This article covers the Legacy editor. Lessons built in the New editor work differently. To ask for a short answer in the New editor, see Asking for short answers in a lesson. New to the difference between the two? Start with The new lesson experience.

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Open the lesson from My Library. The Legacy editor shows the lesson as a list of blocks, with the Outline down the left.

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Click Add block at the bottom of the Outline.

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Choose Free Response. Its description in the dialog reads "Students write an open-ended answer".

Fill in the block, then Click Save when you are done.

You can reorder blocks by dragging them in the Outline, and delete one from its own menu.

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