Canvas is changing before our very eyes!

[cwendt]

I've been using Canvas all week and seeing all sorts of wonderful changes happen in the area of quizzes. They've changed, but more importantly, short answers are now case and punctuation-sensitive.

I think that world language, chemistry and elementary teachers will be particularly pleased about this.

[jjordan1]

Do we know if this is auto-magic, or is there a checkbox to turn this on in the quiz?  The caps part is awesome, what if no acento, will it still count it as correct?

[cwendt]

 @jjordan1 ​, It think it's "automagical"! Also, as long as I've been using Canvas, if I put in the answer field that it should be accented, no acento=no puntos.    And for the student who things that  éxtránéóús accent marks will take care of things, ¡NO ES CIERTO!

[jsparks]

Wow, your results are really interesting.  I wish I could say that we fixed this, but we didn’t.  We have not completed any work on this particular issue in the current quizzes.  We are likely including this in our Modern Quizzing Engine, but this is not something to likely be addressed in our current toolset as we focus on building something new and amazing.  Based on my testing, I have a suspicion this is related to the special character using the accent mark and not the case.  I am glad, however, to see this is working for you!

[jjordan1]

Hi Jason, does the accent mark tricks the quiz engine to ignore the case of the letter, or does the quiz engine already ignore the case?  Our world language faculty have been asking for options like these (ignore case = y/n & ignore accent marks = y/n).  They have these in Quia for quizzes, which led to their questions for me on this topic.  I gave input on the modern quizzing engine thread to help with feedback.  Thanks

[jsparks]

Hi Jason,

I just spoke with an engineer on my team about this, and it has to do with the handling of unicode characters and the way the item types were originally built. We can, and will, include case sensitivity as a part of the rebuild item types in the updated engine. We wouldn't have that particular tic-box setting to ignore accent marks, but we will include fuzzy matching for FITB and other input-based questions.

Thank you for the input on this...

Jason the Other

[jjordan1]

thank you Jason, fuzzy logic will be a great option

-Jason (the client)