[ARCHIVED] How do you assign partial credit on fill in the blank?

[aschroer]

How do you assign partial credit on Canvas quizzes?

I teach Spanish and use the "fill multiple blanks" option often for students to type in a vocab word or a verb conjugation. I usually take off only 1 point for a missing accent mark, but I cannot find a way to assign partial points for different answers which is very problematic.

[stuart_ryan]

Hi  @aschroer ,

I wanted to check in as I noted that your question seems to have the community a little stumped. Were you able to find an answer to your question possibly through some of your own additional sleuthing?

If you found a solution that solved this, it would be great to hear from you how you did (as this will help anyone else that finds your question in future).
 
Cheers,
Stuart 

[lglen]

I teach math. I have an early-in-the-term quiz lined up in which I want students to answer "(x,y,z)" for full points. If they answer "x,y,z" or "xyz" I want to award 8 or 7 points respectively. My quiz is one question with one correct and two partially correct answers...

[James · Accepted solution]

In the legacy version of quizzes, you cannot assign separate point values to individual answers with any of the quiz types, so it is not possible to automatically award points this way. You should put in the right answer and then manually check each student's answer and give points for those who have partially correct answers.

With Quizzes.Next, you can assign different point values for multiple choice questions, but not for fill in the blank questions.

[MsKingly]

Has Canvas done anything to address this flaw in Fill in the Blank responses in the past 4 years?

[cindyk]

I'm also interested in this question.  I'm moving to personalized learning.  I really like the auto-grading feature of quizzes (and I allow multiple retakes to give students many opportunities to gain mastery).  However, multiple choice is not a good fit when mastery is the goal, not guess and check.  At this time, we are not using outcomes in Canvas as they do not sync to our SIS.

One type of assignment I use has differentiated levels.  I can create a series of fill in the blank questions and enter the correct answer for any of the associated assignments.  However, not every assignment has the same number of questions and I need to weight each response differently based on which version of the assignment is done by the student.  And I would ideally want to add in extra credit, not just pure percentage reporting of scores.  If I create multiple versions in Canvas the students think they have to complete all of the assignments, not just one.  Mastery paths are not feasible since they also do not sync to our SIS, nor do they appear on the student to do list with due dates.

If I really think outside the box, it would be great if I could create a responsive quiz - choose this answer on a question to determine the next question.  That would be super useful for differentiating as well.