Cloze question types

Creating Cloze style questions on Synap

Elevate your quizzes and assessments with Synap's latest suite of Cloze auto marked question types. Designed to enhance engagement and test comprehension in more interactive and versatile ways. Whether it's completing a sentence, filling in a formula, or recalling specific terminology, our new Cloze questions cater to a variety of learning styles and assessment needs.

Cloze Type	Description
Drag and drop	Users complete sentences or formulas by dragging and dropping words or phrases from a provided list into the appropriate gaps.
Drop down	Users select the correct answer from a dropdown menu to fill in gaps within sentences or formulas.
Text	Users fill in gaps in sentences or formulas by typing their responses, which are then auto-marked against specified correct answers.

Video tutorial for building Cloze questions and previewing

↔️ Cloze drag and Drop

In the Quiz Builder, select 'Add Question' and choose 'Cloze drag and drop' from the question types. Use the Question tab to write your instructions for this question, eg "Drag the correct terms to complete the sentence about XYZ". Go to the Answer tab to write your sentence and define the possible responses and correct response for this question.

Building a Cloze drag and drop question

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Cloze drag and drop question type preview

Drag and drop : Strict Match

When Strict Match is used on drag and drop each option can only be used once and each blank must be filled with the correct answer in the correct position. The classic example of this is a sentence like this "“The __1__ brown __2__ jumps” → 1 = quick, 2 = fox

Strict Match example

Drag and drop : Repeats Allowed

When Repeats Allowed is used on drag and drop answer options remain available after use, so students can select the same response multiple times. Each blank still has one correct answer in a specific order. An example of this would be to complete this sentence “The name of the UB40 hit song is `__1__ __2__ __3__” → 1 = Red, 2 = Red, 3 = Wine.

Repeats Allowed example

Drag and drop : Flexible Order

When Flexible Order is used on drag and drop each option can only be used once. But the order in which the answers are placed doesn't matter. The correct response is treated as a set - all correct values must be present, in any position. An example of this would be to complete this sentence: "“The colours of the American flag are __1__, __2__ , __3__” → correct set: Red, White, Blue or Blue, White, Red etc, the order the responses are given in doesn't matter

Flexible Order - Both / all sets are correct

🔽 Cloze drop down

In the Quiz Builder, select 'Add Question' and choose 'Cloze drop down' from the question types. Use the Question tab to write your instructions for this question, eg "Select the correct answers from the dropdown menus to complete the sentence about XYZ ". Go to the Answer tab to write your sentence and define the possible responses drop down lists.

Building Cloze drop down answers

Once done save your question

Cloze drop down type preview

🔤 Cloze text

In the Quiz Builder, select 'Add Question' and choose 'Cloze text' from the question types. Use the Question tab to write your instructions for this question, eg "Type the correct term to complete the sentence on XYZ". Go to the Answer tab to write the sentence, and define the set of correct answers.

Building Cloze text question types

Once done save your question, and don't forget you can preview you quizzes at any time directly from the builder!

Cloze text question type preview

🔤 Cloze text - Numerical range

In the Quiz Builder, select 'Add Question' and choose 'Cloze text' from the question types. Use the Question tab to write your instructions for this question, eg "Type a number between 1.0 and 2.0". Go to the Answer tab and insert a response box. If you set the response to 'Number' you can then switch to allow the user to enter a number between a range set by you. You can use decimal enforcement, which specifies the user must enter an answer to a set number of decimal places.

Setting a numberic range and enforcing 1 decimal place