A short answer question uses a text box where you can type in a word (s) or words for an answer. Many questions of this type will ask for a student to fill in a blank or choose from a list of key words. The submission has to match exactly with the answer on record. However, however, these questions do have more than one correct answer. Things like spelling, leaving out spaces, or writing out the word number when the system expects a number will all result in a incorrect submission. These questions are not case sensitive, students do not have to worry about capitalization in their answer.
When creating a short answer question there are three parts, the Question Body, Explanation, and an Answer phrase.
The Question Body is the main content of the question, whatever question you want to ask and the information needed to answer it should go here.
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The Explanation appears after the solutions viewable date has passed on an assignment and the student has either correctly answered the question or exhausted all answer attempts
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Be careful when filling in the Question Body and Explanation sections. There is both a length and character limit, so adding large images, many images, or a lot of text will overflow the question. If you would like to write a longer question, consider a Numerical TeX or Algebraic Free Response type question. |
The Answer phrase is the input you want the student to use for the correct answer. Things like spelling, leaving out spaces, or writing out the word of a number when the system expects a number numeric value (i.e. "four" as opposed to "4") or vice versa will all result in a an incorrect submission. These However, these questions are not case sensitive, so students do not have to worry about capitalization in their answer.
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Once you have finished filling in the content of the question, you will have to save the draft by clicking the button at the bottom of the page. After you do so notice the preview panel on the right hand side is updated with the question prompt
After you review your question the option to Publish the question will appear at the top, a . A question is not usable on an assignment until it has been published. Publishing a question also prevents any edits.
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