[LON-CAPA-users] "The submitted answer was too long."

[Stuart Raeburn]

Doug,

"The submitted answer was too long." message is displayed when a submission
receives an award of "TOO_LONG" in the case of a submission for one of  
the following response types:

numericalresponse, forumularesponse or stringresponse.

The limit of 500 characters is hard-coded in default_homework.lcpm.

According to the commit logs this was added 5/23/2003 to address bug  
#941, because of a constraint from the CAPA engine, which is used to  
evaluate correctness for numericalresponse, stringresponse (excluding  
regular expression matches), and formularesponse (excluding those  
using Maxima, now the default).

See:
http://mail.lon-capa.org/pipermail/lon-capa-cvs/Week-of-Mon-20030519/003989.html

Note: as things standard currently the limit of 500 characters still  
applies to formularesponse, even if the maxima CAS is used to evaluate  
correctness, and not the CAPA engine.


Stuart Raeburn
LON-CAPA Academic Consortium


Quoting "Mills, Douglas G" <dmills at illinois.edu>:

> HI All,
>
> Can anyone clue me in on what triggers the "The submitted answer was  
> too long."  message -- what is "too long" and can that be adjusted?   
> Is the "too long" answer stored and just not accepted? OR is it  
> truncated?  Thanks!
>
>
> Doug
>
> Douglas Mills
> Director of Instructional Technology
> Department of Chemistry
> University of Illinois
>
>