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First, thanks @langlangcat for the suggestion of the Javascript. Unfortunately, that's out of the scope of what I have to work with at OSU. That being said, one of my video colleagues noted that they have used our blog site/application to host images and that this might be able to be accomplished using that. Due to the sheer number of images, it was impossible to host them in Canvas. The process: We uploaded images to folders named for the individual plants (image files do not contain the name of the plant) in the instructor's media library on the blog site. We then created question banks in Canvas with the same names used in the media library. We then created generic MC questions: What is this plant? The title of the question, of course, had the plant name and disease (this was a ton of work and many thanks went to the TAs that did the work).  Each question needed html code to direct to a specific plant image living in a folder on the blog site: <p> <img src="https://u.osu.edu/matthias.5/files/2020/11/ladysthumb-Polygonum-persicaria-32-1.jpg" /> </p> The faculty then created quizzes with multiple attempts that included pulling a certain number of questions from each plant type he wanted in the quiz from the question banks that were created. While this solution was not perfect with not having students get the same image twice across several attempts taking the quiz, due to the sheer number of images the instructor had for a given plant and plant disease, the odds of a student getting the same view of a plant across multiple attempts was very slim.  Proposed solution accepted by the instructor.  ... View more

Chris, thanks for the nudge. Mark's answer will work for the time being. The last conversation I had with the instructor was that he would like to have the quizzes automatically grade and drop the extra 2 points if someone answered all questions correctly, then do the other math automatically depending on the number of questions they answered incorrect. Seeing that this is not able to be done (feature request...), we will have to go with the fudge points options for now. He anticipates the student population for this course to explode, thus having the quizzes auto grade would be the best option. ... View more

Rick, Thanks for the response. I didn't think about fudge points as I was only thinking automatic grading, which I figured there would be no way to do this (sounds like a feature request, huh?). This would be a viable option for the professor this semester as thus far he only has three students enrolled in the course. Not sure what his students numbers will be in other semesters however. Thanks! ... View more