Gap filling exercises

Gap with a empty text box

(don't check the option "For each gap, use a list of possible items instead of a text box")

In order to indicate that a word is omitted, it is necessary to enclose between square braket (they are [ and ]). Naturally, it is possible to omit an entire phrase more rather than single word, increasing the difficult for the student to answer exactly.

As an example:

On 4 December 1996 leaves from Cape Canaveral (in the [United States]) the space mission towards [Mars], the red planet. It comes launch the probe Mars [Pathfinder] with the space robot Sojourner Rover. The exploration of the planet was begun twenty years ago with the space probes Viking 1 and 2.

When you create the HTML quiz, you get:

The text contains three omitted words: United States, Mars and Pathfinder. Since they have been enclosed between square parenthesis, in the quiz they will omitted and a empty text box will appear where the student will have to complete.

There is not distinction between capital and not capital letters. As an example, if the student writes "mars" or "MARS" in place of "Mars", the answer will be considered equally valid.

Moreover, it is possible to specify more than one correct word for every word omitted from the text. This is used to obtain a less rigid automatic correction. In fact, see the previous example. It is clearly that if the student answers "USA" in place of "United States" (the same for "U.S" or "States"), his answer is right but the quiz considers it an error. For this purpose, it is possible to specify between square parenthesis all the correct word, separated from one comma. In this way the text becomes:

On 4 December 1996 leaves from Cape Canaveral (in [United States, USA, U.S, States]) the space mission towards [Mars]...

Gap with a drop-down list

(check the option "For each gap, use a list of possible items instead of a text box")

The option "For each gap, use a list of possible items instead of a text box" allows to create a quiz where each gap has a drop-down list of possible items instead of an empty text box. In this case, the student must choose one item from a finite set of items (it is more simple for the student to answer a question).

In fact, only one item is the correct item, the (n-1) items are always wrong.

Syntax:

In order to indicate that a word is omitted, it is necessary to enclose between square braket (they are [ and ]). Inside square braket, write a list of items (phrases or word) separated by a comma (,).

The first item is always the right answer. Obviously, in the HTML quiz, the items will be placed in the list in a random order (otherwise the student select always the first item!).

For example:

The biggest planet of Solar System is [Jupiter,Saturn,Earth,Mercury]

When you create the HTML quiz, you get (for example):

"Jupiter" is the correct item, in fact it is the first item in the quiz editor, although "Jupiter" is not in the first.