Fill gaps in text

Background

Fill gaps in text is typically used when the participants have to add missing words to a text.

Example:

Procedure

Proceed as follows to create/edit a Fill gaps in text:

1. Go to Authoring > Items. 
2. Go to the folder in which you want to add your item. 
3. Click on to add an item. 
4. Select Fill gaps in text.
   Result: The content pane of the item is opened.
5. Enter the item name in the breadcrumb at the top.
6. Select + Add block to add a content block and fill in the instruction.
7. Enter the text with gaps in the answer block. To add a text gap, click on the desired location for the gap and select + Gap.
8. Select the gap and enter the correct answer(s) in the Gap tab in the Properties pane. See Answer specific options below. 
9. Click Preview to try out your item.

Answer-specific options

Select a gap in the interaction block to fill in the answer-specific options for this gap. You can:

• Add wrong answer(s).
  
• Indicate whether an empty answer is correct (by default it is wrong). You can also override the default score for correct answers only for this empty answer, and add answer-specific feedback.
  
• Input mask: Make sure the candidate can only type a restricted sort of characters.
  

  Tip: for more information on input masks, read this article.

• Fixed characters: Determine if characters can already be visible in the gap by selecting the number of fixed characters.
• Pre-filled text: Determine if the gap should already contain text by adding content in the pre-filled text.
• Correction options: Determine if the automatic correction needs to take into account several extras:
  • Punctuation (.,?!...)
  • Diacritics (à, ç, ù, ü, û, è,...)
  • Capital letters
  • Whitespaces