Ambiguous typing prompts when multiple Spanish terms share same English gloss
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LingCo support indicated vocabulary word sets are instructor-managed. Because of this, LingCo should include safeguards/guardrails to prevent instructors from unintentionally creating ambiguous typing prompts.
Issue: In typing activities, a single English gloss can match multiple valid Spanish terms (e.g., “management” → dirección / gerencia / gestión). When duplicates exist within the same active vocabulary set, questions become a guessing game and students are marked incorrect even when their answer is reasonable, as shown in the attached screenshot where I typed gestión but the prompt was expecting dirección.
Suggested safeguards:
- Detect duplicate English glosses within an active vocabulary set and show a warning during set creation/selection.
- Require disambiguation labels (e.g., “management (executive)” vs “management (process)”).
- Allow multiple accepted answers or automatically convert ambiguous items from typing to multiple choice.
These safeguards would prevent ambiguous setups even when instructors select the vocabulary sets and would improve fairness in assessments.