> What is desired is that the instructor can enter something like:
>
> <some text and code cells explaining a concept>
>
> <a question in a text cell>
>
> <a space for the student to answer>
>
> Currently, the last two things can be:
>
> Explain the red blob in the picture
>
> <blank code cell for the student>
>
> or
>
> Explain the red blob in the picture
>
> Double-click to enter your answer
>
> but then when the student double-clicks the "Double-click" line, it
> opens up a TinyMCE text cell that includes the question and the answer.
>
> So it seems like having the ability to have consecutive text cells would
> help solve the issue.  Then the instructor could say "Double-click to
> enter your answer", and the double-click would only open the "answer"
> text cell.  Additionally, we could have multiple types of text cells.  
> The instructor could insert a dynamic always-editable text field as a
> text cell, that would be saved on blur (i.e., when a user left the
> cell).  This would basically be like a code cell for an answer, but
> would be a text cell instead.

I think this latter thing is really what the request is asking for as
an option.

> So I'd vote for turning this feature request into a request for a way to
> have consecutive text cells saved in a worksheet as separate text
> cells.  This would probably involve a worksheet format change.
>

It would be helpful to still have the option to join two text cells,
though - sometimes there are a lot of (empty) text cells that it's
hard to join up again without something like this, and it looks weird.

It's too bad this is probably relatively difficult to implement.

- kcrisman

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