A short answer question uses a text box where you can type in a word or words for an answer. Many questions of this type will ask for a student to fill in a blank or choose from a list of key words. The submission has to match exactly with the answer on record. However, these questions do have more than one correct answer.
When creating a short answer question there are three parts: the Question Body, Explanation, and an Answer phrase.
The Question Body is the main content of the question, whatever question you want to ask and the information needed to answer it should go here.
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The Explanation appears after the solution's viewable date has passed on an assignment and the student has either correctly answered the question or exhausted all answer attempts.
Be careful when filling in the Question Body and Explanation sections! There is both a space and character limit, so adding large/many images or a lot of text will overflow the question. If you're needing a longer question, consider a Numerical TeX type question.
The Answer phrase is the input you want the student to use for the correct answer. Things like spelling, leaving out spaces, or writing out the word of a number when the system expects a numeric value (i.e. "four" as opposed to "4") or vice versa will all result in an incorrect submission. However, these questions are not case sensitive, so students do not have to worry about capitalization in their answer.
Once you have finished filling in the content of the question, you will need to save the draft by clicking the button at the bottom of the page. After you do so the option to Publish the question will appear at the top. A question is not usable on an assignment until it has been published. Publishing a question also prevents any edits.