Creating Combination Multiple Choice Questions

With this question type, students are first presented with a list of answers. Students are then asked to choose from a list containing various combinations of these answers.

Example: Which of the following are breeds of cat:
(a) Shorthair, (b) Longhair, (c) Persian, (d) Hershey, (e) Siamese, (f) Malamute?

Choose one of the following answer combinations:

1. (a), (b) and (d)
2. (b), (d), (e) and (f)
3. (a), (b), (c) and (e)
4. all of the above
5. none of the above

The correct answer is 3.

Although you can set multiple answers as correct with a multiple choice question type, the combination multiple choice question offers more flexibility for presentation of correct combinations and the assignment of marks to partially correct combinations.

 

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.

 

  • In the Answer text boxes, enter the answers. If you want to hand-code the text in HTML, select the Use HTML check box. If you want to create more than five answers, click Create Additional Single Answers. The screen updates and two additional answer fields appear.

    Note: The combination multiple choice question requires more than one correct answer. If you want only one correct answer, create the question as a Multiple Choice question.

 

Select multiple single answers to form an Answer Combination: For each single answer that you want to appear in the combination, select the check box (e.g., A, D, and E).

  • If you want to specify a text answer that is not a combination of the single answers (e.g., None of the above), enter it in the Other text box. For the correct combination, select Correct response. You may select only one combination as correct.
  • If you want to provide feedback for the answer combination, in the Feedback text box, enter the feedback.
  • If you want to create more than five Answer Combinations, click Create Additional Combinations.

The screen updates and two additional combination fields appear.

 

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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