[Xerte] Re: Distractors in gap fills

[Simon Barne]

It works fine. This is BRILLIANT and EXTREMELY USEFUL and well worth
incorporating in the standard XOT template, if possible.


On 29 March 2011 12:43, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
> Sorry, file attached. Back up your other files before making the changes just in case.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tenney Julian
> Sent: 29 March 2011 12:43
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> Subject: RE: [Xerte] Re: Distractors in gap fills
>
> My model has code to handle 'noise' or distracters. It's attached. It might be newer than the one you have.
>
> Replace the gapFill section in the .xwd with this one, and then add the optional 'Distractors' property and add the words you want to add as distractors. I think.
>
>  <!--GAP FILL INTERACTION-------------------------------------------------------->
>  <gapFill menu="Interactivity" menuItem="Gap Fill" icon="icTextEntry" remove="true" thumb="thumbs/gapFill.jpg" hint="An interaction for creating a drag and drop gap-fill exercise.">
>
>    <name type="TextInput" label="Page Title"/>
>    <text type="TextArea" height="100" label="Introductory Text"/>
>    <passage type="TextArea" height="150" label="Gap Fill Text"/>
>    <interactivity type="ComboBox" label="Interactivity" options="Drag Drop,Fill in Blank" width="100"/>
>    <feedback type="TextArea" height="50" label="Feedback"/>
>    <panelWidth type="ComboBox" label="Panel Width" options="Small,Medium,Large,Full" width="100"/>
>
>    <narration type="media" label="Narration" optional="true"/>
>
>    <noise type="TextArea" height="50" label="Distractors" optional="true"/>
>
>  </gapFill>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Simon Barne
> Sent: 29 March 2011 10:51
> To: xerte
> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Distractors in gap fills
>
> Perhaps I should restate my problem. Is there any way I can add
> distractors to gap fills using the standard XOT (Nottingham) template?
>
>
> On 28 March 2011 13:39, Simon Barne <simonbarne at gmail.com> wrote:
>> There is the option of adding distractors to gap fills with the Media
>> Interactions template, but not with the Xerte Online Toolkit
>> (Nottingham) template. However, the latter gapFill.rlm includes some
>> code with the comment "add any additional distractors".
>>
>> Can anyone advise?
>>
>
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