
    Design a function for an adaptive learning system that standardizes student responses by replacing all spaces in their submitted text with a designated formatting character to ensure consistent automated assessment. The function should accept the student's text submission and the system's standardization character as inputs, and return the reformatted response that maintains the original content while eliminating spacing variations.
    

    
def replace_blank(str1, char):
    """
    Design a function for an adaptive learning system that standardizes student responses by replacing all spaces in their submitted text with a designated formatting character to ensure consistent automated assessment. The function should accept the student's text submission and the system's standardization character as inputs, and return the reformatted response that maintains the original content while eliminating spacing variations.
    

    """
def replace_blank(str1, char):
    """
    Design a function for an adaptive learning system that standardizes student responses by replacing all spaces in their submitted text with a designated formatting character to ensure consistent automated assessment. The function should accept the student's text submission and the system's standardization character as inputs, and return the reformatted response that maintains the original content while eliminating spacing variations.
    

    """
    str2 = str1.replace(' ', char)
    return str2