If you have a Cloze question with an NM answer and a student answers it with a special character, the special character and anything typed after it will be ignored. This may result in an incorrect answer being marked correct.

For example: If you use

1:NM:=1

The correct answer should be 1.

However, if a student answers with 1/2

The /2 will be ignored and the question is awarded marks.

Commas and periods are not ignored, if used. i.e. 1.5