[Xerte] How to handle wrong text entries

Peter Huppertz peter.huppertz at baselgovernance.org
Wed Apr 15 10:28:19 BST 2009


Hi Patrick, 

see my remarks below:

xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk wrote on 15.04.2009 11:15:03:

> From:
> 
> Patrick Lockley <Patrick.Lockley at nottingham.ac.uk>
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> To:
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> "Xerte discussion list" <xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
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> Date:
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> 15.04.2009 11:20
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> Subject:
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> RE: [Xerte] How to handle wrong text entries
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> xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
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> Why not static the text field once the answer is correct?

I can do that, if there is no other solution. But making the TextField 
static would already be an (unwanted) feedback.

> Or give it a property called correct and once that is true don’t add
> any more scores?

I can do that, but I have to reset this property, if the user changes his 
mind and thus changes the content of the gap. How can I detect this?

> 
> I’m not that good at xwd stuff so I am not sure how easy that is.

I think the xwd side of things is OK (so I can set the property to disable 
the feedback and can get the value in Xerte).

Peter

> 
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-
> bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Peter Huppertz
> Sent: 15 April 2009 08:35
> To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> Subject: [Xerte] How to handle wrong text entries
> 
> Dear List, 
> 
> I use the Nottingham template as a base for my modifications. The 
> template includes a gap fill exercise which uses the textEntry icon.
> I want to expand the template to include scoring for right and wrong
> fills. Also I want to disable the feedback, because the exercise is 
> used for a placement test. The only feedback is shown at the end of 
> the test like "You answered xx of yy questions correct". 
> This is what I did: 
> - changed the .xwd to contain a checkbox for "Disable Feedback" 
> - modified the gapfill.rml not to change the type of the textfield 
> (from input to dynamic) if the above option is enabled (I don't want
> to have the feedback) and disabled the feedback message 
> - added a score variable to the script which is played when the 
> entered text of the textEntry matches the phrase 
> This works all fine but I still have a problem: 
> - If the user fills in the correct phrase and than changes the entry
> again it is still considered as correct. Even worse: if the user 
> changes the entry again to the correct value the answer is counted 
again. 
> So my question is: How can I detect if the user changes the text 
> entry to a wrong value? Or perhaps there is another solution for my 
> problem I haven't thought of? 
> 
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