[ARCHIVED] Is it possible to allow multiple attempts on a quiz, with diminishing points after the first attempt?

[lease]

I would like to give students a second attempt at a quiz, but I would like to impose a "penalty" for the second attempt. For example, the student might get 80% (or 75% or 90%) of the points earned on the second attempt. Is this possible to set up so that it is automatic and not a manual adjustment I would have to make?

[kona · Accepted solution]

 @lease , greetings! As cool as this sounds, about the best you can in Canvas is to have it keep the most recent score, average, or top score on a quiz. 

Kona

[lease]

Thanks, Kona. That is what the options looked like to me. Maybe Canvas will add that feature sometime in the fairly near future. I have seen that option before. I thought maybe it was in Moodle. I guess it isn't impossible for Moodle to do something better than Canvas, but I suspect it was probably in MyLab from Pearson. Making the students pay lots of money brings additional options.

[baldwinsh]

I have a faculty member who would like students to have multiple attempts at a quiz, but for the percentage earned to go down with each attempt. But only for the line item that had to be redone.

For instance, if there were five questions on the test and the student answered 1 and 3 and 4 correctly, but didn't answer 2 and 5 correctly so the student retook the test and got 1, 2, 3, and 4 answered correctly, so retook the test and got got all of the questions answered correctly, the quiz score would look like this:

Full points for questions 1, 3, and 4 because they were answered correctly on the first attempt; 80% of the points for question 2 because it was answered correctly on the second attempt; and 60% of the points for question 5 because it was answered correctly on the 3rd attempt.

Other than manually adjusting points, is this something that Canvas could consider creating in the future?

[rexj]

We are currently evaluating Canvas as a successor to Moodle. Moodle does support this strategy (Adaptive mode). We have at least one instructor who makes heavy use of it.  It would be great if Canvas implemented something like this.