Fill Blank Widget

Use fill blank when the learner should complete a sentence or short passage inline instead of answering in a separate field.

For young learners filling in numbers, like 3 + □ = 5, use a number sentence instead: they tap numbers on a big pad rather than type.

Settings to know

• Sentence is the full text the learner reads, written out the way it reads when correct.
• Blank is any word in the sentence you mark as something the learner must type. The marked word becomes that blank's main accepted answer.
• Other accepted answers let a blank accept more than one word (for example, color and colour).
• Placeholder gives an optional hint shown inside an empty blank.
• Case sensitive answers controls whether capitalization must match.
• The sentence starts at a size that fits the widget frame, and resizing the widget scales the sentence text with it.
• Style & Layout in the sidebar sets the text size and color, background, border, corner radius, spacing, and blank background. Students see the sentence exactly as the canvas shows it.

Select the widget on the canvas, click ⚙ Configure, then Edit sentence & blanks to write the sentence and mark its blanks together in one dialog. See Configuring a Fill in the Blank Question for the step-by-step. For a quick wording fix, double-click the widget on the canvas instead — blanks keep their answers when you edit the words around them. Prefer to follow along click by click? Accept more than one answer in a fill-in-the-blank builds one from a blank lesson, with hints and a second spelling.

Grading setup

Fill blank supports grading. The grading controls are in the Scoring section of the ⚙ Configure dialog.

• Scoring (the On/Off switch at the top of the section) turns grading on or off for the sentence.
• The widget's name is the readable label for this answer in results and conditions. Rename it at the top of the properties panel — see Widgets and widget settings.
• Points sets how much the sentence is worth.
• While Scoring is on, the sentence counts toward both the scene score and the lesson score.
• Group lets you include it in a custom grading group.
• Case sensitive answers (set in the Edit sentence & blanks dialog) controls whether capitalization must match.

Extra spaces in a blank are ignored: "Paris " (the trailing space tablet autocomplete often adds) matches "Paris", and two spaces between words count as one. Spaces inside a word still matter.

When an answer counts

The learner's answers are recorded when they press Enter in a blank or leave it (taps or clicks somewhere else). Enter also moves them to the next blank, so they can fill a sentence from the keyboard. In the last blank, Enter checks the sentence right away, so a scene that reacts to a correct answer does so without the learner clicking anywhere else.

How to set up the content

Write the full sentence the way it reads when correct, then select each word the learner should fill in and click Mark as blank — the marked word becomes that blank's main accepted answer. Keep each blank focused on one idea. If several spellings should count, add them under Other accepted answers for that blank.

Useful setting combinations

• Multiple accepted values per blank:

Best when synonyms or alternate forms should count as correct.

• Case Sensitive off:

Best for most elementary and middle school responses.

• Case Sensitive on:

Best for proper nouns, abbreviations, or exact conventions.

• Several blanks in one sentence:

Best for grammar patterns, vocabulary in context, and sentence structure practice.

Strong use cases

• Vocabulary in context.
• Procedural steps with missing key words.
• Language practice with verb forms or transitions.

Great pairings with other widgets

• Pair fill blank with text for instructions above the sentence.
• Pair it with button to delay checking until the learner finishes every blank.
• Pair it with audio so learners hear the sentence first and then complete it.
• Pair it with score for quick practice rounds.