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%TITLE Interactive Questions
%IMAGES ../images/
%HOMEURL http://www.med.ufl.edu/medinfo/
%PARENT Table of Contents
%PARENTURL index.html
%INDEX View MTX File
%INDEXURL quest.mtx
%PREVURL tables.html
%NEXTURL slides.html
%AUTHOR Richard Rathe / rrathe@ufl.edu
%AUTHURL rrathe@ufl.edu
%VERSION MTX 1.3 User's Manual / Copyright 1996 by the University of Florida
%PATH http://www.med.ufl.edu/medinfo/mtx/docs/
%MTX 1.3
#Introduction
Instructional Web pages are much more engaging when you present or reiterate
major teaching points in the form of questions. Questions force the student to
interact with the material and reinforce key concepts. MTX currently supports
three different question formats:
{#Simple##SIMPLE#} - feedback is given all at once with any right or
wrong answer
{#Progressive##PROG#} - feedback is progressively disclosed with wrong
answers
{#Multiple Answer##MULTI#} - more than one correct answer is available
#Basic Question Format
The question mark (?) tag is used to begin each question. The tag is followed by
letters indicating the correct answer (the letter "c" indicates the third choice,
etc.). The text of the question follows on a subsequent line. Questions can
include images. Here is an example of these elements:
= ?c
= ▓=picture=│
= This is the text of the question.
Questions will be automatically numbered from 1, 2, 3, etc. for each document.
Each answer begins with an at sign (@) tag. Each choice is treated as a separate
paragraph. The letters A, B, C, etc. are added automatically. Optional feedback
is provided as a series of indented lines.
= @Red
= Feedback for Red
= @Green
= Feedback for Green
= @Blue
= Feedback for Blue
There can be as few as 2 choices and as many as 26 (A-Z).
#Examples
##Simple Questions#=SIMPLE
This is an example of a simple question.
?c
What color is the sky?
@Red
Use this question type when you want to deliver feedback all at once.
@Green
The sky is not green.
@Blue
The sky is blue.
##Progressive Questions#=PROG
This is an example of a progressive question. Add a second question mark (?) tag
to add progressive disclosure to a question:
= ?c?
?c?
What color is the sky?
@Red
The sky is sometimes red but more often another color.
@Green
The sky is not green.
@Blue
The sky is blue.
Use this question type when you want to deliver progressive feedback with
each wrong answer.
###Progressive Questions with Custom Prompts
This is an example of a progressive question with a custom prompt. Text for the
prompt follows the second question mark (?):
= ?c?Get Real!!
?c?Get Real!!
What color is the sky?
@Red
The sky is sometimes red but more often another color.
@Green
The sky is not green.
@Blue
The sky is blue.
Use this question type when you want to deliver progressive feedback with
each wrong answer.
##Multiple Answer Questions#=MULTI
This is an example of a question with two right answers.
= ?bd
?bd
Which of the following are even numbers?
@One
The number 1 is odd.
@Two
The number 2 is even.
@Three
The number 3 is odd.
@Four
The number 4 is even.
@Five
The number 5 is odd.
##Questions with Images
You can use {#pictures#images.html#} or {#hypertext links#hyper.html#} in any
part of a question. Providing feedback with counter example images is one useful
technique.
?b?
{=picture=}
This is a picture of:
@The Moon
The moon looks like this:
{=moon=}
@A Flower
This is a picture of a water lily.
@Some Trees
Trees look like this:
{=trees=}
#Files and File Names
The questions on this page produce fifteen extra HTML files, one for each
feedback element. The names for these files are assigned automatically when the
MTX file is processed. For greatest {#compatibility#compat.html#}, the length of
these file names is limited to eight characters as follows:
The first four characters of the main page file name
The letter "Q"
The question number (1, 2, 3...)
The answer letter (A, B, C...)
The ".html" extension
For example, the feedback file for the first answer to question 2 is:
= quesQ2A.html
Note that these file names are arbitrary and will change as you add, move, or
eliminate questions from the original MTX file. Be sure to update any hypertext
links you make to these files when you edit them.