[Building Sakai] The use of curly brackets in the Fill in the Blank questions (SAM-2320/SAM-2419)

[Matthew Jones]

Do you know what other LMSes do for this question type? A quick search for
Canvas is that they use a single square bracket
<http://guides.instructure.com/m/4152/l/43378-how-do-i-create-a-fill-in-multiple-blanks-question#!prettyPhoto>
for the response areas. Does this avoid the problem? I'm not sure why the
curly brackets were chosen. In the QTI Export
<http://www.imsglobal.org/question/qtiv1p2/imsqti_res_bestv1p2.html#1405222>
it's
completely broken down into separate XML sections so that doesn't matter
either.

I *think* you'd want to keep it simple, and I also think a conversion would
be tricky so you'd probably also have to make both formats work, the old
one if someone wanted to use it, and some new one to work around the
MathJAX problem (which is filed as SAM-2320). In that case since it's a
special edge case, maybe having instructions to use a double bracket would
be the easiest and just preserve both formats?

On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 5:23 AM, RAUL SANCHEZ VEGAS <raulsv at um.es> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> We would like to get some feedback about the related jiras SAM-2320 and
> SAM-2419? Both Jiras are about the use of curly brackets in the Fill in
> the Blank questions (FIB).
>
> FIB questions make use of '{' and '}' as delimiters. What Samigo does is
> that it replaces anything they find between curly brackets with an input
> to be used as answer keys. However curly brackets are used in LaTeX
> (MathJax) or are used for programming questions too so, right now, the
> question text must avoid curly brackets. We've got several complaints
> about it.
>
> i.e.:
>
> Question text:
> "
> while(true)
> { .... }
> "
>
> Our first approach was to use use double left/right brackets or other
> character for creating FIBs answer keys, so that single brackets could
> be used in the FIB question text.
>
> What character do you think that could be used instead of curly bracket
> to create FIB answer keys?
>
> What solution should be done to the FIB questions that have been already
> created?
>
> Regards,
> Raúl
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