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                      Students can answer with plain text, removing any mathematical comparison. You need to select the Text answer type for pure text answers with no mathematical content.

                      WirisQuizzes Studio interface when Text answer type is selected

                      Validation options

                      There are several particular validation options when we create a Text question.

                      Text specific validation options

                      Note you can set:

                      Match case: if disabled, lowercase and uppercase letters are equivalent.

                      Match spaces: if disabled, leading and trailing spaces will be removed, and internal groups of spaces will be collapsed to one.

                      Random variables

                      If the correct answer is generated using CalcMe, it must be a string. To convert an expression to a string you can use:

                      Make a constant string: a="123"

                      Concatenate with a string, even the empty one: b=123|""

                      string(123)

                      string_substitution("#1",123)

                      If you are using the string_substitution() command, it's essential to consider that mathematical expressions can't be introduced through the code editor. You can find an example below:

                      calc.strings.calc.png

                       💡Tip

                      You can see more details regarding the code editor and what this new feature has to offer here.

                      Example: Converting a number to hexadecimal

                      Imagine creating a question asking to convert a given random number to hexadecimal. To do so, we need to start creating the CalcMe algorithm where we're going to define than random decimal value and the corresponding hexadecimal representation.

                      hexadecimal_algorithm.png

                      Thus, the variable h will correspond to the correct answer to the question. We need to define it in WirisQuizzes Studio accordingly.

                      hexadecimal_correct_answer.png

                      As we want to accept both answers in capital or lowercase letters, but we want the answer to have exactly 8 digits, we will select the following validation options:

                      hexadecimal_validation_options.png

                      Once saved the changes and assigned the full grade to the correct answer, we can preview the question to see how it works.

                      Example of a text question asking to convert a decimal number into hexadecimal

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