Enhanced multiple choice and multiple answer workflow – 4000.6
Impact: Instructors and Students
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We updated question setup to provide a more intuitive experience, including updating the default answer options from three to four and improving controls for how students interact with questions. These changes support greater flexibility in assessment design and an improved experience for students.
Instructors
To reduce setup time when creating a multiple choice question, we changed the default number of answer options from three to four. Instructors can add or remove answer options.
Instructors can now define the number of answer selections that a student can make for each multiple choice question. 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
Image 1: Instructors can define the number of answer selections for each multiple choice question.
Students
For questions where students can select only one answer, the selection mechanism is radio buttons. For questions where students can select more than one answer, the selection mechanism is checkboxes.
Image 2: The student's selection mechanism of checkbox or radio button is determined by how many answers they can select.
Administrators
Availability: Available for all Ultra courses.
Activation: None needed.
Configuration: None needed.