Texarea in shortanswer question type? You opinions please

Texarea in shortanswer question type? You opinions please

by Oleg Sychev -
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From time to time I get requests for using textarea to input student's response in Preg or CorrectWriting question types. Renderer there  inherited from Shortanswer, so the question applies to Shortanswer too.

Could you tell you opinion on best way for Shortanswer and other similar questions interface

  1. change current text line to textarea starting from one line, but the user could drag it for more space.
  2. make admin option to use textarea or text line control
  3. make a question option to use textarea or text line control
  4. leave only current line control
  5. could you suppose other choices?
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Re: Texarea in shortanswer question type? You opinions please

by Tim Hunt -
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Have a look at what we did in our pattern-match question type: http://www.open.edu/openlearnworks/mod/oucontent/view.php?id=52747&section=2.2.1

Near the top of that page, there is a box "Placing the response box"

If you put either _________ or ___20x1___ in the question text, then you get a standard text input of the given length at that point.

If you put something like ___20x5___ then you get a textarea of that size (20 chars wide, 3 rows high).

Perhaps you could adopt the same convention.

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