Quiz : Fill blanks enhancement (score rule calculation)

[tanchon]

Hi,

The "Fill blanks" questions are my favorites. It's a simple but very powerful tool for the teacher. But i think that its potential is not fully exploited with the current score calculation rules.

For example with current rules : Form : [Adam Smith||David Ricardo] is considered to be the founder of economics Score : 10 Résult : if the student writes "Adam Smith" or "David Ricardo"=> 10 points ; if another answer => 0 point.

Describe the solution you'd like It would be great if the teacher could make a finer tune of score calculation rule.

Some suggestions with fill blanks (without scroll menu) :

Form : [Adam Smith||David Ricardo] is considered to be the founder of economics Score rule : 10||5 Result : the student writes "Adam Smith" => 10 pts ; if "David Ricardo"=> 5 pts ; if another answer => 0 pt.

Form : [Adam Smith|||David Ricardo||Thomas Malthus||Jean Baptiste Say] is considered to be the founder of economics Score rule : 10|||5 Result : the student writes "Adam Smith" => 10 pts ; if "David Ricardo"or "Thomas Malthus" or "Jean Baptiste Say"=> 5 pts ; if another answer => 0 pt.

Form : [Adam Smith||David Ricardo||Thomas Malthus||Karl Marx] is considered to be the founder of economics Score rule : 10|5|4|-3 Result : if the student writes "Adam Smith" => 10 pts ; if he writes "David Ricardo"=>5 pts .... if he writes "Karl Marx"=>-3 pts ; etc. ... ; if another answer => 0 pt.

Form : [Adam Smith||David Ricardo||Thomas Malthus||Karl Marx||%?%] is considered to be the founder of economics Score rule : 10|5|4|-3|-5 Result : if the student writes "Adam Smith" => 10 pts ; if "David Ricardo"=>5 pts .... if "Karl Marx"=>-3 pts ; etc. ... ; if another answer => -5 pts

Last, it could be generalized to scroll menu. For example :

Form : [Adam Smith|David Ricardo|Thomas Malthus|Karl Marx] is considered to be the founder of economics Score rule : 10|5|4|-3 Result : if the student selects "Adam Smith" => 10 pts ; if he selects "David Ricardo"=>5 pts .... if he selects"Karl Marx"=>-3 pts.

Additional context For the teacher who would like to stay with standard use, the syntax wouldn't change his habits. For those who would like to fine-tune the score rule calculation, it would be very great.

Simple for the teacher, but certainly not for developers i presume...

Thanks !

Tanchon

[ywarnier]

Indeed, not really possible to implement in the current state of the fill in the blanks implementation.