The dictation item type displays a list of audio player + text field sets. The student must listen to the audio and type what they hear, or a response.
When creating a dictation item, the author places each sentence or phrase to be included , on a new line in the "sentences (prompts)" field. e.g
| I am happy. This is a pen. |
By default the prompt and expected student response are the same, as in a traditional dictation activity. It is however possible to specify a different response by separating the prompt and the response with a pipe ("|") character. e.g
| Where were they? | They were in France. How many boys did you see?|I saw four boys. |
The item types, dictation chat, speech cards and listen-and-speak all use the same format to specify prompts and responses.
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