Partial Credit for Multiple Choice Questions

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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas

It is sometimes nice to be able to assign partial credit for multiple choice questions.

Example:

Which musicians were members of The Who in the 1970s?

A) Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, Elton John, John Entwistle     (worth .75)

B) Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, Keith Moon, John Entwistle    (worth 1)

C) Pete Seeger, Roger Daltrey, Elton John, John McCartney         (worth .5)

D) Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Ronnie Wood         (worth 0)

Comments from Instructure

This idea was completed with general availability of Quizzes.Next.  You can find more information about the overall project in the Quizzes.Next User Group.‌

• Quizzes.Next is now available for all paid accounts.
• Quizzes.Next documentation will live in the Quizzes.Next User Group until July 14, 2018. On July 14, 2018, all of the documentation will be moved to the Canvas Guides in the Canvas Instructor Guide or Canvas Student Guide. 
• Quizzes.Next updates will be included in the Canvas Release Notes. This includes new features, updated features, and relevant fixed bugs. New and updated features will be deployed to Quizzes.Next near the same time as the Canvas release. Fixed bugs may be deployed at any time.

[larkek]

I am also a nursing instructor and the licensing exam does NOT allow partial credit for select all that apply questions. It is a disservice to our students to allow partial credit on exams.

The current format is both time consuming and burdensome.

We need to regrade every test and students see an artificially high score with partial credit. We now mute the exams, but that causes anxiety while they wait for their grade. 

The industry standard is "all or nothing". Why does Canvas have a differerent standard?

[Renee_Carney]

This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas 

This idea was completed with general availability of Quizzes.Next.  You can find more information about the overall project in the Quizzes.Next User Group.‌

• Quizzes.Next is now available for all paid accounts.
• Quizzes.Next documentation will live in the Quizzes.Next User Group until July 14, 2018. On July 14, 2018, all of the documentation will be moved to the Canvas Guides in the Canvas Instructor Guide or Canvas Student Guide. 
• Quizzes.Next updates will be included in the Canvas Release Notes. This includes new features, updated features, and relevant fixed bugs. New and updated features will be deployed to Quizzes.Next near the same time as the Canvas release. Fixed bugs may be deployed at any time.