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Add a Fill-in-the-blank(s) Question

Online Documentation ANGEL 7.2 > Lessons Tab > Add a Fill-in-the-blank(s) Question

ANGEL Assessments provide a fill-in-the-blank(s) question type that ANGEL attempts to grade using a sounds-like algorithm to compare student responses to a list of instructor-provided acceptable answers.
To add a fill-in-the-blank(s) question, do the following:

Field Name

Description

Question Title

Provides the title of the question.

Points

Provides a point value for the question.

Question Text

Type the question text in the Question Text field. Use _n_ to insert one or more identified blanks into the question text (e.g. The quick brown _1_ jumped over the lazy _2_.).
Optionally enter question prompt text (i.e. extra text such as a hint or background information that displays with the question text) or footer text (displays following the last question choice). Click the HTML Editor hyperlink to insert images, apply formatting to the question text, etc.

Input boxes

Sets the width (in characters) for each fill in the blank input box. Select the ‘view advanced options’ checkbox and type a percentage in the appropriate Score % field to modify the percentage of total points earned for each input box.

Add new input boxes

Allows the editor to add additional input boxes to the question.

Enter answers for input box

Enter one or more allowed answers for each input box using any combination of the following options:

  • Equals – User response must exactly match the allowed answer to be counted as correct.
    • Select ‘Not case sensitive’ to allow any combination of upper case/lowercase characters in the response.
    • Select ‘Case sensitive’ to require the user response to be entered exactly as typed.
    • Select ‘Sounds like’ to accept any user response that phonetically “sounds like” the allowed answer.
  • Contains – User response must “contain” the allowed answer text as part of their response.
    • Select ‘Not case sensitive’ to allow any combination of upper case/lowercase characters in the response.
    • Select ‘Case sensitive’ to require the user response to be entered exactly as typed.
  • Pattern match – uses regular expression syntax to determine if an answer matches a pattern. Can be used to test items such as “Does the answer start with a “c”, end with a “t” and have an “a”, “o”, or “u” in the middle?” The regular expression for that would be ^c[aou]t$
  • Numeric (equals) – User response must exactly match the numeric allowed answer.
  • Numeric (with rounding) – User response must match the allowed answer when rounded to the specified number of decimal places or significant figures (number of characters from both sides of the decimal point).
  • Numeric (tolerance) – User response must match the allowed answer within the given tolerances. Example: The correct answer is 1.0 with a lower bound tolerance of .24 and an ipper bound tolerance of .15. Answers- .80, 1.0, and 1.10 would be correct. Answers -1.25 and 1.20 would be incorrect.

If the “percentage” checkbox is selected, the enetered tolerances are a percent of the correct answer. Example: The correct answer is 1.0 with a lower obund tolerance of 50% and an upper bound tolerance of 30%. Answers- .5, 1.0, 1.26 would be counted as correct. -.4 and 1.25 would be incorrect.

Add new answer options

Allows the editor to add additional allowed answers for the current input box.

Shared answers

Uses the same set of answer comparisons for all input boxes.

Feedback

Allows the editor to provide unique feedback based on whether the student provides a correct or incorrect answer.

Keywords

Allows the editor to associate new or existing keywords with the question. When used in conjunction with the ‘Add to question bank’ option below, the resulting question can be easily searched for and added to other assessments based on the keywords.

Difficulty

When selected, the course editor can assign a difficulty level to the question (very easy, easy, average, difficult and very difficult). When used in conjunction with the ‘Add to question bank’ option below, the resulting question can be easily searched for and added to other assessments based on the difficulty setting.

Add to question bank

Adds the current question to the Question Bank Manager for the course.
For more information regarding managing question bank questions, see the section of this document titled Question Bank Manager.

Update all instances of this question in this course

When selected, changes to the question will be to all instances of the question being used in the course.
This option will only appear if the question being edited has been copied or re-used at least once within the same course.

Automatically accept changes made to this question from the master source

When selected, changes made to the source question (located in a different course or repository) will be automatically applied to the copy of the question being used in this course.
This option will only appear if the question being edited has been copied from a different course or repository.

Add another

Select a question type from the dropdown menu and click the Add question button to save the current question and add another question without returning to the Add Question screen.