Numerical Answer questions need to allow regrade option

[eprada]

This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas

I would like to re-submit the previously archived feature idea for "Numerical Answer questions need to allow regrade option" from Scott Finkeldei and commented on by Rob Ditto.

This continues to be an issue for my institution, and I believe it may now be able to gather enough votes to proceed to the 'Gathering Information' stage.

"Currently only some question types allow regrading (Multiple Choice, True/False, Multiple Answers - How do I regrade a Quiz? )

Numerical question type (and other types) needs to support regrading.  There are many cases that are simple such as needing to expand the range to accommodate a rounding issue.

Rob Ditto has commented:

In addition to the rounding issue Scott Finkeldei mentioned, our faculty regularly cite real-world needs for Numerical Answer regrading.  Here are two examples:

• With questions involving percentages or probabilities, the author might not remember to enter two versions of the answer: e.g., 97 (meaning 97%) as well as 0.97.
• Similarly, when answers involve units, the teacher or TA might want to count as correct a student's answer expressed in different units -- for example, 0.75 as the equivalent in minutes of 45 seconds.

Automatic regrading allows teachers to be fair to students who give alternate correct answers, avoiding extra time spent using Excel filtering of a Student Analysis .CSV to identify who should be awarded points manually.  The regrading automation originally developed for other question types in 2013 also gives students clear indications that a question was regraded, further benefiting learning.

Others had great contributions as well.  Please vote for this important feature and add your use cases and thoughts"

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[SHEBENE]

Woot! I'm vote 101!

[SHEBENE]

Over the top (just like Sly)

[lyndaw]

Just for the record, ALL quiz questions should support a regrade option. We've just experienced a case where an instructor had to spend 7 hours manually regrading a single question. He pointed out, and I recall it is true, that WebCT could do regrading. So from his perspective Canvas was a step backwards not forwards.

[jsparks]

Hello, Canvas Family! We will explore regrade for a variety of item types in the Canvas Studio: Modern Quizzing Engine​.

[RobDitto]

Awesome news, Deactivated user​! Thanks again to  @eprada  for picking just the right time to resubmit this long-needed idea.

[Renee_Carney]

This idea was moved from Under Consideration stage (no longer in use) to the Product Radar stage.  

This change was made as part of a feature idea process evolution.  Find more information, and contribute insights, by joining Focus Group: DRAFT Feature Idea Space. 

[cgabrielson]

Just to add my 2 cents. My situation is that I also need to regrade because I missed a '/' at the end of an answer as a potential answer to a short-answer question. Can I regrade? Nope. Not sure what to do besides the workarounds (hacks) that teachers who visit the community have posted. I'm re-posting my comment below that I originally put on this related "idea":https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/5491-allow-regrading-of-fill-in-the-blank-questions 

It is actually a function of many LMS' to actually regrade quizzes based on the updated answers. No matter the question type as long as it isn't something like an essay response. Teachers need to do this all the time. It's a part of their job. Moodle shines much brighter than Canvas here and it's open source. Canvas is expensive and should have this basic functionality. No popularity contest for feature additions should be thought of for such things. Teachers work around the problems and don't visit the community. They may not know it exists. They have a job to do using the product that the school voted into use probably thinking such basic functions worked. From my perspective Canvas is broken out of the box because of simple stuff like this. 

[ecm]

It would be good if 97% = .97 in the grading automatically.

Also, 1/2 = .5 = 50% would be great!

[ja46272]

I think this is a very important feature.  I have hundreds of students taking each exam from within Canvas.  To be honest, sometimes I make a mistake in putting the correct answer.  Also, I also encounter the point above where students put a reasonable and correct alternative other than what I put as the correct answer.  Also, some questions require students to use lat/long data which either changes year to year or has some tolerance that I hadn't considered.  If I make a mistake with a question, my only option now involves a very very large amount of manual labor to check all students' scores.

[ja46272]

 don't seem to have access to the link "Modern quizzing engine"  Is this restricted?