Fill in the blank question with partial matching of student's answer

[maguire]

Is it possible to have a question whose answer string only has to partially match the answers in the list of the correct answers?

For example:

        What type of voltage probe has the highest impedance: active probes or passive probes?

An acceptable answer would start with "aktiva" or "acti" (depending on whether the student answers in Swedish or English), but would not have the substring "passiv" in it (either the Swedish "passiv" or English "passive"). Logically the correct answer could be expressed as a partial match: ("aktiva"|"acti")&!"passiv"'

I realize that the above question could be turned into a multiple choice quiz question, but have simply used it as an example of where a partial string match can be used. [Logically this is similar to the concept of exactness in a numeric answer.]

[Robbie_Grant]

 @maguire ,

We are giving the Instructional Designers area a little bit of love and just want to check in with you.  This will also bring this question new attention. 

I apologize for your questions sitting in the community so long without a response.  It looks like you have stumped the Canvas Community.

Were you able to find an answer to your question? I am going to go ahead and mark this question as answered because there hasn't been any more activity in a while so I assume that you have the information that you need. If you still have a question about this or if you have information that you would like to share with the community, by all means, please do come back and leave a comment.  Also, if this question has been answered by one of the previous replies, please feel free to mark that answer as correct.

Robbie

[maguire]

I used another quiz engine (the one from WIRIS - WIRIS | math & science ) to do this. I was able to take in the questions in the form that someone else had written and turn them into WIRIS code. However, I would be very interested to know if anyone has done such questions in Canvas with a quiz or with the next generation Quizzes.