New Quizzes Advanced Cell Properties Needs to Allow Different 4 Sides Different Borders, Colors and Backgrounds for Fill in the Blank Quiz

[SeeboldTeaches]

I am a middle school teacher.  I would like to have the table function mirror what I am used to using in word processing applications.  I want to be able to change the four sides of a cell within a table to have different widths of border and different colors of border.  At times, I may want no border at all on one or more sides of the border.  I also want to fill the table section with color.  I want to be able to do this specifically in new quizzes so that I can use the table format within the fill in the blank quiz format to create self-grading quizzes using fill in the blank where students complete a calculation.  My students use Chromebooks.  So, this needs to work in a Chrome environment.  I am not HTML or CSS savy.  I have read through the current Canvas Community literature and most I cannot follow.  I just need tables to work with style formatting in an easy-to-use method for a teacher.  I have jpg's attached that show an examples of what I am seeking.  In the jpg you will see gray borders that emulate graph paper and black borders that indicate lines drawn under (or around) the standard multiplication algorithm indicating the answer area.  Some jpg have colored cells.

The end result that I am looking for is a self-grading quiz (using fill in the blank) where students can enter numeric values in a mathematics algorithm structured in a table format.  This is my attempt to have a work around to popular self-grading worksheet using applications.

[Ron_Bowman]

@SeeboldTeaches -

I think it is possible to do, but it will be somewhat hard to explain in words.  It would be ideal if someone could sit down and explain/show it to you.

However, since that is not possible, here are some things to try:

1) in word, create the table with the formatting, shading of cells whatever you want.
2) click on the + sign on that table to select the table and use ctrl-c to copy it.
3) go over to the fill in the blank question quiz problem description and type ctrl-v to paste it
(note I did this and what I had in word copied over - different borders and colors of shading in cells
4) now edit the table in the question by putting in your knowns and the unknowns
The above worked for me as shown in the bottom table of the picture.  the middle table was the first attempt of pasting in from word and the top one was created in Canvas itself.  For the top table, I modified table properties and  cell properties from the editor.  One thing to note is what happens to the row height with the boxes cells that require an answer(I did not put any in the bottom table - just checking shading and formatting)

For the top table, I had advanced table properties of cell spacing 6, cell padding 6, border 5,  then for the two cells I had advanced cell properties of border style - grooved, border color pink, background yellow,  and then solid, red and blue for the other one.

You will just have to play around with it to do exactly what you want.

Ron

[SeeboldTeaches · Accepted solution]

I want to thank you for responding in such detail.  I am definitely working on this.  I agree that I have to play with it and figure out how to identify the areas for fill in.  Thank you.