LehrPuls

Live polling in the lecture hall — local, no cloud.

← hollomey.com Deutsch

Guides › Fill-in-the-gaps

Fill-in-the-gaps

In a fill-in-the-gaps question, participants complete missing terms, numbers or parts of formulas in the running text — with an input field or a drop-down list. Each gap is scored individually.

Input gaps

You write the text and put the gaps, including their solution, directly into it: `{{solution}}`, and for equivalent notations `{{solution|alternative}}`. Participants fill in the gaps within the running text. Upper and lower case do not matter; for numbers, comma and period are equivalent.

  1. 1

    Create a new question

    Step 1 of 14

    Open Topics & Questions, select the topic on the left where the question belongs, and click + Question.

    Screenshot Cockpit 11Topics & Questions22Select topic33New question
    Cockpit
  2. 2

    Choose the question type

    Step 2 of 14

    The editor opens. Click the Question type field and choose Fill-in-the-gaps (cloze).

    Screenshot Cockpit 11Fill-in-the-gaps (cloze)
    Cockpit
  3. 3

    Put gaps into the text

    Step 3 of 14

    Choose the question type Fill-in-the-gaps (cloze) and write the solutions into the text in double curly braces. More convenient: select a word and click Insert gap — this is how “ohms” became a gap here. A vertical bar separates equivalent notations: `{{volts|V}}`. Table from clipboard takes cells copied from Excel as a table, whose cells you then turn into gaps.

    Screenshot Cockpit 11Title22Question text33Gaps as {{…}}44Insert gap55Paste a table66Preview
    Cockpit
  4. 4

    Save

    Step 4 of 14

    Click Save (or press Cmd+Enter or Ctrl+Enter). The question is now in the topic and can be added to any playlist.

    Screenshot Cockpit 11Save
    Cockpit
  5. 5

    Start the session: participants join

    Step 5 of 14

    After the start, the projector shows the QR code and the address. Participants scan the code with their smartphone and they are in — no app, no account. How to start a session is shown in the guide Running a session.

    Screenshot Projector
    Projector
    Screenshot Smartphone
    Smartphone
  6. 6

    Show the question

    Step 6 of 14

    In the live cockpit the question is listed on the left. The large Show question button — or the space bar — opens it on all devices and shows it on the projector.

    Screenshot Cockpit 11Show question (space bar)22connected devices
    Cockpit
  7. 7

    Answer on the smartphone

    Step 7 of 14

    The smartphone shows the text with input fields at the gaps; below it the app counts the filled gaps. Sending is possible from the first filled gap on — an empty gap counts as wrong.

    Screenshot Smartphone 11Fill in the gap22Send
    Smartphone
  8. 8

    The answer has arrived

    Step 8 of 14

    After sending, the smartphone confirms receipt. Until the question is closed, Change answer still allows corrections.

    Screenshot Smartphone
    Smartphone
  9. 9

    Answers come in

    Step 9 of 14

    In the cockpit you see how many participants have already answered; on the right under Responses every single answer is listed. Only you see this — the projector just counts and shows no distribution yet.

    Screenshot Cockpit 11Submissions so far22Close (space bar)33single answers
    Cockpit
  10. 10

    The projector while collecting

    Step 10 of 14

    The projector shows the question and the options; at the bottom LehrPuls counts the answers received.

    Screenshot Projector
    Projector
  11. 11

    Close the question, then reveal

    Step 11 of 14

    Close ends the submission; after that LehrPuls accepts no more answers. The main button now reads Show results — one more press of the space bar shows the result.

    Screenshot Cockpit 11Show results
    Cockpit
  12. 12

    The reveal on the projector

    Step 12 of 14

    The reveal puts the solutions into the gaps and states below how many gaps were filled correctly in total.

    Screenshot Projector
    Projector
  13. 13

    The reveal on the smartphone

    Step 13 of 14

    On the smartphone, correct entries appear green in the gaps, wrong ones red and struck through with the solution next to them.

    Screenshot Smartphone
    Smartphone
  14. 14

    The reveal in the cockpit

    Step 14 of 14

    The cockpit shows the result as well. The space bar moves on to the next question; after the session everything is under Analytics.

    Screenshot Cockpit
    Cockpit

Choice gaps

Instead of an input field, a gap can be a drop-down list: after the solution put a tilde `~` and the wrong choices, for example `{{ohms ~ volts ~ amperes}}`. On the device the choices appear in alphabetical order so that their position gives nothing away. Input and choice gaps can be mixed in one text.

  1. 1

    Create a new question

    Step 1 of 14

    Open Topics & Questions, select the topic on the left where the question belongs, and click + Question.

    Screenshot Cockpit 11Topics & Questions22Select topic33New question
    Cockpit
  2. 2

    Choose the question type

    Step 2 of 14

    The editor opens. Click the Question type field and choose Fill-in-the-gaps (cloze).

    Screenshot Cockpit 11Fill-in-the-gaps (cloze)
    Cockpit
  3. 3

    Write choice gaps

    Step 3 of 14

    After the solution come the wrong choices, each separated by `~`. Alternative notations of the solution stand before the first tilde as usual: `{{farads|F ~ henries ~ teslas}}`. The preview on the right shows the drop-down lists.

    Screenshot Cockpit 11Title22Question text33solution ~ wrong ~ wrong44Preview55Preview
    Cockpit
  4. 4

    Save

    Step 4 of 14

    Click Save (or press Cmd+Enter or Ctrl+Enter). The question is now in the topic and can be added to any playlist.

    Screenshot Cockpit 11Save
    Cockpit
  5. 5

    Start the session: participants join

    Step 5 of 14

    After the start, the projector shows the QR code and the address. Participants scan the code with their smartphone and they are in — no app, no account. How to start a session is shown in the guide Running a session.

    Screenshot Projector
    Projector
    Screenshot Smartphone
    Smartphone
  6. 6

    Show the question

    Step 6 of 14

    In the live cockpit the question is listed on the left. The large Show question button — or the space bar — opens it on all devices and shows it on the projector.

    Screenshot Cockpit 11Show question (space bar)22connected devices
    Cockpit
  7. 7

    Answer on the smartphone

    Step 7 of 14

    On the smartphone, choice gaps appear as a list to tap, input gaps as a field. Both can be mixed in one sentence.

    Screenshot Smartphone 11Choose from the list22Send
    Smartphone
  8. 8

    The answer has arrived

    Step 8 of 14

    After sending, the smartphone confirms receipt. Until the question is closed, Change answer still allows corrections.

    Screenshot Smartphone
    Smartphone
  9. 9

    Answers come in

    Step 9 of 14

    In the cockpit you see how many participants have already answered; on the right under Responses every single answer is listed. Only you see this — the projector just counts and shows no distribution yet.

    Screenshot Cockpit 11Submissions so far22Close (space bar)33single answers
    Cockpit
  10. 10

    The projector while collecting

    Step 10 of 14

    The projector shows the question and the options; at the bottom LehrPuls counts the answers received.

    Screenshot Projector
    Projector
  11. 11

    Close the question, then reveal

    Step 11 of 14

    Close ends the submission; after that LehrPuls accepts no more answers. The main button now reads Show results — one more press of the space bar shows the result.

    Screenshot Cockpit 11Show results
    Cockpit
  12. 12

    The reveal on the projector

    Step 12 of 14

    The reveal puts the solutions into the gaps and states below how many gaps were filled correctly in total.

    Screenshot Projector
    Projector
  13. 13

    The reveal on the smartphone

    Step 13 of 14

    On the smartphone, correct entries appear green in the gaps, wrong ones red and struck through with the solution next to them.

    Screenshot Smartphone
    Smartphone
  14. 14

    The reveal in the cockpit

    Step 14 of 14

    The cockpit shows the result as well. The space bar moves on to the next question; after the session everything is under Analytics.

    Screenshot Cockpit
    Cockpit