@Tim, well, it depends.
Question: Name an animal
Case #1.- Answers without any wildcard.
Since the response analysis goes through each student answer until it finds a match and then stops, the order of the answers does not matter. Example:
- Answer #1: the dodo 50% Feedback: Well, he's extinct
- Answer #2: the cat 100% Feedback: OK
- Answer #3: the diplodocus 25% Feedback: Well he lived many years ago
Case #2
- Answer #1: the cat 100%
- Answer #2: the bat 100%
- Answer #3: the rat 100%
- Answer #4: the cat* 50% Feedback: OK, but you were asked to name one animal, not a group of animals
In case #2, the order of answers 1 through 3 does not matter, but of course answer answer 4 must come after answer 1.
I'd like to point out that the * wild character must be used very carefully, as it will accept anything. For instance, if the student answers "the cats", for which Feedback 4 is OK, but it would also accept "the caterpillar", which is an animal, and "the catwalk" or "the catcall", which are not. As a safe guideline I would recommend using the * wildcard only on its own, as the last answer in the list of answers, as a catchall for any student response other than those provided, and which are supposed to be wrong.