ravim

Yes it is indeed too verbose, and students are probably going to still be confused. I’ve come up with another solution. Put an empty string in msgstr (” “) and then number the choices in a multi-select question (A, B, C, D, etc.). Then in the feedback, say which ones are right, for example, “A, B, and D are correct because…”.

Moodle also has multi-select questions (a variation of multiple-choice actually), and there too the option-level feedback responses are confusing.

I think I prefer a lo-tech solution for this particular question 🙂

Thanks for the really quick reply! 

I have just modifed exe.mo in /usr/share/exe/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES and compiled it with msgfmt (using the sudo option — it didn’t execute without it). Then I renamed the output file messages.mo as exe.mo. Now it worked! I can see the new response text under multi-select options.

It is a bit difficult to come up with good wording for the multi-select response text, but for the time being I’ve put this in:

For the correct option: “Good job! You’re right in either selecting this option or leaving it unselected.“

And here are the modifications in exe.po (line numbers 4265 onwards)

#: exe/webui/element.py:1950 exe/webui/element.py:1960

msgid “Correct”

msgstr “Good job! You’re right in either selecting this option or leaving it unselected.”

For the incorrect option: “This option is either correct and you have not selected it, or incorrect and you have selected it.“

And here are the modifications in exe.po (line numbers 4269 onwards)

#: exe/webui/element.py:1952 exe/webui/element.py:1962

msgid “Incorrect”

msgstr “This option is either correct and you have not selected it, or incorrect and you have selected it.”

I’m not very happy with this wording either, but I’m going to leave it for the time being. 

Thanks so much for your help and the tip about compiling exe.po!