[ARCHIVED] How to apply the Multiplicator or Offset options in a Quizz?

[IsmaelDabo]

Dear All,

Can you tell me if there is a way to address the marks of a Quiz in the Gradebook and apply an Offset or Multiplicator option? 

I will give a bit of a context/scenario:

If I set up a quiz (or new quiz) with 4 questions with 20 marks for each but the students are only required to answer 3 (giving them a choice to answer the questions they prefer), Canvas still address the total of points as an 80 marks' total instead of 60 marks. Even if I set the quiz with 60 marks in the Settings, Canvas will still sum it up over 4 questions and not over the 3 questions required. Other VLEs such as Moodle have the Multiplicator and an Offset feature in the Gradebook to allow the results to be accurate and reflect the students' final scores.

I know of the Fudge points' option to add or remove marks but the setup is a laborious process and not feasible if you have a massive cohort of students.

Can anyone give me some advice on how to proceed? 

[Ron_Bowman · Accepted solution]

@IsmaelDabo -

I understand what you want to do.  I do not know of anyway in New or classic quizzes to do what you want.  I had a weird idea, but I tried it out in new quizzes and it did not work.

I believe you are going to be out of luck with the current configuration of the Canvas Quiz engines.

[dbernert]

One option is to create a new column in the grade book for the quiz as an assignment, identify an adjusted point total you want for the assignment (quiz), and then copy the students' scores into the new column. Then set the quiz to not count in the total points for the class and hide that column. This is a ridiculous option I've used for a simple Canvas fix of allowing users to determine the number of points for a quiz. That is an option in the Blackboard software.

[Ron_Bowman]

@dbernert -

Yes that is a possibility.  I believe there are other issues with what @IsmaelDabo wants.  What happens if a student answers all 4 questions instead of just 3 - how do you account for that scenario with the grading - now it is not just a simple copy the grade over to a new assignment.  One thought I had (not a good one) would be an assignment group with 4 quizzes - one for each question.  Then you drop the lowest score out of the group.  However, if the thought is to have them see all 4 questions and then pick the three to answer, that is another headache to consider with 4 separate quizzes.