Short answer

Short answer

Multiple examples of correct answers can be specified for a single question. You can specify multiple correct answers for a single question, with options such as "Ignore upper and lower case letters", "Ignore number of spaces" and "Ignore leading and trailing spaces".

Sample quiz

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How to create a quiz
Short answer question can be created in "text format" or "table format" way.
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The first line, starting with #, is the setting for the entire quiz. The question data should be entered in blank lines. The first line of each block is the question text, the second line is a fixed "fill-in:", and the third and subsequent lines are the correct answer examples.
#messages_intro:description_questions #shuffle_questions:false #mode:master #movable:true 1)The four major industrial areas in Japan are "Hanshin, Kitakyushu, and Chukyo", where is the other one? fill-in: Keihin Keihin Keihin Industrial Zone 2)Answer the name of the prefecture with the smallest area in Kanji. fill-in: (e.g., Kagawa, Kagawa Prefecture, Kagawa Prefecture) Kagawa Prefecture Kagawa 3)Otsu city is the capital of which prefecture? Answer the name of the prefecture in kanji. fill-in: (fill in the blanks) Shiga Prefecture Shiga 4)What is the name of the cartoon animation work in which the following characters appear? Answer with the official name: "Daimon Daisuke Dime, Ishikawa Gomon, Fujiko Mine, Koichi Zenigata fill-in: (blank) Lupin the Third 5) Which country has won the men's soccer World Cup the most times? Answer in katakana. fill-in: Brazil Brazil
The first line, #format:table, declares that the question data is to be written in tabular format. The question definition is tab-separated, with the first element being the question text, the second element being a fixed "fill-in:", and the third and subsequent elements being examples of correct answers. Click here to see a sample fill-in.xlsx
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1 #format:table
2 #messages_intro:short answer
3 #shuffle_questions:true
4 #mode:master
5 #lang:en
6 Answer the name of a country including the cities of Nashville, Houston and Philadelphia and more. sa: USA US the United States
7 2) Answer the name of the smallest country in the world. sa: Vatican City Holy See
8 3) What is the capital of Canada? Answer the name. sa: Ottawa
9 4) Who wrote the novel, "Hamlet"? sa: William Shakespeare
10 5) Which country has won the men's soccer World Cup the most? sa: Brazil
Adjustment for judging
For "Short answer," you can organize specific settings for what is regarded as a correct answer. By default, uppercase and lowercase letters, different numbers of whitespaces in the answer, and spaces in leading and trailing whitespace are treated as distinct or equivalent.
ignore_case
By default, this setting is on (case insensitive). You can change this setting by adding #ignore_case:false at the top of the question file.
  • true: case-insensitive (default) If you set "Japan" as the correct answer, both "Japan" and "japan" will be correct.
  • false: case-sensitive If you set "Japan" as the correct answer, "Japan" will be the correct answer, but "japan" will be incorrect.
ignore_whitespace_count
The default setting does not distinguish the number of whitespace.
  • true:No distinction is made between the number of whitespaces (default) If you set "ls -l" as the correct answer, then either "ls -l" (the correct answer) or "ls -l" (two whitespaces) will be the correct answer.

    A single whitespace or two or more spaces in a row is a correct answer, but no whitespace is treated as an incorrect answer.

  • false: Distinguish the number of whitespace If you set "ls -l" as the correct answer (single whitespace), "ls -l" (two whitespaces) will be incorrect.
   
ignore_whitespace
This setting is for ignoring a whitespace. The default setting recognizes a whitespace.
  • true: Ignore whitespace If you set "I am a student." as a correct answer, "Iamastudent." will also be correct.
  • false: Recognize whitespace (default) If you set "I am a student" as a correct answer, "Iamastudent" will be incorrect.
 
ignore_zenhan
Ignore the difference between double-byte characters and half-byte characters when typing answers.
  • true: In "Short answer," the default setting does not distinguish between double-byte characters and half-byte characters. If you set "ｚｅｎhan" as a correct answer, "ｚｅｎhan" (the same as the correct answer you set) will be the correct answer, and "zenｈaｎ" (double-byte and half-byte characters is reversed) will be correct as well.
  • false: Distinguish between double-byte and half-byte characters If you set "ｚｅｎhan" as the correct answer, "ｚｅｎhan" (the same as the correct answer you set) will be the correct answer, and "zenｈaｎ" (fdouble-byte and half-byte characters is reversed) will be incorrect.
 
trim
You can ignore leading and trailing whitespace. By default, this is set to on. You can change this setting by adding "#trim:false" at the top of the question file.
  • true: ignore leading and trailing whitespace (default) If you set "Japan" as the correct answer, both "Japan" and " Japan" will both be correct.
  • false: do not ignore leading and trailing whitespace If you set "Japan" as a correct answer, "Japan" will be the correct answer but " Japan" (including single whitespace) will be incorrect.
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You can set either the same commentary for each answer, or show a different commentary depending on the correctness.

Uniform settings

Add a sentence at the end of the first correct answer, separated by "|", it will be shown as a commentary after answering the question.
#messages_intro:Descriptive questions 1) The four major industrial areas in Japan are "Hanshin, Kitakyushu, and Chukyo", where is the other one? fill-in:. Keihin|The four major industrial zones in Japan are "Hanshin, Kitakyushu, Chukyo, and Keihin". Keihin Keihin Industrial Zone
Commentary for Correctness
If you add a sentence separated by "|" at the end of the first correct answer, it will be displayed as a commentary when you answer correctly. Likewise, for the second line separated by "|", the commentary will be displayed when you answer incorrectly. Even if you don't have two answers, you can display a commentary for incorrect answer by adding "|commentary for incorrect answer" in the second answer line (separated by tab in case of Excel format).
#messages_intro: description question Otsu City is the capital of which prefecture? Answer the name of the prefecture in kanji. fill-in:. Shiga|Correct answer. Shiga|Mistake. The capital of Shiga Prefecture is Otsu City. Give the name of the prefecture with the smallest area in kanji. fill-in:. Kagawa|Correct answer. Kagawa|Correct answer. |Incorrect. The prefecture with the smallest area is Kagawa.