Here’s what they look like if I make the colors match
That looks great to me!
I view that as feature, because when it doesn’t work, the response fields are not set up correctly. This gives authors a clue that something isn’t right.
^ I agree! If there are going to be colors, I’d go with the darker.
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Dark is better than light if they are colored
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Default should be don’t change color, and have the color change be a feature.
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If the colored box outlines are overwhelming, could we possibly make the outline thinner and then less overwhelming?
If they’re any thinner, I think the color would be hard to see.
Record keeping from our meeting, when we were talking about the default behavior. I mentioned that in WebWork it can get frustrating for instructors and students when different problems in the problem library use different style and formatting. I think it would be an issue If some authors use colored answer blanks and others don’t.
One possibility would be to make it a course-level configuration option. Then Anurag could turn off the colored answer blanks, and Mike could turn them on. (Anurag just mentioned the possibility of a user choice, too.)
There’s going to be individual preference, but it could also depend on how Doenet is being used. If you have documents with 30 answer blanks, the colored answer blanks could look excessive. If you have 2-3 spread out answer blanks (a problem with parts a–c) then it’s a different story.
We also talked about how to ensure authors add the forAnswer attribute, whether through a warning in the editor or some other approach, so that if somebody chooses to show colors, it will work.
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I wonder how much is just an initial reaction to a new change, and how much is because Doenet activities lend themselves better to more answers all over the page, instead of pages having just a few answers and mostly spread out.
I wonder this because other systems I’ve used or seen (WeBWorK, MyOpenMath, and Edfinity, at least) have been outlining or even coloring the whole blank, and none of my students have ever said it was too much. They have commented how they get conditioned to “go for green.”
I think making it an “opt-in” property would be fine, though that doesn’t solve the issue of different pages or authors doing things differently.
I’m not yet sure what the default for colorCorrectness should be. But, I did go ahead and changed the color to be darker to match the check work button colors.
I went ahead and published a new version of DoenetML so folks can test it out. It should be live on beta.doenet.org and in PreTeXt shortly.