Itamar Tzadok

I agree but as I suggested this example is quite quick and dirty. The actual question can be laid out in such a way that most if not all confusion is eliminated.

Okay I'm back. I couldn't find it so I created a quick simple example of the fraction exercise. You may notice in the images below that after submitting the answer (in a quiz) the values in the input fields are not preserved. They may be restored with just a little bit more work so if you wish to use this solution I can add this feature. By the way if you try it it won't work in the pop-up of the preview mode, only in a quiz.

In this example the values from the input fields are copied into the shortanswer field after the denominator loses focus, so the order of entering the values is important. Again, this is just a quick example and there is much more that can be done to make it more user-friendly.

Note that in the code the 'nnnnn' should be substituted with the name of the shortanswer field. So first you need to create the question like that and then open the question in preview mode, open the page html source and look up the name. Not very elegant but if it gets you what you need it is worth it.

Let me know if you need any other details.

This layout simply uses a table (with border=0) but of course as a question it can only work with one correct answer.

{:SHORTANSWER...}	{:SHORTANSWER...}
	{:SHORTANSWER...}

As for the more flexible solution give me a sec to find it (or reinvent it, whichever comes first). I'll be right back.

If I may add to and complicate a little bit this solution, in one of my experiments with cloze questions I got a similar effect while preserving a desired input layout by adding a block of html with input fields organized as desired and some javascript that copied the text from the input fields into the question's short-answer field. And so input was formatted in one way and the string that was actually matched against the predetermined answers was formatted in another.

Itamar

No, I'm not creating a whole SCORM course but that may just be circumstantial. Currently I'm simply responding to a certain need which is to automate as much as possible the marking process of a certain course. However, that component I'm SCORMing is central enough in the discipline that it may be used also in other courses. (I'm still working on the interpreter so there are no public examples yet but I'll complete it this summer and then make it publicly available)

This is a specialized functionality so it is unlikely that it'll go into Moodle's core. It can be wrapped as a plugin but that unfortunately won't do for us because our sys admins will only use standard Moodle installations. There are commercial products which provide this functionality but we cannot reasonably justify purchasing such a product, plus, we prefer that all assessment components of the course will reside in the same place and I don't think that any relevant commercial product can be integrated in Moodle. So, SCORM seems our best and only option.

The entire content part of the course can be SCORMed but as far as I know this kind of delivery puts some serious restrictions on formal assessment. Since the package is standalone it should include the answers to questions and if there's no encryption no matter how you hide them the answers are still accessible.

So how do I view SCORM? At this stage in a quite narrow pragmatic way I'm afraid. If pressed I would say that I like the idea of small standalone learning objects that may be combined in different ways and prefer that over whole courses.