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Hi @Brady Boswell​ ,

It is possible using the Short Answer question type. Written Response types have no method to automate evaluation.

After typing in the question, Select the Regular Expression (RegEx) Grading type. This grading option allows you to grade a character or word match from within the sentence used (i.e. If correct answer is Happy, then RegEx could be used to find "happy" within the sentence "because i am happy, happy, happy).

To essentially select 'any character response' as correct (i.e *%_abcd...1234) then you could use [\W\w] as the RegEx which matches any word and non word character (Read more here: https://documentation.brightspace.com/EN/le/question_library/instructor/regular_expressions.htm)

Use just \w if you want to mark as correct any typical word character (i.e. AaBbCc inc. underscore... or a number 01234)

I hope this helps.