Hello community...
The government specification forces us to have a minimum and a maximum amount of "characters". Currently, in 3.11, I only see an option for "Word count". Is there an option somewhere or config file we can change for Moodle to count the characters instead of Words? Thanks.
Too bad... Thanks for the quick reply. We'll have to come up with an average of characters per "word" to use the word limit in Moodle properly.
It's quiz with an "essay" question where the response must contain a minimum and a maximum of characters. At the moment, Moodle only provides the option to use a word count for min/max instead of character count.
Hello Al and Tim,
As Al says, counting punctuation with a space on both sides as a word, as the Essay question and MS word do, is probably not adequate. Punctuation probably shouldn't be counted in a character count either.
Something like this, in despicable jQuery , would probably do the trick:
numberSpacePeriodSpace = (string.split(" . ").length - 1);
numberSpaceCommaSpace = (string.split(" , ").length - 1);
numberSpaceColonSpace = (string.split(" : ").length - 1);
numberSpaceSemicolonSpace = (string.split(" ; ").length - 1);
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Now that Al's gone to put out the fire,
I'll finally be able to play a game for the doggies.
I have finally gotten a Diary setup to show three versions of word and character counts. Details are in the new character count discussion at https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=423166#p1705281.