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, but what does this mean for the task and marking?

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. 

Let's take a look at this in slightly more detail.

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 click the + next to the correct heading at the top of the task, fill in the alternative correct responses and select match all possible responses.

Doing this will mean the auto marking will look at all the possible responses in Correct and Alternate 1 .

As another example, let's say your correct responses are A and B and your Alternate 1 is C and D. Match all possible responses means that learners will be marked correct if their response(s) appear in any of the correct or alternate responses. 

This means the learner who submits A and D will be marked correct as will learners who put A and B, C and D, or C and B.