Why is this marked as solved?
The link provided is to a discussion by people upset at the ridiculous decision to make Matching all-or-nothing from 2 years go. They haven't done anything to make matching work correctly in this time (I am an instructional designer and the current marking scheme is quite simply wrong!)
I also think that calling this "partial credit" is wrong. There seems to be a confusion in Canvas as of what is a question and what is an exercise. A question is a single item, an exercise is multiple items. Matching contains multiple items, so it is an exercise. Each item in an exercise should be awarded marks independent of the other items. My other gripe about the way they have realised matching is that for teaching in particular it should be a one to one match. Once an item has been matched it should no loner be available for other matches. This approach encourages discovery learning and better reflects the way matching used to be done in the classroom with cut up bits of paper. It means that a student can approach the exercise by completing the answers they are sure of, thus narrowing down the choices for the items they are unsure of. There seems to be very little pedagogy put into the design of these exercises.
I am losing patience with Canvas in so many ways!
