How to add a text matching question – Nimble Elearning

Introduction

In this article, we’re going to show you how to add text matching questions to your pages.

Top tips before you begin

Text match questions allow you to ask your learners to type in an answer to a question.
The learner gets the question correct if their response exactly matches one of the acceptable answers that have been set up.
The text match exercise currently only allows a learner to provide a match to a single acceptable answer e.g. the learner is marked as correct if they respond with 'a' OR 'b' OR 'c'. The exercise does not currently allow matching to multiple acceptable answers e.g. we don't yet have a way to cater for questions where the learner has to respond with 'a' AND 'b' AND 'c'
If you need the learner's answer to be case sensitive we have an option for that.
Text matching questions can be used in pages throughout your course as a way to enhance interactivity, as well as in your assessment.
If you want to add a text matching question to an assessment you can select one of the text matching templates when you 'Add assessment question' in the course structure menu.

Video

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Adding a text match block to a page

To add a text match block to a page:

Whilst editing a page, pull a Text match () block from the Add content section of the side menu and onto the page.

Select the Text match block.
From the toolbar, click the edit () button.

Entering your question

To enter your question:

Click in the Question field at the top of the page.
Enter your question.

You can format your question using the toolbar that appears above the text area. To apply formatting to your question text:

Select the text you’d like to format.
Select the format you’d like to apply from the toolbar.

The formatting options, from left to right, are:

	Bold
	Italic
	Underline

Entering your acceptable answers

To enter your acceptable answers:

Move your mouse over the text that says Acceptable answer.
Enter your text.

Adding additional answers

To add additional acceptable answers:

Click the Add another button.

Deleting answers

To delete acceptable answers:

Click the button to the right of the answer.

Making answers case sensitive

If you want to make the answers case sensitive so that the learner also has to match upper and lower case text, exactly as it appears in answer, in order to be marked correct:

Select the Make case sensitive button and make sure it's ticked.

Adding feedback (pages only)

You can add feedback text to your text match exercises that will be displayed once your learners have answered the question. This option is only available when adding text match questions to pages (feedback is not available in assessments). Don’t forget that the same text will be displayed whether the question was answered correctly or incorrectly, so you should make the text neutral to cover both of these circumstances.

To add feedback text:

Enter your text into the Feedback field.

You can format your question using the toolbar that appears above the text area. To apply formatting to your question text:

Select the text you’d like to format.
Select the format you’d like to apply from the toolbar.

The formatting options, from left to right, are:

	Bold
	Italic
	Underline
	Numbered list
	Bulleted list
	External link

Returning to the page

To return to the page:

Click the in the top-right of the screen.

How your learners interact with it

Once you’ve added a text match question, your learners simply type in their answer.

If your text match question is on a page, your learner will be informed whether they answered correctly or incorrectly and your feedback text will be displayed.

If it is part of an assessment no feedback will be displayed, as assessment questions do not show feedback.