How it works/Forms & quizzes

Cultura italiana offers effective tools for rapid creation of forms, either standard form with input field aimed at receiving data from visitors, or forms with multiple choice questions or even Cloze tests to be used as teaching tools for current students or to engage prospective ones. All forms include interactive validation, are protected by the latest version of Google recaptcha and are automatically "mirrored" by the respective dynamic component on the front-end (or "by the respective parser functions on the back-end, depending where you are reading this page), respectively for an optimal user-experience, and to just create the form in a "programmatic" and at the same time simple way without the need to create the interface itself using, namely, a tool like "Google form".

Conversely, "CI forms" have been inspired by Wikiversity's this extension at Wikiversity and they diverge from it, apart the feature above, mainly because the submitted data are sent to the provided email address, rather than used to compute a score.

Here is an overview of the available options and they way to use it.

Form with inputs

A form can be created through a template like the following:

{{#CI form: 
title = Contact form
| submit = support@culturaitaliana.org
| first and last name [] *
| email [email] *
| your message [textarea] *
}}

which produces the following result

Contact form

first and last name *

email *

your message *

form protected using Google recaptcha

where the double square brackets represent an input (if empty the input type is assumed to be 'text' otherwise it can be any of 'password', 'textarea', 'email', 'search', 'tel', 'file', 'number', 'url', 'time', 'date') the asterisk a mandatory field, and the pipe is of course used to separate rows.

But a CI form template (precisely a 'parser function') can be also used to display inputs with placeholders, like the following:

{{#CI form: title = Contact form
| submit = support@culturaitaliana.org
| [first name] *
| [last name] *
| [email=email] *
}}

Contact form

form protected using Google recaptcha

(note that the field label is placed with the input symbol itself)

Form with multiple choice questions

multiple choice questions with arbitrary input fields among answers

{{#CI form: title = Why do you want to learn Italian?
| type = multiple choice  | list-type = letters | max answers = 2
| I want to work using Italian language 
| I want to study using Italian language 
| Cultural interest / personal knowledge 
| interpersonal relationships [] *
| prospective stay in Italy 
}}

Why do you want to learn Italian?

1. I want to work using Italian language
2. I want to study using Italian language
3. Cultural interest / personal knowledge
4. interpersonal relationships *
5. prospective stay in Italy

form protected using Google recaptcha

and even Cloze (completion) test with inline suggestions like the following:

{{#CI form: title = Metti i verbi al futuro semplice
| type = cloze test 
| * Vedo, vedo... che tra poco [incontrare=incontrerai] l'uomo della tua vita
| Vedo, vedo... che [avere] una grande vincita al gioco
| Questa carta mi dice che [vincere] il concorso che hai appena fatto
| Quest'altra carta mi dice che [sposarsi] al massimo entro tre anni
| Ah, qui vedo che [fare] un viaggio molto interessante
| Qui vedo che [andare] ad abitare in un'altra citta'
}}

Metti i verbi al futuro semplice

1. Vedo, vedo... che tra poco (incontrare) incontrerai l'uomo della tua vita
2. Vedo, vedo... che (avere) una grande vincita al gioco
3. Questa carta mi dice che (vincere) il concorso che hai appena fatto
4. Quest'altra carta mi dice che (sposarsi) al massimo entro tre anni
5. Ah, qui vedo che (fare) un viaggio molto interessante
6. Qui vedo che (andare) ad abitare in un'altra citta'

form protected using Google recaptcha

where the asterisk denotes an example answer (conversely than a mandatory field in the 'inputs' type) and the square brackets in each row denote inline suggestions, (conversely than the field type in the 'inputs' type)

Form with Cloze tests

Cloze test with framed suggestions like the following

Completa con i tempi dati al futuro semplice

impararefareandareimpararefaresvegliarsi

1. Quando andrò in pensione (fare) farò una crociera
2. l'inglese
3. in palestra
4. jogging tutti i giorni
5. a ballare il tango
6. tardi la mattina

form protected using Google recaptcha

Nested form sections

and which finally are flexible enough to allow nested form sections of different kind, like in the following example:

Enrollment test

first name *

last name *

email *

Why do you want to learn Italian?

1. I want to work using Italian language
2. I want to study using Italian language
3. Cultural interest / personal knowledge
4. interpersonal relationships *
5. prospective stay in Italy

What is your profession / background ?

• I'm a student or scholar
• I'm an employee
• I'm a professional or manager
• other *

Do you have any experience of learning Italian language?

• I haven't experience yet
• Few personal attempts
• I have taken private lessons during *
• I have attended classes during *

form protected using Google recaptcha

where the form is built using the following model:

{{#CI form: 
title = Enrollment test 
| submit = support@culturaitaliana.org
|

{{#CI form section: type = inputs
| first name [] *
| last name [] *
| email [email] *
}}

{{#CI form section: ... }}

... [additional 'CI form sections']

}}

List of parameters

attribute	scope	description
type	CI form or CI section	type of form or section: "inputs", "multiple choice" or "cloze test"
title	CI form or CI section	form or section title
submit	CI form	email address to which the filled-in form will be dispatched
success message	CI form	the message displayed after submission of the form if the form has been correctly sent
error message	CI form	the message displayed after submission of the form if there was any issue sending the form
suggestions	CI form or CI section with type "cloze test"	list of comma separated words to be used as a reference to complete the various answers and shown in a box above the answers
list-type	CI form or CI section with type "multiple choice questions"	the list type of the answers, can be "none", "ordered", "unordered", "letters", "number", or whatever value listed here
max answers	CI form or CI section with type "multiple choice questions"	maximum number of answers