Creating fill-in-the-blank questions

Because Blackboard scores fill-in-the-blank…questions based on whether the…students answer matches the correct answer provided by you.…In older versions of Blackboard you had to manually enter every possible…spelling permutation you would accept and this was a daunting amount of work.…This all changed in Blackboard 9.1 service pack 10 and we're running service pack 13.…Fill-in-the-blank, and fill-in-multiple-blank…questions now offer pattern matching, using…regular expressions, as grading options for answers.…

What does that mean to you?…Well, it means you no longer have to rely only on exact matches for grading.…It also means you no longer have…to manually enter every possible correct answer--yay!…And, it also means that you can even make the answers case-sensitive.…So let's create a fill-in-the-blank question.…As we've already seen, I've created a test.…Each question is worth ten points.…I've got a ten-point multiple-choice question, got…a ten-point true-false question, a ten-point essay question.…

The earlier movies in this chapter show you how to do all of this.…