Currently cannot mark answers correct on a graded survey's multiple choice questions?

[CallieSchoolKit]

Please see the screenshot attached. I've created a graded survey, with the intention of students being marked as complete for submitting it, not based on their answer choices.

I do have some multiple choice questions where I'd like to mark the correct and incorrect answers, so when I pull data afterwards, I can see where their gaps in understanding are.

For some reason, there's nothing for me to click on the make the multiple choice answers correct or incorrect. Help?

[chriscas · Accepted solution]

Hi @CallieSchoolKit,

You are correct that in Classic Quizzes, you cannot mark anything "correct" when you select the survey mode.  I guess in general, the survey is meant to collect some information, but not necessarily say that something is right or wrong.  Basically the grade is just meant to be whether they did the survey or not.  I wonder if providing feedback outside of the quiz, like with a PDF or an announcement or something, might be a workaround, even though it's not elegant?

-Chris

[andersk47]

Is there a way to create a graded survey in New Quizzes? 

[JOapostropheH]

I was having the same problem. In particular, I noticed that Canvas still keeps track of a "right" and "wrong" answer for the Survey Statistics. If you change the quiz type to "Graded Quiz", you can update the correct answers. When you change the quiz type back to "Graded Survey", it will internally remember which answers were marked correct but the ability to change which answers are considered correct will be removed, and it won't display the correct answer in the quiz editor. However, it will display the correct answer in the statistics.