[New Quizzes] Fill in the Blank distractors can conflict with correct answers
The fill in the blank question style is awesome! For the complex terms I cover in class the goal is to build familiarity with large set of vocabulary and how terms are related. One challenge has been that each blank has to have its own set of distractors ( covered in another post -- see below). That can lead to a pretty big word bank. The more significant challenge is that if the correct answer for one blank is the distractor for another blank the result is unpredictable. The grading system see identical answers as different.
Would it be a crazy idea to solve this by simply having the word bank presentation consolidate duplicates? Grading would be done by matching just as is done for open entry, so the bug below would go away. 🙂
This approach would avoid changes to the question design system. However a simpler fix might be in the design system. The current FITB question editor requires distractors specific to each blank. While that restriction is important if there is only one blank. It appears excessive if there are multiple blanks, since answers are drawn from a single word bank. That is where the duplicate appear.
The Idea post doesn't have a RCE to post pictures but I first posted it a community forum there is full description at this link with images: Thank you for the suggestion to move the post here. Fill in the Blank distractors can conflict with correct Answers - Instructure Community
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