You can use the Text Entry interaction to create autoscored, fill-in-the-blank items.

See Author Test Items for general instruction on item creation.

  1. From the Editor tab, select Add Interaction, and then select Text Entry.
  2. In the Prompt box, select Insert Text Entry to create response boxes.
  3. Under Scoring Settings, enter correct answers for each Response.
    1. If creating a math item, select Enable Math under Math Settings. Select one or more math keyboards. The selected keyboards appear next to each Correct Response box. 
  4. Enter a value in Max Points. 
  5. Under Inputs, you can adjust the Width and Expected Length, as well as enter Placeholder Text, such as "Enter your answer here."
  6. Select Save.

Math Settings

In addition to setting up a keyboard as described in Step 3 above, math has additional supported features.

Range of Accepted Values

For math items you can set up a range of accepted values if Standard Scoring is set. Authors can input a minimum and maximum value and responses within the range (including the lower and upper values) will be scored correctly. Partial scoring is not allowed for ranges.

Sample setup for Range.


Remove Units from Scoring

Select 'Remove Units' to ignore units while scoring. This allows any errant keyboard letters or unit descriptors to not count against a student's score. (ex. 12 gallons would be scored correctly as a ‘12’ entry.)


Sample Text Entry item


Sample Text Entry item with Math Keyboard


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