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

1. 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.

     

2. 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.
     

     

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.

Configure scoring

Select a scoring method for the question.

• Exact Match requires students to answer all parts of the question correctly to receive credit. This option allocates 100% of the possible points for correctly responding to all parts of the question and zero points if one or more responses are incorrect.

• Partial Match awards credit based on the number of correct responses. Available for supported question types. For scoring calculations and examples, refer to Partial match scoring.

• Optionally, enter a Penalty Score to deduct points for incorrect responses when Partial Match scoring is enabled. For calculations and examples, refer to Penalty scoring.

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

1. Click + Learning Objectives to display the Learning Objectives browser.

2. From the available learning objectives, select a category and choose from the objectives.

3. Click Align to add the objectives.

Preview and edit the question

1. Click Preview Question to review how the question will display to students.

2. Click Edit Question to return to the question editor. Alternatively, click X to close the question.