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A fill-in excercise in the student's exam (the answer is written in the entry space). See picture below

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Creating fill-in exercises 

1. Select question type: Fill-in exercise

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2. Add the question text for the fill-in excercise. NOTE! If you copy the text from e.g. Word, paste it as plain text with the ctrl+shift+v keys.

3. Select the part the text you wish to add the entry space to and select the "abc - Embedded answer" icon from the editor's toolbar.

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4. Enter the correct answers according to the instructions in EXAM or below. Set the embedded answer settings and click the OK button. The system shows embedded answer spaces and the correct answers on a yellow background.

  • Enter the correct answers
    • Use vertical bar ( | ) to separate correct answer options from each other. 
  • Use asterisk ( * ) as a wildcard to match any series of characters. For example
    • *ship|boat|ferry would match answers "ship", "flagship", "boat" and "ferry". If you really do want to match an asterisk or a vertical pipe then use a backslash like this: 10\*10=100
  • Select whether capitalization is important
  • If the answer is numeric, you can set the required precision for the answer

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Space matters

  • The answer options are separated by | - character, which must not be preceded or followed by a space!


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5. Add the maximum points. You can also use decimals by entering the score in the field. Use a period as the decimal separator.

Additional information of the question

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  • You can add other owners to the question (the question will appear in their question bank and they can edit it).
    • Find the user you want to add as an owner of the question and click the Add button. The question owner has full rights to edit the question, even if it is in another owner's question bank.
  • You can add an attachment to the question, which the student can open in the exam.
    • Note! Add an attachment in pdf, Word or image format (for other file formats, please check the software options of the exam computers). Do not use web links in the question or attachment, as access to the web from the exam computer is blocked.
  • You can write question instructions which will be displayed to the student during the exam.
  • You can add tags to categorize questions and make them easier to find in the question bank.

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The evaluation view shows the original question, the student's answer, the number of correct answers and the total score.

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If you want to change the points given by Exam, you can put a new score in the Skip automatic points field below the task.

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The points you corrected will appear in the score for the question and in the total score of the exam.

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If the exam has automatic evaluation, changing the points does not affect the preliminary grade of the exam. The grade must be changed manually.

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