Case sensitive answers in a quiz

[cheeren]

This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas

When giving a quiz, I would like to see the option to require that an answer have a capital letter. For example, in a fill in he blank question a teacher may be looking for the name of a particular state. The student is required to answer 'California' but if they answer 'california', it is marked correctly. I would like to see the option to require an answer to be case sensitive.

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[Renee_Carney]

 @cheeren ​

We can move this idea forward for voting.

You will want to also follow Canvas Studio: Modern Quizzing Engine​ and watch a preview at Canvas Focus Group: Quizzes​

[nikolina_petrov]

I just worked with a Social Studies teacher and showed her the Fill in the Blank and Fill in Multiple Blanks options.

As we discovered that Canvas accepted lower case and capital case letters for names of locations and cities she did not like the idea at all!  In addition, she did not want to use Canvas Quizzes. She said that she might consider using it if there was an option to where she can pick the case sensitive answer --- which is exactly what this feature idea is all about!!!!

You've got my vote!

[catherine_uvaro]

I'm a chemistry instructor and I'd like case-sensitive input!

Co = cobalt

CO = carbon monoxide

Very different things... capitalization matters.

[Renee_Carney]

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[Renee_Carney]

This idea will remain in the open voting forum as an idea related to Priority: Quizzes.Next‌

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[ronmarx]

I understand that a regex (regular expressions) feature would satisfy this request. I hope I remember seeing that regex is on the product radar for #quizzes.next_new‌.

[dmalik]

Echo the need to optionally enforce capitalization or not. Co is fine for the periodic table, but maybe in another course it doesn't matter. Perhaps as an option in open ended questions.

[mfernandez]

I give a vocabulary quiz every week. Two of the words are capitalized. I have been doing these quizzes for over a year on Canvas and never even thought about checking because I thought an EXACT answer had to be put in. It was not until a chemistry teacher with this issue even made me question my quizzes. If we want our high school students to score well on standardized tests and college placement tests, we cannot give them the wrong idea about exact grammatical issues. A scorer might see that they have a capital letter used wrong and ding that person for mechanical errors, thus eliminating them from consideration. Yes, this is overly dramatic, but it could happen.

[mastersj]

Is this idea still open? It's very important to me that this change is made. I teach Computer Science and part of what I teach my students is proper naming conventions. For questions about this, capitalization matters! "numbers" might be a right answer while "Numbers" is not following convention, and is incorrect! There is no way to auto-grade this.

[Renee_Carney]

This idea has been developed and is On Canvas Beta Quizzes LTI User Group 

This feature is now available through the new Quizzes LTI tool.  Find more information on the Quizzes LTI tool, and how to access it, at Quizzes LTI User Group 

This feature of the Quizzes LTI tool is found in most of the 'create a question' guides, under the section header: select text match