D2L - Let the Students Express Themselves

Let the Students Express Themselves; Using Regular Expressions in D2L Quizzing.

Ruth Kinder
Ohio State University
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Do they have to provide exactly the response you intended? or can you do partial?

These codes cause the built in regular expression engine to read through a short answer or fill-in-the-blan responses in very specific ways and make a match to all, a portion, or no match at all

Credit can then be assigned based on the level or amount of match

You don't have to give up on automated scoring and grade "by hand".

Regex
What matters most
*Specific characters or sumbols used
*Super important what order you put the answers in (building from highest priority to
lowest)
*The searching operation reuqested
*Termination of the search to save processing

Brackets [ ] take either [Ll]emon\b
*? Doesn't matter what comes next
\b Has to start with

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\w anything you put I'll give you zero