Negative mark for short answer questions

Negative mark for short answer questions

by Sophie Englade -
Number of replies: 2

Hi,

I am using Moodle 3.2.


I discovered the short answer questions type and they are really powerful! However the fact that we can not do negative marking in this type is really limiting for me.

I even try to reevaluate grades afterward but turns out even manually we cannot put a negative grade.

Does anyone have a workaround or even code modification to suggest to work this issue out?


Thanks for your help!


S.

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In reply to Sophie Englade

Re: Negative mark for short answer questions

by Tim Hunt -
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Can you give us an example of what you want to do? That is, a particular question, and what marks you want for what responses.

In reply to Tim Hunt

Re: Negative mark for short answer questions

by Sophie Englade -

Hello,

What I intend to do is display a portion of code such as (this is a very simple example) :

enter b

a = b+3

display a


And then ask open questions about the output according to b :

Q1 : What is the output if we enter 2

Q2 : What is the output if we enter 6

...


If the student answers correctly , he should have 2 points for the question. However, as I want to make sure students answer only if they are sure, if they answer wrong they should be grated -2 points. If they dont answer they have 0 point.


Let me know if you need any more details.


S.