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I am new to canvas and have yet to teach a class in canvas( I teach high school physics) but I am interested in using canvas for many of its features and mistakenly assumed it already allowed immediate feedback.  One feature I am confident it does not yet possess is the Multi step calculation idea.   I currently use it and it is simply an option under calculation question types, but connected here is that I assumed immediate feedback was an option. This feature is vital to the way I have been teaching. Admittedly it is a two edged sword, while it encourages initially it has prevented progress in the past as a student feels they simply can not go on if they did not get one problem right.  But proper student preparation and or environment where it is accessed could limit those issues.  for example only let them work on it at school where they could seek help to remedy the lack of knowledge or receive your prompts and cues to move past it.  ... View more

This or a similar feature can not be that hard to implement.  I had a former colleague who made a quiz engine of her own and it does what I call multi step calculations, that require the answer from one part to be the input for the next.  I offer it as an idea because she made it and it lacks the other bells and whistles canvas provides.  If my idea and this are the same and it is not implemented in quizzes.next I simply wont use quizzes.next it is that big of a game changer.  When using it it feels like your working it out on paper. ... View more

This idea sounds similar to my own I posted today, but with out more detail I couldn't be sure so I posted an idea for a feature that I use with a former colleagues creation.  It is an idea that would make possible, say a projectile question were the student could report the horizontal and vertical components, or the angle using one set of variables.  I called it multi step calculations if interested ... View more