Title: The Authoring Suite Publisher: Wida Software Description: An easy-to-use authoring program specially written for language teachers that enables them to create language activities on the computer including multimedia features.
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Prices: Authoring Suite individual modules:
(i.e. Storyboard, Gapmaster)
5-users £75
25-users £150Authoring Suite bundled version (all modules)
5-users £475
25-users £915EU and UK add 17.5% VAT
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Storyboard: the classic total text reconstruction program
Testmaster students type in full answers to questions where alternative permutations of correct answers are allowed for
Gapmaster: Teachers remove items from longer (or shorter) texts and the students have to fill the gaps
Matchmaster: The program jumbles up matching pairs of words or sentences and the students have to match them up
Choicemaster: A multiple choice creation program where each distractor can have its own comment
Vocab: Six different language games are generated by the computer from lists of keywords, definitions and example sentences entered by the teacher
Pinpoint: Match a short text up with its correct title. Includes a text jumbler
