Storyline is great for presentations and some ready-made quizzes. However, there seems to be a little problem with fill-in-the-blank questions. If the student inserts an *extra* blank into their answer, or a punctuation mark, the system says that they have made an error. Upper/lower case differences are dealt with by storyline but not extra spaces or punctuation.
Any suggestions on how to fix the problem? It seems unfair to penalize students for making a mistake, especially if the mistake is invisible.
My particular question is not in relation to spaces. A free-text answer I am looking for is an acronym and I am wondering how the field will interpret any punctuation used.
Example, are FBI and F.B.I. treated the same, or different?
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Hello Andrew,
This has been brought up before in previous threads. You may want to submit a feature request to have the text entry allow spaces or punctuation mistakes.
Thank you very much Emily.
Hi Emily,
The link you have provided doesn't link to any of the previous discussions.
Hi Neil,
Thank you for reaching out!
It looks like the post that Emile referred to is no longer available. I am happy to help with any questions you have!
In the meantime, I found another forum post that I hope will point you in the right direction: Remove/Ignore spaces at the end of text entry fields.
Thanks Vincent,
My particular question is not in relation to spaces. A free-text answer I am looking for is an acronym and I am wondering how the field will interpret any punctuation used.
Example, are FBI and F.B.I. treated the same, or different?
Thanks,
Neil
Hi Neil!
Good question! FBI and F.B.I. are not treated the same. For both to be scored as a correct response, you'd want to include both variations.
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