Text Entry Interaction
With the task type text entry interaction, you can create a text containing any number of gaps. The learner must fill in the gaps with the correct answers.
You can specify both text and numerical values as a solution. To limit the learner's input to numerical values, you can use the task type Numerical input. With the task type Calculation task, you can create parameterised calculation tasks. In this case, a calculation rule is defined as the solution.
In a text entry interaction, exactly one solution is defined for each gap. In addition, alternative solutions and fault tolerances can be defined.
Tab Question/Answer
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Text entry | Enter your question and text in the input field. You have two options to add gaps:
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Edit gap | You can edit a gap by clicking on the gap icon |
in the text entry interaction. An additional area for editing the gap opens below the text entry interaction field. The editing area also opens when you create a new gap.
Function | Description |
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Solution | Define the correct solution for the gap. In the solution view and in the results view, this value is shown to the learner as a hint (optional).
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Alternatives | In this area, you can specify alternative solution options. Separate multiple options by a comma or line break. If the answer contains a comma, a backslash needs to be inserted before the comma. (Example: "red\, green\, blue") Alternative solutions are also assessed as correct, and the learner will receive the total score for this gap. If an alternative solution is entered, the learner will be displayed the correct solution in the form of a hint (optional).
If the learner has entered an incorrect solution, which corresponds more closely to an alternative than to the correct solution, the alternative will be shown to the learner as a hint (optional).
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Score | Assign the points the learner receives when they have entered a correct solution. The total score of the task is derived from the sum of scores contained in the text entry interaction. Currently, it is not possible to assign partial points to individual gaps, e.g. if the learner has "only" entered an alternative solution. |
Case sensitive | Enable this option to specify whether the correct solution is case sensitive and to inform the learner to be aware of the upper- and lower-case characters within their answers. The setting applies to the entire solution. If the option "case sensitive" is disabled, the entry "fichtelBerg" instead of "Fichtelberg" will be considered correct.
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Tolerance | The fault tolerance indicates how many characters or letters, in relation to the correct solution or an alternative solution, may be incorrect. A solution containing any number of errors within the fault tolerance is still assessed as correct, and the learner will receive the total score for the gap. Each incorrect and missing character or letter is evaluated as an error. This also applies to typos. If a fault tolerance of 1 is defined for the answer "Pythagoras", the following applies:
For tasks of the type Extended text interaction, the learner is provided with a special solution view (optional) in which errors are marked in colour. A manual control of results is particularly recommended for all open task formats (including the task types text entry interaction and extended text interaction), regardless of the availability of automatic assessment. The ONYX Testsuite offers simple results views, which provide a quick overview of all submitted answers and their assessment.
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Display input field as line option
Input fields for text entry interactions are generally displayed as input boxes. However, in questions in which, for example, parts of words are to be completed, a line is more common as a representation for the part to be completed.
Activate the Display input field as line checkbox to display a line instead of the input box in the test procedure, evaluation and PDF formats. Thus, a display without spacing to the text and without any line breaks is possible.
This setting is available for all questions of the type “text entry interaction” (Text Entry Interaction, Numerical Input Interaction, Calculation Interaction, Formula Comparison, Regular Expression). If you enable it in a question, it applies to all gaps in it.