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Documenting the * wild card character in Short Answer Questions.
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rkingdon committed Jun 16, 2004
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<p>By default the comparisons ignore the case of the text. There is an option
to make the comparisons case sensitive.</p></li>
to make the comparisons case sensitive.</p>

<p>The asterix (*) character can be used in answers as a &quot;wild card&quot;
character. It stands for any number of characters (including no charcters
at all). For example, the answer &quot;Long*&quot; will match
&quot;longer&quot;, &quot;longest&quot; and &quot;long&quot;. If one of
the answers is just &quot;*&quot; (a single *) this anwser will match
anything, it is normally used as the last &quot;catch-all&quot; answer.
(If an asterix (*) is actually needed in an answer, it should be entered as
\*, backslash asterix)<p></li>

<li><b>True/False</b> The answer to this type of question only has two options,
true or false. The student is prompted to choose which is the correct
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