this is for the guidelines:
http://people.ucalgary.ca/~dmjacobs/portage/sld026.htm


Question Library: Short Answer Questions

Short answer questions allow students to write their responses in a text box. Questions with answers that are short, but longer than one or two words are appropriate for short answer questions.

Attention Although short answer questions can be autograded, unless care is taken in entering all possible correct answers you will probably need to correct the autograded score. Note, that answers are case-sensitive. For information about text pattern-matching options for autograding, see Using Regular Expressions.

Example 1:




Ask a question with one answer.

Example 2:





Ask a question.