Congratulations for persevering!
The following should work as expected:
Answer 1
Ruan (and|&) (Cissie|Cecelia)|(Cissie|Cecelia) (and|&) Ruan
Score: 2
Answer 2
Ruan|Cissie|Cecelia
Score: 1
The order of Answers is important!
Congratulations for persevering!
The following should work as expected:
Answer 1
Ruan (and|&) (Cissie|Cecelia)|(Cissie|Cecelia) (and|&) Ruan
Score: 2
Answer 2
Ruan|Cissie|Cecelia
Score: 1
The order of Answers is important!
@Adri,
Of course spaces are important in regular expressions!
Your expression Ruan (and|&) Cecelia| Cecelia (and|&) Ruan| Ruan (and|&) Cissie| Cissie (and|&) Ruan
should be re-written as
Ruan (and|&) Cecelia|Cecelia (and|&) Ruan|Ruan (and|&) Cissie|Cissie (and|&) Ruan
i.e. No spaces before or after the pipe character |
It could be shortened to:
Ruan (and|&) (Cissie|Cecelia)|(Cissie|Cecelia) (and|&) Ruan
If you want to adopt the Regular expressions in your Lesson short answers I suggest you read the documentation I wrote at Short_answer_analysis
Hi Adri,
Please remember the usual forum rule: one question per post only!
Answer to your question #1
In the Lesson settings -> Grade -> Show more -> Custom scoring: Yes
Question #1
Page contents: Name one main character for 1 mark or two main characters in the novel for 2 marks.
Use regular expressions
Answer 1 Brian -> Jump Next page -> Score 1
Answer 2 Mary -> Jump Next page -> Score 1
Answer 3 Brian (and|&) Mary|Mary (and|&) Brian -> Jump Next page ->Score 2
The regular expression in Answer 3 will accept as correct answers:
Answer to your question #2
Unfortunately the scoring system of the MULTICHOICE question in the Lesson activity is buggy and does not work as one would expect. This bug has been reported quite a few times and will probably never be fixed.
@Sali and Duane,
If you don't want that "failing grade" to show in the student's gradebook you can simply hide it... and only show it when all essays are graded.

You might also like to use my little plugin Lesson Essay Feedback which will display (to the students only) their previous attempts at Lesson Essays (if any), together with the teacher's comments and their grade (if essays have been graded).