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Points: more options

jdovre
Wed, 19 Oct 2016 14:05:06 GMT

One option that would be helpful: Question is worth 1 point, and when grading a teacher can give students .5 points. Sometimes a student gets a portion of the "show your work" correct, but not all. Another option: give teachers the option to make a question worth .5 points. Reason: I wanted to break one question into two parts because I wanted it to grade the short answer more easily. I didn't want the question to be worth 1 point, but a half point.

David from Formative
Wed, 19 Oct 2016 22:44:38 GMT

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.

jdovre
Wed, 26 Oct 2016 16:05:57 GMT

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.

David from Formative
Mon, 31 Oct 2016 17:07:30 GMT

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)

bdeaver
Thu, 25 May 2017 16:11:27 GMT

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.

David from Formative
Thu, 01 Jun 2017 17:43:12 GMT

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.