[LON-CAPA-users] Forcing integer answer

Ray Batchelor lon-capa-users@mail.lon-capa.org
Wed, 20 Nov 2002 11:23:55 -0800


Hi again,

I don't think the or option is available yet --
see bug #33
Cheers,
Ray

On November 20, 2002 11:27 am, Felicia Berryman wrote:
> Lars Jensen wrote:
> > On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Felicia Berryman wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>Lars Jensen wrote:
> >>
> >>>How do I force the student to enter an integer answer. Say that the
> >>>answer is 155 and I want to allow 154, 155, 156 as only possible
> >>>answers. Values between these are not allowed. If I set the tolerance to
> >>>1 the system allows values in between, and setting the format to "0f"
> >>>only affects the display, not the student input. Is there some way I can
> >>>force the answer to be an integer?
> >>>
> >>
> >>Maybe string response?  Make the answer "155"?
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > Would string response allow three different correct answers?
> 
> I can't think of a way of doing this.  I'm not sure if you can put an 
> "or" in the answer box.  If you can, I think you can get it to work.
> 
> 
> 
> > 
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> Felicia Berryman
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