Hi, how about changing the total points available to "2 points" so that way you can award 1 point if it's for partial credit? It sounds like for your second suggestion, you want a rubric style way of grading questions where you can assess different parts of a response. We are definitely considering this for the future.
Your suggestion was how we worked around it, but then we had to double the entire test to make sure that question was not worth too much, and then question values are a bit misleading.
Ah, thanks for trying and I definitely recognize how this isn't ideal because what the # of points possible communicate may be different from classroom to classroom. We are definitely considering partial point values (.5)
As a math teacher, one of my reasons for wanting to be able to award partial credit on a multiple choice question would be for something like choosing "2/4" instead of "1/2" if the problem had asked the student to add 3/16 +5/16 and simplify the answer.
Here's a new tip. You can now award partial point values if you click into the scoring box and manually enter the point value (Ex: 6.7) You can even do this for multiple choice if you don't set an answer key for auto-grading (selecting the correct option you want your students to choose). This will make it so that all multiple choice responses are ungraded (color-coded as grey) and you can then award partial point values.