Partial Credit on Categorization and Ordering Questions

[arnold_cassie]

I found posts regarding this from WAYYYY back in 2018, and they've been marked "completed" because you implemented partial credit for the matching questions, but the categorization and ordering questions STILL don't allow for partial credit 5 years later. I would like to set this up at the beginning of a quiz, not retroactively award the points, because for younger kids (elementary and middle school), seeing the lower grade at the beginning can be problematic. I was told this was on the road map years ago, but it still hasn't happened, so I wanted to post something to make sure it is still in your preview since the other discussion boards regarding this subject are closed and wouldn't let me add to them. 

Cassie

[greydon]

Hello @arnold_cassie 

There will be improved grading capabilities coming soon and there's some general outlining in the roadmap:

https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/New-Quizzes-Hub/ct-p/new_quizzes_hub

However, there's nothing explicitly stated regarding categorization grading for partial credit.

Feel free to check out the Ideas and Themes forum as Canvas implements great ideas such as this that they find within the community. 

https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Ideas-and-Themes/ct-p/canvas-ideas-themes?tab=identified 

[jwheeler2]

I teach college and find the need for partial credit on categorization and ordering on every test I make. 

[pchessmore]

I agree it is needed.

We have lab tech instructors who want to use both to order the tube colors properly and then to categorize the microscope reading with the correct conclusion. 

As soon as they found out there was no partial credit, we started over using other (non-helping) question types. 

[kevatron5000]

It is, in fact, absurd that this question type exists and partial credit is not already built into it. I can't even fathom how that happened, let alone how it is that this many years later it still isn't fixed. 

[KimberlyChrist1]

This is such a waste.  Either FIX the issue or take out the wasted question type.  With all the already wasted time on Canvas by making 300000000000000000000 clicks to do anything.  Now I have to waste time regrading stuff that should already be graded AND rewriting that question so that I don't have to regrade 5th periods quiz.  So annoying. 

[JEANNEBOSTWICK]

I take it by the lack of response from CANVAS that they aren't going to address this issue & I need to not use this question type. I agree with the above statements. I can't understand how this question type was created without the option of partial credit! In any education setting, it would be rare that categorization would be all or nothing!

[PatriciaRoy]

I guess I can see why the categorization questions are all or nothing -- if not, students could pick random responses and be likely to receive some points for knowing nothing at all. I think the idea is either they know how the pieces fit together or they don't. Perhaps some concepts should be addressed by a battery of questions rather than just one. 

[arnold_cassie]

Patricia,

As a former science teacher, here would be an example of a categorization question I would ask my students. Categorize the following as either Biotic or Abiotic. Say they put one response as abiotic when it was biotic but got all the others right. Why would I want the student penalized for not classifying just one response correctly when they got the other nine options correct? It seems like a huge penalization for an 8th grader.

Yes, I COULD do this as a multiple-choice style, but getting the opportunity to do question types like this helps them practice for the types of questions they can see in our state assessments. Plus, as an instructor, it's less work for me to do one question worth 10 points. 

This is why I would like to see partial grading on these question types. 

[JEANNEBOSTWICK]

This is 100% the type of application that is useful to me as a question type, which is why partial credit as an option would be amazing. This question type also requires students to think about the information a little differently and often better than a sequence of questions in isolation. The option to chose all or nothing or partial credit could allow the teacher to use the question type in a way that is relevant for what they are assessing the students on.