¶ Navigating to the page
- From the Dashboard, go to either the Homework & Quizzes tab or the In Class Exercises tab
- Create a new Exercise or edit an existing exercise
- From the Edit page, Click New → Question → Multiple Selection
¶ Using the page
¶ Answers
The answers table is used to create the answers that students will select between. Answers cannot be empty when saving a Multiple Selection Question. The table is sortable. The order of answers can be changed by clicking and dragging the bars icon next to the answer input.
The following actions can be taken on each answer:
¶ Set as Correct/Incorrect Answer
This sets an incorrect answer as correct, and a correct answer as incorrect. For Multiple Selection questions, more than one answer can be correct.
¶ Delete
Removes the selected answer
¶ Feedback
Opens a modal to write feedback to provide the student if they answer this question with the selected answer.
¶ Settings
¶ This is a poll
Poll questions have no correct answer, and will not be marked.
¶ How is this question graded?
There are four ways that Multiple Selection questions can be graded:
¶ All or Nothing
Full marks are provided only for selecting all correct answers and no incorrect answers.
¶ Correct Selections
Marks are evenly distributed across all answers. Learners earn part marks for each answer correctly selected and left blank.
¶ Correct Answers - Limited Selections
Marks are evenly distributed across correct answers only. The number of selections allowed is limited to the number of correct answers. Learners earn part marks for each correct answer selected.
¶ Correct Minus Incorrect Selections
Marks are evenly distributed across all answers. Learners earn part marks for each answer correctly selected and left blank. Learners lose points for answers incorrectly selected or left blank. Learners cannot receive less than 0 marks.
¶ Pool Answers
Instead of displaying all of the answers written down, randomly select some of the answers to display. When pooling answers, the number of correct answers must be selected as well as the number of answers. There cannot be more correct answers selected than answers.
¶ Style
¶ Answer Style
Select between the Default, Border, Button, and Switch styles.
¶ Button Content
Text that will be placed on the selected option. The available styles only have room for one or two characters.
¶ Font Size
the font size of the text for each answer
¶ Button Size
The size of the radio buttons next to the answers
¶ Spacing
The space in pixels between answers
¶ Examples
See the Multiple Selection Question section of the Randomizing Exercises tutorial for another example of this question type.
¶ Multiple Selection Styles
This example will display different styles of a simple example. This question type has multiple answers to choose from, and any number of them can be selected.
The Border style surrounds each answer with a border, uses a grey circle to indicate a not selected answer, and a green circle to indicate the selected answer.
The Button style replaces the check box in the default option with a flat button.
The Switch button style replaces the check box in the default option with a switch.
¶ Practical Example
The following example is of a question that could be used in an introductory statistics course.
This example also has a solution included
Students are able to see the provided solution on the Review Answers page at the time they're made available in the Assignment Settings page.