These cards are working on my computer (Anki desktop, Mac) but they are not updating to Anki mobile or for other users of the same profile.
I create these cards for my English students; they work well on my Anki desktop but not at all on my Anki mobile, or on my students’ devices.
On my Anki desktop, the front of these cards looks like a conventional type-in-the-answer, even though I have created them using the Cloze function (so that I can easily create multiple type-in-the-answer cards for one sentence). The back shows the answer and the Audio and Extra Notes, if I add them.
When my students and I view these cards elsewhere than in my Anki desktop where they were originally created, the FRONT of the card is just a blank screen that says “Type in the answer” at the top, and the back of the card shows the sentence with the answer bolded in blue (as usual for the back of a Cloze card) and the audio.
Can anyone help me figure out what is going on and how to fix this?
At the front side you need and at lest one field which has no type in it:
{{cloze:Text}}
{{type:cloze:Text}}
Older versions of Anki, prior to a change affecting the type in cards would work whereas most recent versions won’t. I cannot recall in which version that was introduced.
If your issue persist, please provide a sreenshot of your HTML view of the Text Field. (in order to see that window: browser view, clock on a card, select the Text field and then the more option button (like 3 horizontal lines) and edit HTML option).
Just tried with multiple clozes and is also working. Can you share your template view? (the one I shared)
Perhaps is unrelated, you have a slash in the notetype name Cloze/Type… , sometimes they are problematic. Try to rename it just to discard one possibility.
Edit: just tested the add-on myself. you’re using the add-on that’s why you can view your cards on pc but they’re blank on AnkiMobile/AnkiDroid.
Here’s how your cards will look like on pc if you use the settings that i gave you + the add-on.
mmdj2:
I wasn’t able to successfully download that add-on, so I just changed the text on the front card template to {{type:close:Text}} and it looked like it was working at first.
When I made the above change (adding “type:” to the Front template text), I did it from the Cloze template, not the basic (type in answer).
These seemed to be working at first… The problem seems to have arisen when I added fields (Audio and Extra Notes) to the back.
My goal here is to create multiple type-in-the-answer cards using the Cloze deletion function (this is much faster!) and to have the audio and extra notes appear on the back of the cards.
Thanks so much to both of you for helping! And please forgive me - as you can see, I know nothing about all of this, so please let me know if there is extra information that I can provide.
Is this as good as it’s going to get? Should I just be satisfied with this and encourage my students to use these cards in the mobile version and/or just ignore the extra question on desktop, or is there some way to have these appear only as a “type in answer” card on desktop, even if they’ve been created using the Cloze template?
the cards will look normal on your students’ desktops.
go to Tools -> add-ons and disable Fill the blanks - Multiple type:cloze support. then restart anki, the cards will look normal on desktop if you do this.
To both you and Guillem, thank you very, very much for your help - I really appreciate it and I’m really excited to use these cards with my students : )
