How can I get Memrise to stop caring about the order of answers?

I am making a course to review for diabetes. How can I get memrise to not care about the order of answers? I have questions such as

Q: Name the 9 classes of oral diabetic drugs

A: Sulfonylureas biguanides alpha-glucosidase inhibitors TZDs Meglitinides DPP-4 inhibitors resin binders dopamine agonists SGLT-2 inhibitors

When the question comes up, Memrise requires to you enter it in exactly that order, which is irrelevant for learning these. How can I make Memrise accept these 9 answers in any order?

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Turn it into 9 questions, blank out each one of the group for each (term is called Closed Deletion).

Q: Name the 9 classes of oral diabetic drugs: Sulfonylureas biguanides alpha-glucosidase inhibitors TZDs Meglitinides resin binders dopamine agonists SGLT-2 inhibitors, __________

A: DPP-4 inhibitors

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I think maybe you’re supposed to be able to separate your answers with a slash: / in order to get this effect, although I haven’t tested this myself.

Try changing your answer to the following and see what happens.

Sulfonylureas/biguanides/alpha-glucosidase inhibitors/TZDs/Meglitinides/DPP-4 inhibitors/resin binders/dopamine agonists/SGLT-2 inhibitors

hmm tried this it didn’t work. still marked wrong for wrong order.
also the non-typing test w/e that’s called had a bunch of slashes in the boxes in addition to the choices from before

I just tried this with using two answers (ā€œa/bā€) and it accepts the answers ā€œa bā€ and ā€œb aā€ fine for me.

I’d suggesting trying it with just two answers separated by a slash and then if that works, work up from there to see if you can figure out what’s going on.

Do you have strict typing enabled for the course?

Accepts ā€œa bā€ and ā€œb aā€, but doesn’t it also accept ā€œaā€ and ā€œbā€? I think the slash method will ensure that the learner remembers one answer, not all nine.

I like Nukemarine’s approach above. There is active testing + passive memory reinforcement, a powerful combination.

@Finnbarr - in other fields where students memorize a set of words, students often learn a mnemonic that has the first letter of each term. The order isn’t important, but having a list order helps the memory. That trick might help students recall all 9 classes instead of just 7 or 8. (example from Geometry - All of my children are bringing in peanut butter cookies - 10 separate memories compacted into one)

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Ah, I think you’re right :slight_smile:

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i gave up some chinese courses because of that… and another issue that drives me nuts… for example you have voir and regardre both marked as to see… but when you have to write them you do not know which one to write as a def for to see… same in vietnamese that, those kia and do … how do i know which answer is ok… japanese father… otousan or chichi …