Previously on Podsie, short answer question answers were limited to a single word, and the student was required to type in the answer exactly. We've introduced typo detection and this changes two things: 1) if a student types in an answer that's close (close is defined by our typo detection algorithm) to the correct answer, we show the prompt in the screenshot below and give them one additional attempt to answer the question 2) short answer question responses are no longer limited to a single word, so you can have spaces, and instead, now they are limited to a maximum length of 40 characters.

Typo detection is not enabled for short answer questions that have numeric answers or for short answer questions that have answers less than 3 characters.