Student Choice
There have been a lot of links to students' success and their ability to choose certain assignments or questions that allow them to demonstrate mastery more on their terms.
It would be great if Canvas had features like this where assignments could be linked through a "decision tree" so that students could have options on which they would like to choose. I understand you can lump all the choices into the same assignment, but that doesn't work if you want students to be able to choose between a multiple choice test and an essay test (that goes through TurnItIn.com). Further, it can be very cluttered and difficult for students to navigate if you have 4 or 5 different assignments built inside one Canvas assignment.
In this same vein, it would be great if the Quizzes feature had settings for student choice, so students could choose which short answer/essay questions they would like to respond to. Again, a sort of decision tree that instructs them to, for instance, "Choose 3 of the 5 short answer questions you believe you can answer best."
This idea also really helps when you have students "jigsaw" or read different texts from their classmates. This way a Quiz can include questions from multiple areas of content but students choose to answer only the questions that covered their specific content area.
Thanks for your time,
Tom Scheip, Cardinal Mooney High School
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