The file should be a glossary style plain text file where each sentence begins with a subject word or phrase and the verb is limited to either "is" or "are" for the program to work.
The full path to the file should be entered such as http://psyc100.edutools.ca/mysetup.txt so that the program can fecth the file unhampered by password protection.
The fill-in-the-blank quiz is presented with a textbox in place of the subject and the student is to enter the correct subject. The entry is evaluated for a match to the original subject using the soundex coding which means that apporximate spellings will be considered correct.
If there are more than one definition for the same word the program will attempt to randomly select an unused definition when the item is missed and then is asked again until it is correctly entered.
After all of the enteries are correct then the elapsed time is presented based on the server clock time since the start.
All of the trial by trial information is carried in the html form as hidden input variables so that no data is stored on the server.
The demo file is at http://psyc100.edutools.ca/mysetup.txt and the quiz answers are Bruce Landon and David Myers.
example text file with only 2 lines
David Myers is the author of the psychology text for the course
Bruce Landon is the instructor for this psychology course
For more information contact Bruce_Landon@douglas.bc.ca