I provide my class with my solutions to the Exercitia Latina but despite my urging otherwise they regard the solutions as an end in themselves, to be done once. I think the exercises bear repetition and are useful revision.
I could email the exercises to them and they could print them out and fill in the words but this seems wasteful of paper and doesn’t encourage pupils to retry the exercises. An electronic solution seems like an obvious step.
I know that Hackett offer a complete on line package which includes " auto-correcting exercises from Exercitia Latina I," but I have not viewed it. I dont think it is quite what I am looking for. I dont want something that corrects the exercises. Also I am looking for a free solution.
I have today discovered www.educaplay.com which enables teachers to set up “word games” where the student has to insert a word to complete a sentence. Essentially this is the form that many of the Exercitia Latina “exercises” take. I managed to copy and paste a set of my answers into the template and it seems to work ok. (I need to remove the macrons as not all my students know how to insert them).
As an example take the sentence:
- Mēdus servus est; dominus [ … ] est Iūlius.
the student would type “eius” in the square bracket and press check and would get a green light or some sign that the answer was correct.
The main problem with the site is that of course the free version has advertising and requires the teacher to publish the exercises as a public resource. This latter point may involve me in copyright problems.
All this has led me to wonder how easy it would be to find a free programme which would enable me to do what “educaplay” does which is free and has no advertising and enables me to restrict the output.
I have zero real computing skill but can usually find my way round a set of instructions.
I would be grateful if those with more knowledge and skill could point me to a resource I could use. Many thanks