[ARCHIVED] Help with Numerical Quiz Questions

[danielleschwinn]

Hello, I was working with a faculty member today who teaches AMDT. He wants to get rid of the zero in numerical quiz decimals as this has an impact on the machines they are working with. For example, if the answer is ".24" Canvas autocorrects to "0.24." This would be incorrect in their case. Does anyone know how to fix this? 

[James]

 @danielleschwinn  

If formatting matters, then use a fill in the blank question instead of a numeric response question.

Canvas isn't using 0.24 or .24, they're the same to it. It has an internal representation of the number. It's displaying it with a leading 0, but that doesn't change the underlying number. In old quizzes, they were displayed with 4 decimals and you would get 0.2400. Again, that doesn't change the number in the comparison to see if it's correct or not.

You need to decide whether the treating it as a number or the formatting is more important and let that decide what type of question you use.

[checkma]

I don't know what application you're using for numerical quizzes, but my institution uses WeBWorK, which allows you to customize how the answer is accepted. It also integrates with Canvas.