When copying questions and answers (distractors) from a formatted Word document, please ensure that all text formatting is removed before pasting. To do this, use one of the following methods:
- Option 1: Right-click in the answer box and choose “Paste as plain text.”
- Option 2: Save the entire Word document as a .txt (plain text) file, then copy and paste from that text file into the answer boxes.
This will ensure that hidden formatting does not reveal the correct answers to students.
You can create the following question types:
Multiple choice (ONE correct answer)
With Multiple Choice questions, students select one correct answer from several choices. Students aren't told if they need to choose one or multiple answers.
Multiple answer (More than one correct answer)
To create multiple answer questions, you select Multiple choice and choose multiple correct answers to be able to provide partial credit.
When the student takes the assessment, the system enforces the instructor’s selection limit.
The default is:
- 4 answer options
- partial/negative credit is off (no additional changes made to partial/negative credit for this release)
- students can select up to 4 answers
- if additional answers are added, selection limit remains at 4
- if answers are removed, instructor must select the selection limit.
Instructor View
What does the student see?
- One answer radio buttons
- Multiple answers tick boxes
- Indication of the number of correct options.
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