[Xerte] Text Entry Hints

[Dave Burnett]

Wheel of Fortune style.

1 hint:
b__ll_h_t




> Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:58:35 +0000
> From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
> To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> Subject: [Xerte] Text Entry Hints
> 
> I've got an interaction with a passage of text, and several words
> blanked out to make a fill in the blank exercise.
> 
> How would you best use a hint to keep the learner on track?
> 
> Right now I am checking over the current answer, counting how many
> correct characters there are, and then adding the next one.
> 
> Trouble is you can just keep banging the 'hint' button and you get shown
> the answer eventually, and that's what people willdo: they need to work
> out the answer for themselves, but get some help...
> 
> Any bright ideas? 
> 
> Can limit the number of hints per field?
> Limit to the first n characters (maybe word.length / 2);
> Allow only so may hints for the whole interaction?
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