Text Input Problem XML Reference

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Template

<problem>
  <stringresponse answer="Correct answer 1" type="ci regexp">
    <label>Question text</label>
    <description>Optional tip</description>
    <correcthint>Provides feedback when learners submit the correct
     response.</correcthint>
    <additional_answer answer="Correct answer 2"/>
    <additional_answer answer="Correct answer 3"/>
    <stringequalhint answer="Incorrect answer 1">Provides feedback when
     learners submit the specified incorrect response.</stringequalhint>
    <stringequalhint answer="Incorrect answer 2">Provides feedback when
     learners submit the specified incorrect response.</stringequalhint>
    <textline size="20" />
  </stringresponse>
  <demandhint>
    <hint>The first text string to display when learners request a hint.</hint>
    <hint>The second text string to display when learners request a hint.</hint>
  </demandhint>
</problem>

Elements

For text input problems, the <problem> element can include this hierarchy of child elements.

<stringresponse>
    <label>
    <description>
    <additional_answer>
    <correcthint>
    <stringequalhint>
    <textline>
    <solution>
<demandhint>
    <hint>

In addition, standard HTML tags can be used to format text.

<stringresponse>

Required. Indicates that the problem is a text input problem.

Attributes

Attribute	Description
answer (required)	Specifies the correct answer. Note that if you do not also add the type attribute and set it to regexp, the learner’s answer must match the value for this attribute exactly.
type (optional)	Specifies whether the problem requires a case sensitive response and if it allows regular expressions. If type="ci", the problem is not case sensitive. If type="cs", the problem is case sensitive. If type="regexp", the problem allows regular expressions. You can also combine these values in a space separated list. For example, <stringresponse type="regexp cs"> specifies that the problem allows regular expressions and is case sensitive.

Children

• <label>

• <description>

• <textline>

• <additional_answer>

• <correcthint>

• <stringequalhint>

• <solution>

<label>

Required. Identifies the question or prompt. You can include HTML tags within this element.

Attributes

None.

Children

None.

<description>

Optional. Provides clarifying information about how to answer the question. You can include HTML tags within this element.

Attributes

None.

Children

None.

<textline>

Required. Creates a response field in the LMS where the learner enters a text string.

Attributes

Attribute	Description
size	Optional. Specifies the size, in characters, of the response field in the LMS. Defaults to 20.
hidden	Optional. If set to “true”, learners cannot see the response field.
correct_answer	Optional. Lists the correct answer to the problem.
trailing_text	Optional. Specifies text to appear immediately after the response field.

Children

None.

<additional_answer>

Optional. Specifies an additional correct answer for the problem. A problem can contain an unlimited number of additional answers.

Attributes

Attribute	Description
answer	Required. The text of the alternative correct answer.

Children

<correcthint>

<correcthint>

Optional. Specifies feedback to appear after the learner submits a correct answer.

Attributes

Attribute	Description
label	Optional. The text of the custom feedback label.

Children

None.

<stringequalhint>

Optional. Specifies feedback to appear after the learner submits an incorrect answer.

Attributes

Attribute	Description
answer	Required. The text of the incorrect answer.
label	Optional. The text of the custom feedback label.

Children

None.

<solution>

Optional. Identifies the explanation or solution for the problem, or for one of the questions in a problem that contains more than one question.

This element contains an HTML division <div>. The division contains one or more paragraphs <p> of explanatory text.

<demandhint>

Optional. Specifies hints for the learner. For problems that include multiple questions, the hints apply to the entire problem.

Attributes

None.

Children

<hint>

<hint>

Required. Specifies additional information that learners can access if needed.

Attributes

None.

Children

None.

See also

Text Input Problem (reference)

Adding a Text Input Problem (how to)

Edit Text Input Problems using the Advanced Editor (how to)

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