Creating Multiple Choice Questions with Several Correct Answers

With this question type, students choose several answers as correct from a list of answers.

Example: Which of the following movies are a part of the Star Wars series?

a. The Empire Strikes Back
b. Revenge of the Sith
c. Return of the Jedi
d. Shakespeare in Love

Correct answer = a., b. and c.

From either the Question Database, or the Assessment itself,

Click Create Questions.

Give the question a title so that you can distinguish it once it is in your question database. This Title will be visible to students unless you change the default in Assessment Settings.
Type in the Question text. Insert an equation if needed. You may insert an image for this
question by clicking Browse.

Next to Select mode, select Multiple answers.

In the Answer text boxes, enter the answers.

To equally weight the correct answers, select Correct response.
To assign varying percentage values to the correct answers, in the Value (%) text box, enter the percent value.
For incorrect answers, enter a negative percent value in the Value (%) text box, if you want to penalize for wrong answers (negative scoring).
If negative scoring is not allowed, leave the value in the Value (%) text box as 0.

If you want to provide students with feedback about an answer, in the Feedback text box, enter text feedback.
If you want to create additional answers, click Create Additional Answers.

The screen updates and another Answer field displays.

Next to Answer layout, select Vertical or Horizontal.
Next to Answer labels, select whether the answers should be identified by Numbers or Letters.
Next to Randomize answer ordering:

Select Yes to randomize the order of the multiple choice answers each time the question appears in an assessment.
To maintain the order of the answers in which you entered them, select No.

Next to Grading scheme:

Select Cumulative to set the grading so that each correct answer counts for a portion of the total question score.
Select All or nothing to set the grading so that all correct answers must be selected to get 100% for the question, otherwise a score of 0% will be awarded question.

To enable negative scoring for incorrect answers, next to Allow negative score, select Yes.
To make incorrectly answered questions worth 0%, next to Allow negative score, select No.

More Options

In the General feedback text box, enter the text feedback. The general feedback displays when students view their graded assessment. Section Designer notes will only be visible to you.

You can preview the question before saving it by clicking Preview.

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