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 * More intelligent didactic information can make interaction scenarios, feedback, diagnosis and remediation more powerful.
 * The generation of multiple choice distractors can be made more intelligent.
-* Closefox activities can be linked to more Web 2.0 tools, social networks and electronic learning environments such as Moodle, Blackboard or Sakai.
+* CloseFox activities can be linked to more Web 2.0 tools, social networks and electronic learning environments such as Moodle, Blackboard or Sakai.
 == Current status and further work ==
+In its current status ClozeFox provides the following features:
+* It can suggest web pages in English and Dutch, at simple or advanced levels. It does this by retrieving data from a [http://delicious.com/YAFZ/clozefox delicious account]. Thus it is possible to add new pages to the suggestion system by adding new URLs to that delicious account.
+* It can create a random or preposition test on the given page.
+* It can calculate the score and provide feedback for the correct and wrong answers.
+* It stores the information about previous test scores permanently. It can show these along with statistics and graphs on the slidebar.
+* It can send the current test's score to the user's Twitter account. Others can track this in real-time and can simply click on the page to do the same test.
+* It can  copy the current test configuration. Thus, a teacher can simply compose an e-mail and press Control + v in order to share the test with teachers or colleagues. When that web address is sent ClozeFox automatically renders the web page as a cloze test without needing any input from the user. This makes sharing and running tests very easy.
-== Operation and Implementation Details ==
+Of course in its current form the ClozeFox is far from perfect and needs further work:
-ClozeFox first checks the page on the amount of usable and useful text, text structure and language ID based on page info or on trigrammes. It then makes a frequency list of the words in the text.
+* Better 'main text' detection routines in order to be able to handle various web pages.
+* More test types (for verbs, nouns, etc.).
-The ClozeFox generator hides words on the basis of a routine with scalable intelligence: as a simple random routine would not be interesting from a linguistic-didactic point of view, ClozeFox will select gaps according to frequency level, word category, and later on semantic field, contrastive-linguistic aspect in order to turn the exercise into a rich learning experience.
+* More control on the parameters of test (whole word, partial word, frequency of words to change).
+* More intelligent control about distractors.
-ClozeFox generates fill-in exercises (for complete words or word-parts on morphological level such as word endings) and multiple-choice exercises (with other words in the text as generated distractors).
+* A back-end web service so that much more sophisticated natural language processing routines can be handled for texts in various languages.
+* User adaptability features: Again a back-end web service can store user's performance data and provide personalized suggestions and tests by performing statistical analysis of users, groups, etc.
-The ClozeFox options menu (with 'remembered' options) will include:
-* Number of gaps
-* Min/max length of gap
-* Per word category: nouns, prepositions, verbs …
-* Exercise type: written (with option whole word / partial word) and multiple choice (with option number of distractors)
-* Time limitation
-* Send exercise to ... (completed to show to parents/teachers what you have done as a learner; or 'empty' to send it as a teacher to your student or as a students to your co-students)
-ClozeFox as an application is highly scalable on the following levels:
-* The complexity of the routine for selecting gaps.
-* The intuitive intelligence of the system to adapt to the user based on learner behavior, performance and errors.
-* The possibility to add a refined morphological analyzer and parser later on.
-* The possibility to ask for pronunciation (through sound synthesis) or translation of the word to fill in or any word in context.
-* Turn ClozeFox into a real collaborative Web 2.0 social exercise generator:
-** Students will become able to exchange self-made exercises, store them in social collaborative repositories, teachers can ask them to do so and monitor progress.
-** Language teachers worldwide are expected to encourage to use Mozilla Firefox in order to enrich their own learning environment with a powerful tool for autonomous and/or collaborative learning.
-ClozeFox can be seen as a first product in a series of tools for enhancing the (language) learning experience.
 == Mockups ==