Highlight text: Enhanced question type
Use the Highlight Text question type to require students to click and select certain words, sentences, or paragraphs of text.
Question setup
Enter your question into the Question Setup field.
Use the Rich Text Editor to format text or insert images and tables.
Hover over icons to display tooltips.
The text you enter in the Question field is also displayed in Possible Responses.
Click Possible Responses and select a Quick Highlight option to determine how to add a highlight to the text.
Click Clear Highlights to reset the possible responses.
Click individual pieces of highlighted text to remove the word, sentence, or paragraph as a possible response.
Switching Paragraph-, Sentence-, or Word-level highlighting after applying highlighting at a different level removes the existing highlighting.
Correct answer setup
The text from the Question field also displays in Correct Answer Setup, with your Quick Highlight selections from Possible Responses applied.
Select a Possible Response to identify it as the correct answer.
Select all correct Possible Responses.
The percentage field for the Correct answer tab defaults to 100% and cannot be changed. If a student's response matches the correct answer, they will be awarded 100% of the points available for this question.
Add partial credit
To award partial credit for specific responses, click the + button from Correct Answer Setup to add an alternate answer.
In the percentage field for the additional answer, enter the percentage of possible points students can receive for this exact answer.
Scoring type
Choose your Scoring Type for the question after you have entered the correct responses to each blank.
Select Exact Match to require that students correctly respond to all choices. This option allocates 100% of the possible points for a correct response and zero points for an incorrect one.
Select Partial Match to award points relative to the number of correct responses. If the Scoring Type is set to Partial Match, the formula for scoring the question is:
(Value of the percentage field/the number of possible correct highlights) * (the number of selected correct highlights) = Partial Match Value
The Partial Match Value does not represent the number of points the response will receive, but the percentage of the total possible points.
The calculation always uses 100% from the main correct answer—not the alternate answers.
Example:
If there are four possible correct highlights, and a student selects three correct responses and one incorrect response, the value produced by the formula would be 75. (100 percent / 4 possible correct highlights) * (3 correct highlights selected) = 75(%). If the question is worth 10 points, the student would receive 7.5 points, because 75% of 10 is 7.5. To penalize the student for the incorrect highlight, refer to the Penalty score information.
Penalty score
When using Partial Match, you can subtract points for incorrect selections.
Set Penalty Score to 0 to ignore wrong answers.
Set it to 100 to weigh incorrect answers the same as correct ones.
The formula for scoring a question with a Penalty Score is:
[Partial Match Value] - [(Penalty/ the number of possible correct highlights) * (the number of selected incorrect highlights)]
Example
Partial Match score = 75%
Penalty Score = 20
4 correct answers total
1 incorrect selected
Penalty = 5%
Final score = 70%
If the question is worth 10 points, the student earns 7 points.
Maximum selection
Enter a number for Maximum Selection to specify how many elements students can select when answering. Enter 0, the default value, for unlimited selections.
Author notes
Enter Author Notes to explain why certain choices are incorrect, or why partial credit was given for alternate answers. This field only displays to authors with edit access. This information will not display to students.
Align learning objectives
Click + Learning Objectives to display the Learning Objectives browser.
Select a Parent Objective to find and select specific objectives.
Click Align to add the objectives.
Preview and edit the question
Click Preview Question to review how the question will display to students.
Optionally, edit the question and click Save.
Click Edit Question to return to the question editor. Alternatively, click X to close the question.