Custom cloze-texts now in beta! 🎉

Clozemaster
#1

Hi all! I’m excited to announce custom cloze-text creation is now in beta. :raised_hands:

At the moment, 11 languages support cloze-reading offering ~500 Wikipedia article intro cloze-texts for each language. Now you can add your own cloze-texts for each of these languages as well.

You should see ‘My Cloze-Texts’ under ‘Cloze-Reading’ with a button ‘New’ that will allow you to submit your text. Processing will take a few minutes depending on the size of your text.

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Texts need to be copy/pasted as plain text and there’s a 20,000 character limit. Cloze words are then automatically selected for each sentence, attempting to choose difficult words and avoiding proper nouns.

This feature is currently only available for Pro subscribers. We’re still working out some bugs while it’s in beta, but we wanted to make it available asap. Excited to hear what you think, what would make it more useful, and if there’s anything we can do to make it better.

Thanks for trying it out and thanks for playing as usual!

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#2

I totally forgot about the Wikipedia articles. I will go do some of those! Thanks for adding that feature a while back.
Was there an email blast about that? May you could resend or post to FB & Twitter again to remind users?
I will look for the custom cloze option as it is available.

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#3

Thank you, this is great.

I imported a list of own sentences and Clozemaster automatically selected the words for the gaps.

It seems, though, as if I cannot edit this list now, or delete entries, if I wanted or needed to, or add a list of more words to it (I can only manually add one new word at a time).

It would be really good to be able to do this in an imported text - like it is in the import in the “own collections” (where .csv files can be uploaded, and all entries can be edited at any point), as it would save a lot of time (and prevents mistakes to stay in the text…forever).

Eventually it could be fabulous to perhaps even have the option to merge own collections together, e.g. to integrate a small collection of new entries into a big collection of older sentences.

So, in summary:

  • I could not find an edit function for imported texts (whilst this is available in own collections)
  • So, Errors cannot be corrected once the entry is in the text, but had been overlooked.

Somewhat separate from this:

  • Merging two own collections together could be a really helpful feature

Thank you