Solution: [Xerte] How to handle wrong text entries

Patrick Lockley Patrick.Lockley at nottingham.ac.uk
Wed Apr 15 12:50:50 BST 2009


If you’re using the page model method, you could make a new model and distribute?

 

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 12:34
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Subject: Solution: [Xerte] How to handle wrong text entries

 

Just if some else needs this: 

I created another event in mainInteraction which listens for onClosePage. If the page is closed a script is called containing the following code: 

gapXML=gapInt.XMLElement; //ID of the main interaction 
for(i=0; i<gapXML.childNodes.length; i++){ 
   if(gapXML.childNodes[i].attributes.type == "textEntry"){ //check if we have a text entry element 
      if(gapXML.childNodes[i].attributes.phrase == gapXML.childNodes[i].clip().text){ //check if the text of text entry is equal to the phrase you want 
         debug("correct"); //do something with this information. 
      } 
   } 
} 

I'm going to add the functionality for case sensitivity and than, hopefully I'm done ... so less code, so much time. 

Peter 



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Patrick Lockley <Patrick.Lockley at nottingham.ac.uk> 

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15.04.2009 12:36 

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RE: [Xerte] How to handle wrong text entries 

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You’ve reached the end of my knowledge at this point. 
  
When xerte creates the textfields when the pages opens, is it possible to store a reference to them in an array – loop over that later? 
  
From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk <mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> ] On Behalf Of Peter Huppertz
Sent: 15 April 2009 11:17
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Subject: RE: [Xerte] How to handle wrong text entries 
  
Yes, I could add an onPageClose event and evaluate the answers than. I can get the correct answers reading the phrase attribute, but how can I get the values of the textfields (gaps). 

Peter 

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Patrick Lockley <Patrick.Lockley at nottingham.ac.uk> 

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15.04.2009 11:51 

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Maybe change how it works – don’t evaluate the answers until you have to, then check the answers? 
 
From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk <mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> ] On Behalf Of Peter Huppertz
Sent: 15 April 2009 10:28
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Subject: RE: [Xerte] How to handle wrong text entries 
 
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> 
> 
> To: 
> 
> "Xerte discussion list" <xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> 
> 
> Date: 
> 
> 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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> Sent by: 
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> xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk 
> 
> 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- <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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