Creating Fill in the Blanks questions in Wooclap
Fill in the Blanks is a Wooclap type of question that allows you having your audience filling missing words within a text. Perfect for language courses, geography, or social sciences for example.
This feature also allows you to anticipate several potential correct answers!
Create a Fill in the Blanks question
First, open the event of your choice where you would like to add a Fill in the Blanks question type. You can also start from scratch by creating a brand-new event.
Click on New Question and find Fill in the Blanks under Assess Understanding.
Looking for inspiration? Head over to the template page and download one of the existing templates for the Fill in the Blanks question type!
You can also import an already created Fill in the Blanks question from our Examples gallery. Head on to Examples gallery and choose Fill in the Blanks under Question type. You can then add the Framework of your choice to your event.
Customize the Fill in the Blanks question
Fill in your instructions or question
You can write your instructions or your question in the first instruction line. You can also add an image or sound to your question.
For instance, here "Complete this short text about India".
Once this is done, you can move on to the step of creating your Blank text!
Create your Text with blanks
Within the second field, you can define your blank text. You can use square and curly parenthesis as in this example below:
The administrative capital of India is [New Delhi].
One of India's three largest cities is [Bombay, New Delhi, Calcutta].
India has {{1.4 billion, 1,2 billion, 1 billion}} inhabitants.
For me, India is [].
The "Ignore small errors" option, located on the right side of the design interface, prevents participants from being penalized for accents or capital letters mistakes.
You can also define a Timer for your question.
Rules for defining your blanks
A single word [in square brackets] is considered to be the one and only answer and therefore, is replaced by a blank. Indeed, in the first sentence there is only one possible correct answer: [New Delhi].
[Two, 2] words separated by a comma are considered to be several possible correct answers, and are therefore replaced by a single blank. Indeed, for the second sentence, there are several possible correct answers: [Bombay, New Delhi, Calcutta]. If any of these answers is written by the participant, the answer will be considered as correct.
⚠️ In this case, note that to have multiple answers for one blank, answers have to be separated by ",". No matter whether there's a space before or after the ",".
You can define a {{Correct answer, Wrong answer, Wrong answer}} between 2 curly brackets. In this case, participants will be presented with a drop-down menu from which they can choose the correct answer.
a [] blank space in square brackets is not considered as a correct answer but as an open answer. For the fourth sentence, the participant is asked to write down a word that comes to his/her mind regarding India without a specifically right answer.
When your question is ready, don't forget to save it by hitting the Save button at the bottom right of your screen!
Launch the Fill in the Blanks question
For open propositions, participants will be able to write their own answer.
For the closed proposition, they will see a drop-down menu from which they can choose the right answer.
Once participants click on Submit, their answer will be saved.
Note that if you choose to send the Participant report to your audience, for this specific question the report will not show their answers unless it is the right answer.
That's it, your Fill in the Blanks question is now ready. It's up to your audience to find out what's behind those missing words!
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