Using a fill in the blank exercise in a task

[jfir...@linfield.edu]

I am writing a multipart Runestone problem using tasks. I am able to have a clickable area task and a multiple choice task, but the fill in the blank does not work as a task. The problem works just fine if it is separated as its own exercise. Is this an "issue," or do I just need to avoid fill in the blank in tasks for some reason?

[D. Brian Walton]

Your assessment is correct: fill-in-the-blank currently is not supported as a task only as an exercise. I have been working on the exercise implementation, and I do not know why it was only implemented as an exercise-level interaction. I agree that having it as a task would make sense. I'll look into whether there is some technical issue that prevents that implementation.

Of particular concern for implementation, I am working on a redo of fill-in-the-blank that allows for the question to have random elements to the content and allow for the answer checker itself to account for this randomness. I do not think Runestone currently has a mechanism for separate tasks to share this type of dynamic content, so static tasks would be much easier than coupled, dynamically-generated tasks.

Brian Walton

On Wed, Jul 3, 2024 at 3:14 PM 'jfir...@linfield.edu' via PreTeXt support <pretext...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

I am writing a multipart Runestone problem using tasks. I am able to have a clickable area task and a multiple choice task, but the fill in the blank does not work as a task. The problem works just fine if it is separated as its own exercise. Is this an "issue," or do I just need to avoid fill in the blank in tasks for some reason?

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[bra...@dickinson.edu]

+1 

I am currently working on a project where having a Fill-in as a task in a multipart exercise is needed and would love to have this functionality.

[bra...@dickinson.edu]

If it is of any assistance, I have a minimal example of this issue that I built before finding this thread to try to confirm that it wasn't just our preTeXt source.

- GitHub Repository: https://github.com/braughtg/tasks-example 
  - See: `source/sec-section-name.ptx`
- Live version: https://braughtg.github.io/tasks-example/sec-section-name.html