Background
Fill gaps in text is typically used when the participants have to add missing words to a text.
Example:
Procedure
Proceed as follows to create/edit a Fill gaps in text:
Go to Authoring > Items.
Go to the folder in which you want to add your item.
Click on
to add an item.
Select Fill gaps in text.
Result: The content pane of the item is opened.Enter the item name in the breadcrumb at the top.
Select + Add block to add a content block and fill in the instruction.
Enter the text with gaps in the answer block. To add a text gap, click on the desired location for the gap and select + Gap.
Select the gap and enter the correct answer(s) in the Gap tab in the Properties pane. See Answer specific options below.
Click Preview to try out your item.
Answer-specific options
Select a gap in the interaction block to fill in the answer-specific options for this gap. You can:
Add wrong answer(s).
Indicate whether an empty answer is correct (by default it is wrong). You can also override the default score for correct answers only for this empty answer, and add answer-specific feedback.
Input mask: Make sure the candidate can only type a restricted sort of characters.
Tip: for more information on input masks, read this article.
Fixed characters: Determine if characters can already be visible in the gap by selecting the number of fixed characters.
Pre-filled text: Determine if the gap should already contain text by adding content in the pre-filled text.
Correction options: Determine if the automatic correction needs to take into account several extras:
Punctuation (.,?!...)
Diacritics (à, ç, ù, ü, û, è,...)
Capital letters
Whitespaces