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| '''Embedded answers (Cloze)''' questions consist of a passage of text (in Moodle format) that has various answers embedded within it, including multiple choice, short answers and numerical answers.
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| There is currently no graphical interface to create these questions - you need to specify the question format using the text box or by importing them from external files.
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| Lots of people suggest that [http://hotpot.uvic.ca/ Hot Potatoes] software is the easiest way to create Embedded answer (Cloze) questions. Once you have created your questions on your PC, you can then import them into into Moodle's quiz module.
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| Import Limitation: You can only import one Embedded Answer question at a time. So if you were thinking of creating a .txt file to import several of these questions at one time it won't work.
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| ==Format==
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| The Moodle [http://moodle.org/help.php?module=quiz&file=multianswer.html help documentation for Cloze questions] gives an example.
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| NB: Be careful when copying a cloze type question into the WYSIWYG HTML editor, as line breaks tend to get added, which destroys the question.
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| ===Some examples===
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| Match the following cities with the correct state:
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| * San Francisco: {1:MULTICHOICE:=California#OK~Arizona#Wrong}
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| * Tucson: {1:MULTICHOICE:California#Wrong~%100%Arizona#OK}
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| * Los Angeles: {1:MULTICHOICE:=California#OK~Arizona#Wrong}
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| * Phoenix: {1:MULTICHOICE:%0%California#Wrong~=Arizona#OK}
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| The capital of France is {1:SHORTANSWER:=Paris#Congratulations!~%50%Marseille#No, that is the second largest city in France (after Paris).~*#Wrong answer. The capital of France is Paris, of course.}.
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| If the correct answer contains { } # ~ / " or \ you will have to escape them by putting a \ in front of each such character. In the feedback ~ and } must be escaped otherwise it will be interpreted as ''the next answer'' or ''end of the short answer section'' respectively. Quotation signs: " can lead to trouble anyhow in both places. Use the HTML entity: & quot; (without the space between ''&'' and ''quot;'').
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| Please note that this does not cover the [[Numerical]] type question.
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| ===Detailed syntax explanations===
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| # all question items within a cloze-type question are coded inside curled braces { }
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| # the number which appears between the opening brace and the colon {1: is the weighting of that item; if it is set at 1 for all the items, it needs not be specified, so you can have {:
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| # after the colon we have the item question type: MULTICHOICE, SHORTANSWER, NUMERICAL
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| # '''NOTE'''.- If you have installed the [http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=338 REGEXP question type plugin] you can also use the REGEXP question type
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| # the syntax for MULTICHOICE and SHORTANSWER is the same; the only difference is in the displaying of the item to the student
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| # the order of the various answers is indifferent (except if you want a catch-all for wrong answers, see #12 below)
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| # a correct answer is preceded with the equal sign = or a percentage (usually %100%)
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| # a wrong answer is preceded with nothing or a percentage (usually %0%)
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| # you can allocate some points between 0 and 100 to some answers, if you put the appropriate percentage
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| # all answers except the first one are separated from one another by the tilde ~ sign
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| # answers can be followed by an optional feedback message, preceded with the # sign; if there is no feedback message, the # sign can be present or absent, it does not matter
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| # note that the feedback message is displayed in a small popup window (if and when feedback has been declared accessible to the students in the Quiz settings) upon mouse hovering. The popup window has a title "feedback" and you can use HTML tags to format your feedback.
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| # in the SHORTANSWER type you may want to put a catch-all (wrong) answer in order to send a "wrong, try again" feedback; you can do this by inserting an asterisk '''*''' as '''the very last expected answer''' in your formula
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| # unfortunately in MULTICHOICE MODE it is not possible to get the answers to be scrambled
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| # unfortunately in SHORTANSWER mode it is not possible to make the answers case-sensitive except by using a workaround explained in [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=36430&parent=170308 this thread])
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| ==See also==
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| This information was drawn from:
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| *[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=36521 Is there a guide to using the cloze format?] forum discussion
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| *[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=36430&parent=170308 Cloze-type question syntax] forum post
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