[New Quizzes] Partial Credit for "Matching", "Categorization", and "Sorting" question types in Quizzes.Next tool

[pete0708]

Comments from Instructure

The  Canvas Release Notes (2022-01-15) includes partial credit options for matching questions in New Quizzes. Please refer to  New Quizzes: Partial Credit for Matching Questions .

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The Quizzes.Next assignment questions type "Categorization", "Matching", and "Sorting" currently don't allow for partial credit to be given.  In order to pacify my students and to give credit were credit is due I'm currently manually adjusting the scores on these questions. Very tedious!

Thus, I would appreciate if the Canvas team would add the option for partial credit to added to these three assignment question types.

E.G.:
if a question has 2 categories and a total of 10 points, a student that would answers one of the two categories correctly would get 5 points.
if a "Sorting" question has 5 sort items and 10 points overall, a student that sorts 3 out of the 5 items correctly would receive 6 points (3/5*10)

if a "Matching" question has 3 items and 10 points overall, a student that would get 2 out of the 3 items matched correctly would receive 6.67 points (2/3 * 10)

PS: this link brings you to the Canvas FAQ page that documents the current status of this issue:
https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-12076#jive_content_id_Is_there_partial_points_grading_for_i... 

[kristin_barr]

This is absolutely needed - it's one of the feature of Classic Quizzes that has my teachers sticking with them as long as they can.

[TammyGooden]

Can we get partial credit for matching, multiple answer, and ordering type questions on new quizzes?

[rgong1]

This semester I am shifting all my question banks back to classic quizzes. I can't use the new quizzes until this issue is resolved. 

[sarawells]

Agree with the previous posts. My institution is going back to Classic Quizzes until New Quizzes are addressed. We can't use them for assessment in their present format.

[cejones]

Everyone wants this functionality, and yet Canvas says and does nothing.  It is puzzling:

Why wasn't partial credit included right off the bat? 

What hasn't it been added in the years since?

Does the New Quizzes software have some flaw that makes it impossible to implement the extremely basic functionality of partial credit? 

Has Canvas fired their software people, or do they pay them so little that they've all quit? 

This whole situation is baffling.

[cindyk]

Partial credit is so obvious a need.  I want to use categorization, ordering, and matching questions.  The first two are not an option in classic quizzes.  The all or nothing approach does not build student confidence, nor is it particularly helpful when I want to give automated feedback and have students try again.

[jmattern]

@cejones I think New Quizzes can handle this functionality; if you look at the "multiple answers" (i.e. select all that apply) question type, there is a option to award "partial credit with penalty" or an all-or-nothing option.  The fact that this hasn't been applied to these other question types (after three years) is baffling.

I've been Canvas's biggest proponent at my school for years, but the last year or so has left me pretty disappointed in Canvas.

[DrDMiller]

Yes! I don't understand why New Quizzes keeps taking away the features that were so useful in the regular old quizzes. It's this lack of features that keeps me from using New Quizzes

[JeffLoats]

Yes. Please.
I was excited about categorization and now I have to a) regrade questions by hand, b) abandon categorization as a question type.

[cejones]

@jmattern  Thanks for the tip!  But I was hoping for a third option, which would be to score points for correct answers and no penalty for wrong answers in the multiple answer option.  This would be consistent with how the rest of the quiz questions work and thus avoids student irritation at the sting of an unexpected penalty.

I realize that this means that someone could just select ALL answers to score full points, but with sparing use of  multiple answer questions I think very few students would figure this out.