Parapal proofread
Parapal cloze
Parapal sentence order
Parapal text order
Parapal essay
Parapal vocab
Parapal multiple choice
Parapal extra words

These exercises were originally designed between 2001 and 2002 and have been in development since then. They have been used with students at the Hawthorn English Language Centre, the Victoria University of Technology, Churchill House and at the University of Hertfordshire.
As used by Churchill House, the largest single site school in the UK. More users

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The authoring suite is free for non-profit, publicly available web sites. It costs £25 for public schools and £40 for small private language schools (for use on a single URL). For larger organisations price depends on the number of students, teachers and whether the suite is used on more than one URL.

The redesigned Version 1.1 is now available for non-profit, publicly available websites. If users create exercises with Version 1, they can contact me with the URL of their exercises, and I will send them the updated players.

Example Exercises

1) Cloze V1 (Cloze V1.1) This simple cloze exercise allows authors to remove particular words from a text (eg. prepositions, articles)

2) Proofread. This allows authors to change single words into any other group of characters without spaces. (eg: change beautiful to ________ or (beauty) or beaty or b-------l et cetera). It also allows authors to make an exercise with extra words that students need to identify.
a) Proofread (Proofread V1.1)
b) Word forms (Word forms V1.1)
c) Extra words (Extra words V1.1)

3) Multiple choice. Unlike most multiple choice exercises this allows authors to select any part of a text as a trigger for multiple choice options. The selected answer replaces the text that provides the trigger. This is useful for creating proofreading exercises.
a) Vocab (Vocab V1.1) Can only be used for single word (or phrasal verb) answers. Gives instant feedback.
b) Traditional (Traditional V1.1) Only gives feedback when the student clicks "Check"
c) In text (In text V1.1) Gives feedback as above.
d) With mp3 (not functional in the trial download)

4) Arrange the sentences. This is a traditional rearrange the cut up text exercise. It accepts one primary answer and two secondary answers. It also provides two forms of feedback, easy and difficult. It is limited to 10 sentence length sections.
a) No distractors (No distractors V1.1) (Every sentence is necessary)
b) With distractors (With distractors V1.1) (Some items are inappropriate) The exercise allows you to add incorrect sentences that students have to recognise as not being part of the text, and therefore leave them out of the final answer.

5) Arrange the paragraphs. (Arrange the paragraphs V1.1) This exercise is similar to the one above. However, there is no limit to the length of the text or the number of sections. It only allows a single answer.

6) Arrange the words into sentences. (Arrange the words into sentences V1.1) This exercise automatically cuts up sentences into individual words and jumbles them up. Each sentence only has a single answer though, so some sentences will not work well.

7) Drag and drop vocab and difficult vocab. Drag the text labels onto the correct numbered box (easy), or type the answer into a text field (difficult). A link on the difficult exercise allows the student to open exactly the same questions and answers in the easier drag and drop exercise if they have any problems.
Vocab (Drag and Drop V1.1) (Difficult vocab V1.1)

8) Drag and drop. As above, but with short phrases instead of single words.
Phrases (Phrases V1.1)