How to award partial credit for fill in the blank questions

[DavidAldrich]

I am new to Canvas. I came over from Moodle. In Moodle, you can add multiple possible answers and say what percent of full credit they are awarded. For example, if I ask to give the word for "yes" in Spanish, I can say that "Sí" is 100% correct and "Si" is 50% correct because they did not use the accent. 

Is there a way to do that in Canvas?

Thank you for the help

[Chris_Hofer]

Hi @DavidAldrich ...

If you are using the New Quizzes interface within your Canvas course, one of the question types you might be able to use is Multiple Choice questions.  You can specify your answer choices with different numbers of points possible.  So, for example, if you had a question like:

How do you say "yes" in Spanish?

• Sí = 10 points
• Si = 5 points

Would something like this work for your needs?  How do I create a Multiple Choice question in New Quizzes?

[DavidAldrich]

That doesn't work as I need to know if they know how to say yes, not if they can identify the word yes. It is a different skill from a language learning point of view. Another example would be to say "How's it going?" the student should respond, "¿Qué tal?. As you can see, a student could respond "Qué tal?" and they have the concept correct but made one small grammar error. As I currently see it. Canvas makes me mark it all or nothing. I can't use a multiple choice questions because then I am giving the answer and the student only has to recognize it, not produce it.

Thanks for the suggestion though.