Edit Multi-select Problems using the Advanced Editor

If the simple editor is not enough to meet your needs, you can switch over to the advanced editor. In the setting panels on the right of the editor, click Show advanced settings, then scroll down and click Switch to advanced editor.

You can use the advanced editor to identify the elements of a multi-select problem with OLX. For more information, see Multi-select Problem OLX Reference. To format equations, you can use MathJax. For more information, see MathJax for Mathematics.

You can see the OLX for the example problem from the Overview section below.

<problem>
  <choiceresponse>
    <label>Learning about the benefits of preventative health care can be
    particularly difficult.</label>
    <description>Check all of the options below that might be reasons why.</description>
    <checkboxgroup>
      <choice correct="true">A large amount of time passes between
       undertaking a preventative measure and seeing the result.</choice>
      <choice correct="false">Non-immunized people will always fall sick.</choice>
      <choice correct="true">If others are immunized, fewer people will fall
       sick regardless of a particular individual's choice to get immunized
       or not.</choice>
      <choice correct="true">Trust in health care professionals and
       government officials is fragile.</choice>
    </checkboxgroup>
    <solution>
      <div class="detailed-solution">
        <p>Explanation</p>
        <p>People who are not immunized against a disease might still not
         fall sick from the disease. If someone is trying to learn whether
         or not preventative measures against the disease have any impact,
         he or she might see these people and conclude, since they have
         remained healthy despite not being immunized, that immunizations
         have no effect. Consequently, he or she would tend to believe that
         immunization (or other preventative measures) have fewer benefits
         than they actually do.</p>
      </div>
    </solution>
  </choiceresponse>
</problem>

Note

You can begin work on the problem in the simple editor, and then switch to the advanced editor. However, after you save any advanced OLX changes you make in the advanced editor, you may not be able to cannot switch back to the simple editor.

Adding Feedback

There are several types of feedback you can add for a multi-select problem and different ways to configure them:

Adding Feedback for Individual Answers

In the advanced editor, you configure feedback with the following syntax.

<choice correct="true">Choice label
  <choicehint selected="true">Feedback for when learner selects this
    answer.</choicehint>
  <choicehint selected="false">Feedback for when learner does not select
    this answer.</choicehint>
</choice>

For example, the following problem has feedback for each answer.

<problem>
  <multiplechoiceresponse>
    <label>Which of the following is an example of a vegetable?</label>
    <description>You can select only one option.</description>
    <choicegroup type="MultipleChoice">
      <choice correct="false">apple
        <choicehint>An apple is the fertilized ovary that comes from an apple
        tree and contains seeds classifying it as a fruit.</choicehint>
      </choice>
      <choice correct="false">pumpkin
        <choicehint>A pumpkin is the fertilized ovary of a squash plant
        and contains seeds classifying it as a fruit.</choicehint>
      </choice>
      <choice correct="true">potato
        <choicehint>A potato is an edible part of a plant in tuber form and
        is classified as a vegetable.</choicehint>
      </choice>
      <choice correct="false">tomato
        <choicehint>Many people mistakenly think a tomato is a vegetable.
        However, because a tomato is the fertilized ovary of a tomato plant
        and contains seeds it is classified as a fruit.</choicehint>
      </choice>
    </choicegroup>
  </multiplechoiceresponse>
</problem>

Adding Group Feedback

In the advanced editor, you define group feedback by adding a <compoundhint> element within the <checkboxgroup> element.

    .
    .
    .
  </choice>
  <compoundhint value="Answer Combination">Feedback when learner selects
   this combination of answers.</compoundhint>
</checkboxgroup>

For example, the following group feedback is used when learners select options A, B, and D or A, B, C, and D.

    .
    .
    .
  </choice>
  <compoundhint value="A B D">An apple, pumpkin, and tomato are all
   fruits as they all are fertilized ovaries of a plant and contain
   seeds.</compoundhint>
  <compoundhint value="A B C D">You are correct that an apple, pumpkin,
   and tomato are all fruits as they all are fertilized ovaries of a
   plant and contain seeds. However, a potato is not a fruit as it is an
   edible part of a plant in tuber form and is classified as a vegetable.
  </compoundhint>
</checkboxgroup>

Adding Hints

See Adding Feedback and Hints to a Problem for more information on adding hints to a problem.

See also

About Multi-select Problem (reference)

Add a Multi-select (Checkbox) Problem (how-to)

Adding Feedback and Hints to a Problem (how-to)

Multi-select Problem OLX Reference (reference)

Award Partial Credit (how-to)

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