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Allows a student to submit online text and/or upload a file to respond to the question. This answer must then be graded manually.

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Essay type questions are not checked through Turnitin. If you require plagiarism checking consider using an Assignment activity instead.

Response format: How do you want your students to respond to the question?

  1. Enter text only → HTML Editor

  2. Enter text OR upload a file → HTML editor with file picker

  3. Upload file only → No online text

Depending on your selection above additional settings will become available:

HTML Editor OR HTML editor with file picker

Require text: Require that the student input text or make it optional.

Input box size: How lines long do you want the input box to be. The input box size can be used as an indicator by students. They are always able to write more or less.

HTML editor with file picker OR No online text

Allow attachments: Specify how many attachment you will accept from each student, None, 1, 2, 3, or Unlimited.

Require attachments: This option specifies the minimum number of attachments required for an answer to be considered gradable.

Accepted file types: You can restrict students to only submit specified file types. These can be selected from the list provided, click Choose, or entered in the field provided for anything that is not be found on the list. Multiple file types can be accepted per student answer if they are allowed to submit more than one file.

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