How to define answer variations in fill-in-the-blank exercises?

In fill-in-the-blank exercises, the platform only marks a student's answer as correct when it exactly matches the option defined by the teacher — including spelling. Any variation, however minor, is marked as incorrect.

To avoid penalising answers that are substantially correct, you can define accepted answer variations for each word. The platform will then consider all defined variations as valid during grading.

How it works in practice

Imagine the word to fill in is "information". Without variations defined, the system will mark as incorrect answers such as:

• Information (capital letter)
• informtion (typo)
• Informtion (typo and capital letter)

By adding these variations in the corresponding field, all of them will be accepted as correct.

How to define answer variations

You can do this in any fill-in-the-blank exercise, regardless of how it was created:

• Created manually;
• Imported from a Word or PDF file;
• Generated with Artificial Intelligence.

1. Open the fill-in-the-blank exercise.
2. Locate each word the student must fill in.
3. Fill in the "Accepted answer variations" field with the alternatives you want to accept.
4. Save the exercise.

Tip: Always consider adding variations without accents and with capital letters, as these are the most common student errors and may not reflect a real lack of knowledge.