Chamilo LCMS Connect » Assessment

It's still an issue when you do not want to allow hints for this type of question because when this question has "real blanks" it always uses the first letter hint.

Not allowing hints (when they have been defined) would be additional functionality, not just for this question type, but for all of them.

They tell me that you don't even need to define a hint in the fill in the blanks question and you still get a hint, where in other questions when you don't fill in the hint box you don't get a hint either.

Because obviously the fill in the blanks question is a rather unique type where one can always generate a hint regardless whether or not it was actually defined. The same could apply to other questions where one needs to reply with a free-text "word".

still the teacher should have the possibility to choose whether or not to give this hint!

E.g.

fill in the blanks:

1 + 1 = [ ]

=> give the first letter shows the complete answer?!

I know this is the most stupid example, but it is one... and I can imagine there are questions with only one single letter/number as solution, take another example: a secondary level chemistry quiz... give the symbol for oxygen???

Yes he should be able to do that ... I couldn't agree more. The same applies to all question types, not just the fill in the blanks question. This requires the expansion of complex relation between assessments and questions and/or even the publication context.

You might want to specifically disable hints for a few questions all the time, which is when you'd do it in the complex assessment object. You might want to do it for a specific publication of the object (e.g. exam vs. training exercise) in which case it needs to be a property of the publication.

It's somewhere on my to do list, but takes quite a few changes and extensions to the existing system. Not a good idea at this point in time IMO.