Numerical Question type merged with Numerical with Units

You may remember that we announced a new question type, numerical with units, in March. After the successful beta period, we have just rolled out this feature into the numerical question type. If you have coded any questions as numerical with units, you will not have to do anything. Your new questions have been changed to numerical, automatically, but will still behave as a numerical with units question type.

Now, to create a numerical question with units, you just enter the unit after the number or eqn tag on the same line. For example, if the answer is in m/s and the numerical value is <eqn $a/$b>, the code for the answer box is

<eqn $a/$b> m/s

You can use tolerance, $SIGFIGS, and $thisresponse when you include units. Two new variables, $thisnum and $thisunit will hold the values of the entered number and unit, respectively so that you can use post processing.

Please see the template question, QID 530426, for examples of how to create questions that require the students to enter units.

Have fun with this important new feature and let us hear how you are using it.

The WebAssign Team