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Custom points and negative points in all tests/assignments

Many official tests have +2p for right answer, 0p for empty and -1p for wrong answers. Ability to emulate official tests and discourage guessing is important and would make the tests way more useful.

Edit: At the moment even multiple choice questions do not allow negative scores from a question - even if you check all possible choices, minimum score is 0p and not -1 or -2 points.

  • Kari Saaranen
  • Sep 5 2024
  • Not selected for implementation
Country FI
Category Grading and assessment
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    Product Team commented
    10 Sep 12:52

    Thank you for your clarification. It is indeed not possible to score negative on a single question. It is only possible within a question to have wrong alternatives have a negative impact on the total score for that question. We currently have no plans to change this, but we will leave the idea on the idea portal to see how many votes it will get.

    regards,

    the itslearning Product team

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  • Kari Saaranen commented
    10 Sep 11:39

    Even in multiple choice questions you can NOT get a negative score. If you check all possible options, result is still 0 points, not negative points.

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    Product Team commented
    10 Sep 11:02

    Thank you for your idea. For question types where we believed it made sense it is possible to use negative score, for example a multiple choice question where students can select more than 1 alternative. In addition by using the option "Customer score" you are able to give weight to each alternative, so it becomes possible to give a 'higher' positive score to correct answers.

    regards,

    the itslearning Product team

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