Topic outline

  • Sub-questions

    • An Embedded answers (Cloze) question consists of a text that contains one or more sub-questions.

      There are 13 different sub-question types:

      • Short answer
        • Case-insensitive: SHORTANSWER | SA | MW
        • Case-sensitive: SHORTANSWER_C | SAC | MWC
      • Numerical: NUMERICAL | NM
      • Multiple choice
        • Non-shuffled
          • Dropdown menu: MULTICHOICE | MC
          • Radio buttons
            • Vertical: MULTICHOICE_V | MCV
            • Horizontal: MULTICHOICE_H | MCH
        • Shuffled
          • Dropdown menu: MULTICHOICE_S | MCS
          • Radio buttons
            • Vertical: MULTICHOICE_VS | MCVS
            • Horizontal: MULTICHOICE_HS | MCHS
      • Multiple response
        • Non-shuffled
          • Checkboxes
            • Vertical: MULTIRESPONSE | MR
            • Horizontal: MULTIRESPONSE_H | MRH
        • Shuffled
          • Checkboxes
            • Vertical: MULTIRESPONSE_S | MRS
            • Horizontal: MULTIRESPONSE_HS | MRHS

    • Short answer, case insensitive
      SHORTANSWER | SA | MW

    • Example

    • In the above example, the correct answer is 'Moodle'. Since this short answer is case-insensitive, 'moodle', 'MOODLE', as well as 'MoOdLe', etc., are also considered correct answers.

      If the student enters 'Mudle' (or 'muddle', 'MUDDLE', etc.), which is simply misspelled, their answer is considered partially correct and they get 90% of the sub-question grade.

      The wildcard asterisk * preceding the feedback for an incorrect answer means that the student will see this feedback if they enter anything other than "Moodle" (or 'moodle', etc.) or "Mudle" (or 'mudle', etc.).

      Note that this catch-all incorrect wrong answer using the wildcard asterisk *, used to give a "wrong, try again" feedback, must be placed as the very last expected answer in your formula.

    • Short answer, case-sensitive
      SHORTANSWER_C | SAC | MWC

    • Example

    • In the above example, the correct answer is 'Moodle'. Since this short answer is case-sensitive, 'moodle' and 'MOODLE' are considered partially correct answers and incur a penalty of 10%. All other spellings such as 'MoOdLe', etc., are considered incorrect answers.

      Feedback is given for the partially correct answers 'moodle' and 'MOODLE'.

    • Numerical answer
      NUMERICAL | NM

    • Example

    • In the above example, the correct answer is the number 10.

      If the student answers exactly 10, they receive 100% of the sub-question grade; if they answer within the range 10 ± 0.5, they receive 80%, and if they answer within the range 10 ± 1, they receive 60%.

      Student response Sub-question mark
      10 100%
      10± 0.5 80%
      10 ± 1 60%

      Any other response results in no points.

    • The numerical answer sub-question accepts any real base-10 number. The usual formats are accepted, both in the teacher's formula and in the student's answer:

      10 Without decimal point
      10. With decimal point
      10.00 With decimals
      +10 With + sign
      + 10 With + sign and space
      0.1e2 or 0.1E2 Exponential notation
      (e2, E2 mean ×102)

      The precision is approximately 15 significant figures.

    • Multiple choice, dropdown menu, unshuffled
      MULTICHOICE | MC





    • References

      1. MoodleDocs - Embedded Answers (Cloze) question type