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There should be an option that teachers can turn on to allow students to input answers in standard form. There could be two input fields: one for the number and the second for the exponent, e.g..
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This idea was indirectly developed through "Numerical Answer with Precision"
This Feature Idea is now Complete!
For more information on the release of this feature, and others, please review the Canvas Production Release Notes (2015-10-31)
Thank you to Mark Hurwitz for submitting Allow scientific notation (E format) in numerical answers. Also, Thanks to Peter Nickson and Elizabeth Van Horn for your submissions of Numerical & formula - standard form and decimal option for numerical test answers which were completed as part of this feature.
Additional thanks to idea contributors Milton Johnston, Justin Zemlyak, Scott Finkeldei, Kona Jones, Douglas De Boer, Victoria Green, Abrar Shaukat and James Jones for your valuable input! Your investment in this idea helped refine a feature which is now part of the Canvas!