Clozemaster is a language learning app that helps to learn vocabulary in context by filling in the missing word for thousands of sentences.  There is some gamification built in, e.g. you can collect points for correct answered gaps. The app is available for over 50 languages. The main advantage of Clozemaster is that you get exposed to a lot of vocabulary and you get to see how words are used.

However, the gaps and sentences are all pretty random, so you can’t learn something systematically and therefore might feel you are getting nowhere. This is where Learnclick can help. At learnclick.com you can paste any sentences or texts and you get to decide where the gaps should be. You can also decide how challenging the gaps should be, e.g. fill-in-the-blank gaps can be pretty challenging (although you can create hints), but you also use the drag&drop mode or generated dropboxes where you have to select the right option.

So for learning more intentionally, you might for instance choose a text or sentences about a topic that interests you. For example if you are interested in learning computer vocabulary, you would create gaps of all the computer related words in the text. Or if you are learning a particular grammar topic, for example the past tense, you create gaps of all the verbs in the past tense. Clozemaster gets all it’s sentences from tatoeba.org which is a huge collection of sentences and translations. Why not make use of this resource for your Learnclick cloze tests.

Since Learnclick will save the students answers (in the Pro version), it’s loved by language teachers. But it can be used by students for self-study as well, as one can learn not only by doing the quizzes but also by creating them.

There are many different types of quizzes that can be used for assessment and practice by language teachers.

Cloze Tests / Gap Filling exercises can be used for testing how well a student understands the context. One must however be careful about multiple correct answers (it’s possible to set multiple correct answers using the # symbol in Learnclick). Cloze tests can be very effective for testing grammar, vocabulary, reading and listening comprehension.

Matching exercises are a good way for quickly testing vocabulary, for example “match the words with their antonym” or “match the words with their translation”.

Drag & Drop questions might be used if you don’t want the student to have to type the answers. Another usage is asking the students to put the jumbled words into the correct order to create a sentence. Learn how to create this type of question with Learnclick here: https://www.learnclick.com/help/dragdrop

Dropdown boxes: An alternative to drag & drop questions if you want to give students some options for them to choose from is the “dropdown” question type. You can either have the dropdown content be generated from all the blanks or create the options inside the dropdown yourself.

Open Questions are excellent if you want to test the students writing skills. The disadvantage is that it takes more time for correction, but Learnclick offers a nice online editor for annotating written answers: https://www.learnclick.com/help/essay

Finally, if several options can be correct, then use checkboxes!

Check out www.learnclick.com – the ideal quiz creator for language teachers.

Although Learnclick is primarily a tool for creating quizzes, it is possible to create surveys and it has been used for instance for linguistic research. With Learnclick you can create more sophisticated cloze test questions than with other survey tools. It’s possible to create drag & drop or dropdown questions. Of course you can also add multiple-choice and open-ended questions. See the bottom of this page to learn more about all the possible question options: https://www.learnclick.com/quiz/help

For a survey, you normally wouldn’t enter an answer, but simply make a gap which can be done with any character, e.g. using an underscore.

If you want the respondents to choose from an answer, e.g. in a dropdown or drag & drop type of question, you would enter answer options one can choose from. For “dropdown” questions, you mark the word and click on the button “Make Dropdown” where you enter additional answer options. For “Drag & Drop” questions, you would choose the question type “Drag & Drop”: https://www.learnclick.com/help/dragdrop

For surveys you would uncheck the option “Feedback” as there aren’t any “incorrect” answers:

If you know who your users are, you can create a “Class” with usernames and passwords so that the respondents can login and it guarantees that they only respond once.

There is also the option to record anonymous answers, although you can ask for the name. Change the option under “Visible To” to “everyone (record answers)”. Learn more about “sharing” options here: https://www.learnclick.com/help/sharestudents

If you need more than 50 submissions, feel free to contact us, we can change the number of possible submissions per quiz for you.

If you check “Ask for name”, by default it will ask “What’s your name?”. But you can override this question with a custom label, by clicking on the link “Global Quiz Settings”:

Under “Global Quiz Settings” you can also change a number of other button texts and labels.

Learn more about how you can view the responses here:
https://www.learnclick.com/statistics

It’s also possible to export the answers and import them into Excel.

Learnclick can be used in all kinds of scenarios, although the main usage is for language teaching.

We asked our clients to give us some feedback on how and why they use Learnclick. Here are some of the answers:

I use Learnclick primarily in an ESL classroom setting or in online materials that my students can access by themselves through our college’s Moodle platform.

Most of my quizzes are gap-fill ones with a few drag-n-drops too.

Gary L.

I have been using Learnclick for the past three years to teach Reading Comprehension to ESL and ELL students. The main focus is to help them pass an exam which is a requirement for enrollment to and graduation from undergraduate and graduate programs at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the biggest and most prestigious university in the country.

Basically, we have classroom sessions throughout the semester and I assign homework in Learnclick. I chose Learnclick as my to-go tool for two reasons: 1) it has a great set of testing options that allow me to closely simulate and monitor exam conditions; and 2) it’s been around for a while, with great reviews (I did my research and tried other services before settling down).

I’ve got to say that you have great support. When things weren’t working correctly and I contacted you, the reply was quick and honest.

Erik

I am using learnclick.com for something totally different: to collect data for my dissertation project! Participants first complete a background questionnaire on Qualtrics and then they are directed to learnclick.com to take the test I developed for them. The reason why I use learnclick.com is that it is the best online test platform for the test type I am using. My test type is C-test where second halves of each second word are deleted in a paragraph. There are not many platforms where I can embed this type of a test except for hot potatoes. However, I found hot potatoes very complicated. On the other hand, learnclick.com is very user-friendly. Also, my test is Turkish and learnclick.com allowed the participants to choose Turkish special characters when necessary while completing the gaps. Furthermore, contacting you whenever I had an issue while putting my test online was very useful.

Merve

Learnclick is also used for teaching history, science and even math. Some companies use Learnclick for testing their employees on internal procedures, etc.

Take a look at some of the quizzes some of our clients have created: https://www.learnclick.com/site/clients

Assigning homework should be to give students further practice and be purposeful. Don’t give homework just because that’s something that one “does”. In this article we are going to explore some ways how homework can be done online and why this might be useful as well as what possible downsides could be.

1) Let’s start with the obvious one: Having students submit their answers online will save you as a teacher lots of time with grading. On Learnclick.com you can easily create all kinds of question types, like gap-filling exercises, drag & drop quizzes as well as open-ended questions that can be annotated online. The answers will get automatically graded and you get a nice overview that let’s you quickly see with which questions students struggled.

2) Assigning quizzes online is also an advantage for the student as he gets instant feedback on which answers were right and wrong, provided you don’t disable this option. If he got the answer wrong, you can provide an explanation which will help the student understand the material better.

One of the disadvantages of allowing unlimited submissions is that it may encourage lazy habits, that is, the student re-submits the answer without thinking until he gets the correct answer. So you might consider limiting the number of attempts he gets.

3) A further advantage of assigning online homework is that you can link or embed multimedia elements like audio and video. Pictures can of course be in color whereas with paper homework you might just print them out in black and white.

A disadvantage of online homework that could be considered is that students might easily be distracted by other things when working on their computer. For example they might feel the urge to check their friends Facebook page or watch a video. However, most students will anyways use the internet for looking up explanations or asking their friends for help. This is something that a teacher can’t control outside of the classroom.

4) There are less books to carry as the student can look up material online. He won’t be able to forget his books at school or at home. Of course students can bring up the excuse that internet didn’t work at home, but that excuse won’t work every time…

Make sure that students know how to use the various online tools. Demonstrate it to them during class time and if possible give them some time to practice before they go home.