Death by 1000 "you did not enter an answer"s

billy...@gmail.com

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Feb 23, 2025, 1:59:42 PMFeb 23

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Hi all,

I think the screenshots speak for themselves...

Question is here. How do I turn this off, gap-by-gap if necessary?

Thanks, and best wishes,

Billy

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Christian Lawson-Perfect

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Feb 26, 2025, 1:45:42 PMFeb 26

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Yep, this annoys me too.

How to deal with warnings in a gap-fill is a tricky problem. I suppose that not automatically showing the "you did not enter an answer" warning on gaps would be a good first step.

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billy...@gmail.com

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Feb 27, 2025, 9:22:12 PMFeb 27

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Yes - at least in my use cases, it's redundant. But there doesn't have to be an automatic solution: I'd be happy with a little checkbox that gives me the option to disable that warning gap-by-gap, or replace it with something like a blue "?" (analogous to the green tick and the red cross), or make all the pop-up / inline warning messages part of the marking algorithm that I can customise somehow. Alternatively, make it fade out after a few seconds, or make it disappear when it's clicked on, or something. Anything that gives the control back to me or my students!

Billy

Christian Lawson-Perfect

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Mar 13, 2025, 3:27:57 PMMar 13

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I've changed the logic to only show the warning pop-up when you've got a part input field focused.

I'm happy with this because it turns out that warning messages to do with invalid answers are always repeated in the feedback messages anyway, and those are shown regardless of the exam's feedback settings, so the student doesn't miss out on anything. When you focus an input field, the warning box is shown.

This should mean that only one warning box is shown at a time, and it can be dismissed by moving out of the input box or by pressing Escape.

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