Case sensitivity in Fill-In-the-Blank questions in New Quizzes

[jwillin]

In the New Quizzes tool I am not seeing a way to set a Fill-In-the-Blank question to be case-insensitive. I see that as an option if  I use the 'Close Enough' option based on the Levenshtein Distance but it does not allow me to set the Levenshtein to zero and that's not what I want. 

Is case-insensitivity an option? 

Thank you,

John Willingham

[rmurchshafer · Accepted solution]

John,

Interesting.  In Classic Quizzes the answers for fill in the blank is NOT case sensitive so I assumed the same for New Quizzes.  Looking more at the guide I see what you mean.  Really about the only way I see to do it would be to use the Exact Match option and then give multiple correct answers such as "grasshopper" and "Grasshopper".  It would be a nice feature to provide and option with Exact Match to be case insensitive, similar to how there is an option for that on the close enough setting,  Or to allow a 0 Levenshtein value as you suggest.  

Rick

[jwillin]

I will check to see if a feature request exists for this and create one if it doesn't.

Thank you,

John

[danaleeling]

I think one could set the Levenshtein distance to one to allow for the lead letter being in the wrong case, but this would introduce the possibility of a misspelling elsewhere in the answer if the lead letter case is correct. This is a serious problem as I almost always need case insensitive answers and I don't want a Levenshtein distance of one to allow for this. I was surprised to see that there is no setting for this situation even now in 2024. A trial run of New Quizzes in my class this spring term has me running back to Classic quizzes. NQ is not yet ready for prime time. I have too many faculty who will be thrown for a loop by issues such as this one.