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11-06-2022
02:34 PM
Since both an absolute or a percent margin of error are provided for an answer that is displayed as a decimal, this must also be provided for a response that is formatted in scientific notation.
In keeping with the formatting scheme when the answer is reported as a decimal, I would suggest that the margin type be only set for "absolute" when the answer display is set to scientific notation. If "3 decimal places" were specified for an answer in scientific notation and if the ± margin of error was set for 2 that this would signify that in the 3rd decimal place that the answer could by off by ±2 (e.g., if the answer was 1.864*10^-56, a margin of error of ±2 would mean 1.864*10^-56 ± 0.002*10^- 56).
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11-05-2022
02:22 PM
Under Grading, which appears below the question and choices, there are two options to select from: 🔘 Partial Credit with Penalty 🔘 Exact Match While I haven't tried, I'd venture to guess that if you don't want to give any partial credit you'd select Exact Match.
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11-05-2022
02:21 PM
Under Grading, which appears below the question and choices, there are two options to select from: 🔘 Partial Credit with Penalty 🔘 Exact Match While I haven't tried, I'd venture to guess that if you don't want to give any partial credit you'd select Exact Match.
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10-20-2022
01:29 PM
Unless the answer involves only alphanumeric characters, you won't be able to use Fill in the Blank (FIB) questions. If the following were to be the answer, H<sub>2</sub>O, the question fails to save/update. I hope that the Canvas programers are able to resolve this issue.
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09-07-2022
10:09 AM
I also have hundreds of Item Banks that I'd like to share with colleagues. If you grant colleagues "Can Edit" access then when they make an edit to a question that same question gets edited for me as well. This is crazy. Communal/shared Item Banks are not feasible if you want to maintain the ability to edit only your copy. Please provide an option in which we can click the individual Item Banks that we'd like to export so they can be imported by colleagues in which they'd have these Item Banks "all to themselves" and not be tied to my Item Banks. Just do it ✔︎.
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05-13-2022
06:57 AM
I agree with urbansk6. The ability to have line breaks in Fill in the Blank questions in New Quizzes would be on my wish list. Though a RCE exists in the "upper portion" of the Fill in the Blank Questions, it is not available in the "lower portion". I found a workaround in this limitation, but it'd be great if a RCE existed all the way around.
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04-26-2022
11:43 AM
As a chemistry professor, I'd vote to have a RCE in all types of questions. In certain type of questions (e.g., fill in the blank, matching, categorization) that don't have a RCE I got around not being able to add subscripts nor superscripts by using using "special subscript and superscript fonts" (e.g., H₂O or Cr₂O₇²⁻). If it weren't for these "special fonts" I'd be up a creek without a paddle. Thank goodness for the Character Viewer on my Mac that grants me access to symbols and special subscript and superscript fonts that we need in chemistry (i.e., △ → ⇌ 𝓵 𝞂 𝝺 𝝱 𝝲 𝝳 𝝼, ² ₂ etc.).
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04-26-2022
11:33 AM
As a chemistry professor, I'd vote to have a RCE in all types of questions. In certain type of questions (e.g., fill in the blank, matching, categorization) that don't have a RCE I got around not being able to add subscripts nor superscripts by using using "special subscript and superscript fonts" (e.g., H₂O or Cr₂O₇²⁻). If it weren't for these "special fonts" I'd be up a creek without a paddle. Thank goodness for the Character Viewer on my Mac that grants me access to symbols that we need in chemistry (i.e., △ → ⇌ 𝓵 𝞂 𝝺 𝝱 𝝲 𝝳 𝝼, etc.).
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02-26-2022
08:26 AM
I'd wish that there were 3 options provided in a numeric input.
Choice 1: Only accept the answer in scientific notation. The reason for this would be if the instructor wished to ascertain the ability of a student to write a number in scientific notation (e.g., Write 0.00123 in scientific notation).
Choice 2: Only accept the answer in "decimal/standard notation". The reason for this would be if the instructor wished to ascertain the ability of a student to convert a number written in scientific notation into standard notation (e.g., Write 1.23x10⁻⁴ in standard notation).
Choice 3: Accept the answer in either scientific notation or standard notation when you are not trying to evaluate whether or not a student could write their answer in either type of notation. Choice 3 would address MikelisBickis comment.
Since my Choice 3 is not an option, to circumvent issues with grading, I clearly write in the instructions: Report your answer in standard notation unless otherwise informed.
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01-26-2022
11:44 AM
Great idea if student last activity date were to be included as a column in the Grade Center. Canvas needs to do this ASAP.
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01-23-2022
09:42 AM
I agree that writing 6.02E23 is less convoluted than 6.02*10^23; however, this is a minor point compared to the following:
In chemistry really big (Avogadro's Number, 6.02E23) and really small numbers (solubility product constants - Ksp for bismuth sulfide is 1.6E-72) are routinely used. Thus, it is essential that for formula questions that a wide range of power of tens be allowed and that a +/- margin of error be included for answers reported in scientific notation.
Significant figures are important in chemistry as well and very few LMS programers/decision makers seem to care about the importance of trailing zeros.
Please don't exclude the needs of science/math/engineering faculty that need to impart important concepts to our students.
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01-23-2022
08:42 AM
It is a tremendous oversight that we are not given an option to input a +/- margin of error for numerical answers that are in scientific notation. I hope that it doesn't take loads of complaints for the programers to remedy this oversight.
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