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Wheel of Fortune style.<br><br>1 hint:<br>b__ll_h_t<br><br><br><br><br>> Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:58:35 +0000<br>> From: Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk<br>> To: xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br>> Subject: [Xerte] Text Entry Hints<br>> <br>> I've got an interaction with a passage of text, and several words<br>> blanked out to make a fill in the blank exercise.<br>> <br>> How would you best use a hint to keep the learner on track?<br>> <br>> Right now I am checking over the current answer, counting how many<br>> correct characters there are, and then adding the next one.<br>> <br>> Trouble is you can just keep banging the 'hint' button and you get shown<br>> the answer eventually, and that's what people willdo: they need to work<br>> out the answer for themselves, but get some help...<br>> <br>> Any bright ideas? <br>> <br>> Can limit the number of hints per field?<br>> Limit to the first n characters (maybe word.length / 2);<br>> Allow only so may hints for the whole interaction?<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Xerte mailing list<br>> Xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br>> http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/xerte<br> <br /><hr />Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft's powerful SPAM protection. <a href='http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/177141664/direct/01/
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