Short answer

Short answer

These are questions in which the learner describes the answers in his or her own words.
Multiple examples of correct answers can be specified for a single question.
The options "Ignore uppercase and lowercase", "Ignore the number of whitespace", and "Ignore leading and trailing whitespace" allow you to specify the condition flexibly.


Sample quiz

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How to make a descriptive question

You can create from three types of forms: text/table format/creation form.

  • text
  • Excel
  • Create Form

The first line, starting with #, is the setting for the entire quiz.
Question data is entered with blank line separators.
The first line of each block is the question text, the second line is fixed to "fill-in:", and the third and subsequent lines are examples of correct answers.

#messages_intro:short answer
#shuffle_questions:true
#mode:master
#lang:en

Answer the name of a country including the cities of Nashville, Houston and Philadelphia and more.
sa:
USA
US
the United States

2) Answer the name of the smallest country in the world.
sa:
Vatican City
Holy See

3) What is the capital of Canada? Answer the name.
sa:
Ottawa

4) Who wrote the novel, "Hamlet"?
sa:
William Shakespeare

5) Which country has won the men's soccer World Cup the most?
sa:
Brazil

The first line, beginning with #, is the setting for the entire problem.
The first line, #format:table, declares that the question data is to be written in tabular form.
After the third line, each line corresponds to a question.
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.
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A b C d e
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

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Adjustment for judging

For essay questions, the conditions under which a question is considered to be correct can be set in detail.
By default, uppercase and lowercase letters, different numbers of white space characters in the answer, and leading and trailing white space are ignored.

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.

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:short answer
Answer the name of a country including the cities of Nashville, Houston and Philadelphia and more.
sa:
recycle|The 3Rs stands for reduce, reuse and recycle to manage waste properly.
US
the United States

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:short answer

Which city is the capital of Canada? Answer the name.
sa:
Ottawa|Correct!
Ottawa|Good try! The capital of Canada is Ottawa.

Answer the longest river in the world.
sa:
The Nile|Correct answer.
Nile|Nile is the longest and Amazon is the second longest.
|Good try!