These Help pages will lead you through the basic features of this site. Feel free to print out a copy of this page for future reference.

Here is a quick tutorial on how to use these quizzes. Some of the steps might be a little different depending on the quiz you are taking. Basically, the site is divided into long and short listening exercises.

I. Playing the Audio Files

Two types of sound files are used at this site: (1) .wav files developed by IBM and Microsoft that are one of the standards for audio on the Web, and (2) RealAudio files created by using encoders from RealNetworks. These two formats differ in size and the way they download and play. The .wav files are much larger and have to download completely before you hear them; the RealAudio files play as they download.

You will need an Audio Player to hear many of the sound files.

Steps	Examples
1. Click on the "Play Audio" button to hear the recording in most listening activities.
2.The RealPlayer installed on your computer will open automatically and play the audio file as it downloads (this may vary depending on the player you are using). You might have to wait a few moments before the sound plays.
3. For the Short Listening Quizzes, push the "Play" button to listen to the .wav sound file. It will take a few moments to download.

For additional help on listening to the audio files, see the Help with Audio Files page.

II. Answering the Questions:

There are several different ways to answer the questions depending on the quiz.

1. The newer Long Conversation Quizzes use a radio-button quiz format as seen below. Just click on the button for each question and then press the "Final Score" button:

Radio Button Scoring

2. Many of the Long Conversation and Video quizzes have the pop-up menu under the question, and you answer the question by opening the pop-up menu under the question, and choosing your answer at the bottom of the page:

Pop-up Menus

3. In many of the Short Conversation Quizzes, select your answer from the pop-up window at the right of the question.

At this point, you have two options: (a) check at your answer immediately from the "Answer" pop-up window, as seen here:

(b) or take all of the questions first and then push the "Final Score" at the end of the quiz:

You can also look at all of the answers at once by clicking on the "Show Answers" button.

Final Note: If the smaller feedback windows for "Final Score" or "Show Answers" (see above) mysteriously disappear and won't reappear when pressing the buttons, you might have simply clicked back on the original browser window instead of clicking on the "Back to quiz . . ." buttons in the feedback windows. The result with some browsers is the feedback window disappears behind the original. Just be sure to press on the buttons as shown, and you won't have any problems.

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