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The Fill-in-the-Blanks tool allows for easy creation of dynamic on-line fill-in-the-blank exercises from a simple plain-text file of the following format:

Punishment and [aversive] control are common.
A story which pleases me by its [naïveté] -- that is, by its unconscious [ingenuousness].
# Physically, the [border] is harder to cross.

Note that answers, which are to be replaced by blanks must be delimited by square brackets. This tool automatically numbers each line of the text file. Should you wish to leave a line un-numbered, precede that line with a #. This text file will produce the following form:

1. Punishment and control are common.
2. A story which pleases me by its -- that is, by its unconscious .
Physically, the is harder to cross.

It is critical that this text file be written in plain-text, and any special characters within be referenced by the corresponding HTML-entities (for example, é must be written as é). Be advised that for optimal display of diacritic characters, your browser's as well as your web-document's text-encoding (character set) should be set to UTF-8.

For more detailed instructions on how to easily create you own fill-in-the-blanks webpages, visit our Wiki at http://studio.colby.edu/wiki/wiki.php?id=66.

If you already have a text file, upload it using the form below, preview your FITB exercise, and include the generated source-code in your webpage. Don't forget to send us your comments, questions, or suggestion via our Contact page.


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