Create Questions with the Text Editor

Multiple choice (MC), Multiple answer (MA), and Matching (MT) questions allow the Option:Inline property, meaning that placeholders for clickable answers or drag targets can be inserted into a sentence for learners to interact with. In the Text editor, you create these inline placeholders by entering four dashes inside brackets, [----], where you want them.

The following example has them placed as clickable words in a Multiple answer question:

Type: MA
Options: Inline, MaintainOrder
7) Select the transitive verbs. 
   
   Liv [----]  out of the car. 
   Ian [----]  over four hundred articles on the subject. 
   Christopher [----]  really well. 
   Martin [----]  about a lot of things. 
   Kate [----]  great gifts. 
a. fell
*b. has written
c. sings
*d. wondered
*e. gave. 

You can create customized feedback conditions using additional variables and operators.

Boolean conditions determine which when the end-user reviews an answered question. An empty or omitted condition is logically equivalent to a true one. The condition uses the student answers and the attempt.

You can use the following  variables and the associated operators in the Condition:

These operators can be used with some of the variables above:

Format these variables and operators in the same way you format the feedback above: Start a new line immediately following the question prompt, enter the @ sign, and then bracket them:

• @[answercorrect1=false ] Take a look at the first section of Unit 3.
• @[score<=0.5 ] Take some time to review the activities in Unit 3. 

You can even group multiple sets of conditions to be applied to a question. To do that, simply create a group name and include it at the beginning of the brackets followed by a colon. Then add the conditions. A group name must start with a letter and can use only letters, numbers, and the underscore character.

• @[LowScores: answercorrect1=false ] Take a look at the first section of Unit 3.
• @[LowScores: score<=0.5 ] Take some time to review the activities in Unit 3. 

Essay questions ask students to answer with an essay. You can provide an example answer and feedback. Because Practice questions activities are meant to give students immediate feedback to respond to, essay questions are not available in them.

• Type: E
• You can specify the Height of the field displayed.
• You can specify a Rubric file to give the learner guidance.
• You can provide an example answer to aid the grader (entered after a. in this example).

Type: E
Height: 400
Rubric: Rubric1.xml
1) Retell the story of Tuffi the elephant.
a. On 21 July 1950 the circus director Franz Althoff had Tuffi, then 4 years old, take the Schwebebahn in Wuppertal, as a marketing gag. The elephant apparently did not enjoy the ride, trumpeted wildly and ran through the wagon, broke through a window and fell some 12 meters down into the Wupper river, suffering only minor injuries. A panic had broken out in the wagon and some passengers were injured.

Fill in the Blank questions ask students to provide a word or phrase to accurately complete a statement. You can provide multiple correct answers to account for possible variations and feedback.

• Type: F
• Create the blanks by adding 3 or more underscore characters ___. Use about as many characters as you expect the longest answer to be.
• List the answers below (a. Stockholm). By default, the answers match the order of the blanks and are case-sensitive (keep reading to learn how to override this).

Type: F
1) The capital of Sweden, __________, is also known as Venice of the North.
a. Stockholm

• You can specify a sub-type for the question to change how it is scored. This example uses the Match subtype to allow for ordering variations in the answer.

Type: F, Match
1) Factor out the expression `(a+b)^2` = ____________
a. a^2+2ab+b^2

• Add the sub-type IgnoreCase if you don't want the answers to be case-sensitive.
• Questions can contain multiple blanks, and a blank may have multiple correct answers. This example has two correct answers for blank a., Helsingfors and Helsinki.
• By default, each blank is worth the same number of points, but you can set them up to Score differently. This example has a total Score: 10. It is set up to award:
  • [.6] points (.6 * 10=6) for answering blank a. correctly with the Swedish spelling, Helsingfors; OR [.5] points (.5 * 10=5) for answering blank a. correctly with the English spelling, Helsinki.
  • [.4] points (.4 * 10=4) for answering blank  b. correctly.

Type: F, IgnoreCase
Score: 10
Options: Multiple
1) ____________ is the capital of Finland, and ___________ is the capital of Sweden.
[.6]a. Helsingfors
[.5]   Helsinki
[.4]b. Stockholm

Matching questions ask students to match items correctly.

• Type: MT
• By default, Pearson Connexus lists the items across from each other, and learners use a dropdown box next to the items on the left where they can choose the matches from the right.
• You can include additional distractors by leaving the left side empty (see the = moo example).

Type: MT
1) Match the animals with their sounds.
a. dog = woof
b. cat = meow
c. bird = chirp
d. = moo

• Use the Options: DragAndDrop to ask learners to click and drag words to the targets they match instead of using the dropdown box.
• Use the Options: RemoveUsedChoices with DragAndDrop to eliminate draggable words as the learner matches them.
• Use the Options: Graphic with DragAndDrop to give learners draggable images they can match to targets.

Type: MT
Options: DragAndDrop, RemoveUsedChoices, Graphic
Image: Assets/18-0438_MLK_timeline_4.png
Coords: (3.66,18.57,40.99,22.89) (55.33,11.18,43.04,28.29) (3.31,52.94,41.18,14.83) (56.21,59.88,41.33,14.37) (55.71,77.95,41.5,19.99) (3.26,69.21,41.33,25.96)
1) ​Match the events to the date they occurred. 
a. test = [Media:june25_1941_FDR.jpg, "", "", width:200px;]   
b. * = [Media:June10_1963_JFK.jpg, "", "", width:200px;]  
c. * = [Media:july_2_1964_johnson.jpg, "", "", width:200px;]  
d. * = [Media:sept_24_1965_johnson_.jpg, "", "", width:200px;]
e. * = [Media:dec_15_1967_johnson_.jpg, "", "", width:200px;]  
f. * = [Media:april_4_1964_mlk.jpg, "", "", width:200px;]

• You can use the Options: DragAndDrop, Inline, MaintainOrder to display the answers as draggable items to inline targets box.
• You can create the inline targets boxes inside the body of the question by typing [----]. In that mode, the left side of the match is the order of the answer.

Type: MT
Options: DragAndDrop, Inline, MaintainOrder
1) Indicate the correct animal sounds:
The dog [----] chased the cat [----] that chased the bird [----].
a. 1 = woof
b. 3 = chirp
c. 2 = meow
d. = moo

Multiple Answer questions ask students to identify all correct answers from a list of possible answers.

• Type: MA
• Specify the correct choices by placing an asterisk * in front them.
• This example uses  Label a to display the choices as a., b., c., etc (review the Label property in the table, above).
• Multiple answer questions are allowed to have a Partial score.

Type: MA
Score: Partial
Label: a
1) What are the principle outcomes from the Treaty of Westphalia?
a. Germany became a Roman Catholic country
b. Sweden lost the territory of Norway
*c. The concept of sovereign states, became central to international law
*d. [HTML]The principle of <em>cuius regio, eius religio</em>[/HTML]

• Use the Options: Inline to list the answers as clickable words that appear after the question.

Type: MA
Options: Inline
1) Which are examples of cephalopods. [----] [----] 
*a. Octopus
*b. Squid
*c. Cuttlefish
d. Crab

• Use the Options: Graphic to create a graphic hot spot question, where learners answer by clicking hot spots on a graphic.

Type: MA
Options: Graphic
Image: Assets/The-Ocean-July-2020-RR-2-scaled.png
Coords: (73.89,4.5,24.51,13.67) (4.25,45.89,23.47,11.7) circle(61.59,54.79,14.35,17.43) circle(1.92,76.75,28.77,21.25) rect(71.93,74.66,25.28,17.53) (0,35,24,7)
BorderColor: #FFFFFF
BorderWidth: 3
BorderStyle: dotted
SelectedColor: #00FF36
SelectedWidth: 5
1) Select all of the sea creatures that create their own light source.
a. Common dolphin
*b. Lantern shark
c. Comb jelly
*d. Angler fish
e. Vampire squid

Multiple Choice questions ask students to identify the single correct answer from a list of possible answers. They are the most commonly used question types.

• Type: MC
• Use an * to indicate the correct answer.
• Label: defines how the answer options are listed (with numbers, lowercase letters, uppercase letters, or Roman numerals). This example uses lowercase letters, a ( (review the Label property in the table, above).
• The x. in front of the last choice indicates that the listed choice should always appear in that position. You can fix all choices in the listed positions by using the Options: MaintainOrder.

Type: MC
Label: a
1) What is the capital of Sweden?
*a. Stockholm
b. Oslo
c. Helsinki
x. None of the above

• Create choice-specific feedback by using @ on the row below the choice.
• This example displays the choices as a dropdown box by using the Options: Inline option and placing the box inside the question body with [----].

Type: MC
Options: Inline
1) The capital of Sweden is [----].
*a. Stockholm
@ That's correct.
b. Oslo
@ Oslo is the capital of Norway.
c. Helsinki
@ Helsinki is the capital of Finland.
x. None of the above

Ordering questions ask students to put items in the correct order.

• To define the correct position of each answer in an ordering question, enter the position number and an underscore in front of the answer label (e.g., 1_, 2_, 3_,)

Type: O
Options: MaintainOrder
1) Sort these US Presidents from earliest to latest
5_a. Barack Obama
3_b. Bill Clinton
4_c. George W. Bush
2_d. George H. W. Bush
1_e. Ronald Reagan

• Use the Options: DragAndDrop to create a question where learners can drag text and/or media into the correct order, vertically.
• Use the Options: Horizontal to orient the options horizontally.

Type: O
Options: DragAndDrop, Horizontal
Label: a
3) Put these US presidents in order of their presidency's (oldest at the top).
a. [Media:Screen Shot 2021-11-11 at 2.36.13 PM.png, "", "", width:100px;]
   
b. [Media:Screen Shot 2021-11-11 at 2.36.31 PM.png, "", "", width:100px;]
   
c. [Media:Screen Shot 2021-11-11 at 2.36.24 PM.png, "", "", width:100px;]
   
d. [Media:Screen Shot 2021-11-11 at 2.36.47 PM.png, "", "", width:100px;]
   
[a, b, c, d]

Passage questions are not an interactive question template. You can use this to provide a passage of text and ask students to refer to it in order to answer other questions in the assessment or homework activity. You can provide a single passage for the activity and/or assign a passage to specific questions.

They do not have a point value, interaction, answer, or feedback.

• Use the Options: Side to display the passage to the side of the question.
• Use the Options: Single to display one associated question at a time.

Type: P
Options: Side, Single
1). In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the Army. Having completed my studies there, I was duly attached to the Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers as assistant surgeon. The regiment was stationed in India at the time, and before I could join it, the second Afghan war had broken out. On landing at Bombay, I learned that my corps had advanced through the passes, and was already deep in the enemy's country. I followed, however, with many other officers who were in the same situation as myself, and succeeded in reaching Candahar in safety, where I found my regiment, and at once entered upon my new duties...

Create questions that don’t fit any of the predefined types. These can range in complexity from simple, formatting overrides of standard questions to complete, custom-question rendering and grading systems hosted on external servers.

• Type: C
• Use variables (Var) and add question data as you want.

Type: C
Custom: http://mywebserver/chess/question
Var: row = 0..7
Var: col = 0..7
Var: figure = queen,rook,bishop,knight
1) Indicate all valid locations that this piece can move to.
a. {Color1: Black, Color2: Red }