Authors can set up automarked tasks to allow for broader options in automarking. For instance, we might want to make sure learners are marked correct whether they put 8 or eight in a cloze task.

When you're creating a fill in the blanks task or image drop down, you'll see a tick box option Match all possible responses.

Sometimes with fill in the blanks tasks you'll want to allow for variations or alternate answers. And, in a nutshell, Match all possible responses means that when auto-marking a learners response, it'll look across your Correct response and all other Alternative correct responses. 

So, if you have two blanks in your task and have A and B under Correct, and C and D under Alternate 1.

When you choose Match all possible responses learners will be marked correct for any of these responses:

The system mixes and matches from the range of correct responses you've got for each item.

Let's take a look at an example you might use.

In the example above about the number of planets orbiting our star, we might want to mark learners correct if they put the number 8 instead of the word eight. 

So, if for our question, there is more than one correct answer so we would use the + next to Correct to add an Alternate 1. Fill in the alternative correct response (8) and select Match all possible responses.