Scan short answer or essay for keywords?

Jan 22, 2014

By A U

Hi there,

I'm wondering about options for evaluating short answer and essay questions. Can Storyline scan student answers for key words and provide feedback based upon what it finds? For example, I'd like a student response to contain the word "sustainability." I don't want to use the fill-in-the-blank template, because the student response will be a longer description than simply that key word.

In addition, can we program the scenario to accept wildcard answers? E.g., sustain* would accept sustainable, sustainability, or sustain as an appropriate response.

I'm wondering if this is something I could do with variables, but it seems like it might be complicated?

Anyone else use this type of functionality? Thanks for any advice!

9 Replies

Michael Hinze

over 10 years ago01/22/14 at 8:15 am (UTC)

This would require JavaScript. A while back, I had done an example that uses the match() method to check a Storyline text entry for keywords, like 'good', 'creative', 'awesome'; see here: http://dev.keypointlearn.com/xcl71_SL/TEBContains/ .

over 8 years ago12/04/15 at 9:15 pm (UTC)

Hi Michael, Thank you for this.

Can you please share how you did this? I have been trying to get it done but to no avail

Ashley Terwilliger-Pollard
Staff

over 8 years ago12/04/15 at 9:17 pm (UTC)

This thread is a bit older, so I'm not certain Michael is subscribed, but he's a regular here in the forums. You may want to message him directly using the "contact me" button on his profile.

over 8 years ago12/04/15 at 10:22 pm (UTC)

Thanks Ashley

Bhagvat Patel

almost 5 years ago05/10/19 at 2:53 pm (UTC)

Hi Michael, Thank you for this post some years ago!

I am also looking to implement something very similar. I would like to create a few short and essay question with the ability to scan the text for multiple key words.

Can you please share how you did this? I have been trying to get my head around this, but to no luck!

I'd appreciate any help or demo :)