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Answers Tab

From the Answers tab you can create correct and incorrect responses and specific feedback for each answer status. The steps and available options for creating answers depends on the selected template.

Double clicking in the answer area of the Question pane opens the Settings and Answers tabs in the virtual editor. The options you see may include properties for the answer type, scoring, accuracy, and directed feedback (sometimes called "rejoinders").

For some types of questions, such as True False, you simply identify which response to the question is correct. For Multiple Choice and Multiple Select questions, you enter the correct answer and several incorrect answers. Well-written incorrect answers reduce the odds for successful guessing and let you provide specific feedback (rejoinders) in response to common mistakes. If you wish, you can also create "partially correct" answers and rejoinders.

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Note: To see information on authoring correct responses in specific questions, go to their detailed descriptions in the help.

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Properties and Functions on the Answers Tab

Answer Field

Use this input field to enter the correct response for your question. Depending on the question type you may be able to create more than one answer, including incorrect and correct choices.

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Note: The Multiple Select template provides a Choices tab where you enter the content for the choices used to populate the lists in dropdown menus. You can then select the appropriate choice for a specific menu on the Answers tab.

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Choice field

In Multiple Choice and Multiple Select questions, use this field to enter content providing the correct response. The Question Editor is available to format the text, add images, tables, and other specialized features.

Correct or Incorrect

Select a radio button to determine the appropriate status for the answer.

Directed Feedback

In Multiple Choice, Multiple Select, and True/False questions, enter a message to appear specific to the associated answer. This message is available to students once their answer is submitted.

Freeze Answer Choice In This Position

In Multiple Choice and Multiple Select questions, choose Yes or No to maintain the answer choice at the bottom of the list.

Ignored Characters

In Text answer fields for Fill in the Blank questions you can use this text box to enter characters or words to be ignore when the response is electronically evaluated.

Initial Text

Use the Initial Text field to enter a message to appear in the answer field before students submit a response. This text is used either as a prompt or to provide extra instructions for the students.

Matching

In Fill in the Blank questions, select Match answer with best score to determine the points assigned to an answer in questions allowing partial credit. Match first answer with non-zero score is the default setting for questions that do not allow partial credit.

Rejoinder

In Fill in the Blank questions, the Rejoinder option allows you to create a custom message displayed as automatic feedback for a specific response. You can use the Question Editor to format text, insert images, symbols, graphs, etc. Your message is displayed when the student chooses an associated answer and submits the question, then hovers over the correct or incorrect answer marks.

Tolerance

For Number answer fields in Fill in the Blank questions, the Tolerance option allows you to set a value as a percentage for the allowable deviation for a correct response.

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