	<li><strong>disruption:</strong> something that stops or pauses another thing</li>
	<li><strong>front&nbsp;line:</strong> first in line of defence* (traditionally a war term)</li>
	<li><strong>vulnerable:</strong> more likely to experience harm than others&nbsp;</li>
	<li><strong>spare:</strong> to save others from harm</li>
	<li><strong>tackle:</strong> to attack a problem and try to solve it</li>
	<li><strong>resolute:</strong> with great purpose</li>
	<li><strong>attribute:</strong> an important part of something</li>
	<li><strong>applaud:</strong> to clap for, congratulate</li>
	<li><strong>convert:</strong> to change into something new</li>
	<li><strong>endure:</strong> to live through something difficult</li>
</ul>

<h1>Let&#39;s Watch</h1>

<p>Write down any words or expressions you don&#39;t know. Look them up in a dictionary. Then watch again.</p>

<div class="videoWrapper"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bP_hNq6-0S8" width="560"></iframe></div>

<h1>Let&#39;s Review</h1>

<p>Answer the questions in the comments area. Can you use some of the Queen&#39;s vocabulary?&nbsp;</p>

<ol>
	<li>Who does the Queen thank?</li>
	<li>What happens in the broadcast at 2:03? Why does the Queen think this is important?</li>
	<li>According to the Queen, what symbol will remind us of this difficult time?</li>
	<li>What historic event does the Queen use to compare difficult times in the past and present?</li>
	<li>What message of hope does the Queen give at the end of the broadcast?</li>
</ol>

<p>*<strong>Note:</strong> British spelling is used in this post due to the subject matter.</p>


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