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From: Mike Warner
Date: May 20, 2016 10:02AM

Hi all,

maybe I'm not thinking straight today, since I got too little sleep, but
I'm unsure as to the best solution. We've got fill-in-the-blank exercises,
and the blank can appear anywhere in the sentence. Instead of having a
series of underscores and then the text input at the end, we have the text
input right where the missing word goes. Everything works great, and our
students enjoy the layout, but I'm not sure where to put the label for the
text input. The sentence could be as follows:

The moon is made out of ____ cheese.

Should the label tag be on the bit before, the blank, after the blank, or
on the whole sentence? I'm thinking that it should be the whole sentence,
but my tired brain can't decide.

Thanks!

Mike

Mike Warner
Director of IT Services
MindEdge, Inc.