Mary Cooch

Go to Site administration > Plugins > Plugins overview > Additional plugins and then see what it says for Topics Advanced format ( I too am curious..)

I honestly don't remember it any differently from the way I outlined above - at least not in the standard multiple choice, multi option question. As far as I recall, if you have five answers and three get 33% each to make 100 percent - then if you give the other 2 'none' then the question wil be marked as correct because none means none - so you gain no marks but you lose no marks. By the way there are some interesting plugins relating to multi answer such as the All or nothing question behaviour (adaptive) and All or nothing question behaviour (deferred)

Hello Mike. As far as I can recall you have been able to assign negative grades to questions that are wrong in multi-anwer questions, but not everyone is aware of it - hence the occasional confusion. As for your 5 questions where 3 are correct and 2 are incorrect - the solution is entirely up to you How incorrect do you think the answers are? For example, I would probably give the 2 incorrect ones minus 50% each, so your question will have 1 or 0. And as Shirley says, plus 33% for the three correct ones. But you could just as well give minus 33 percent for each - and not have it add up to minus 1. It doesn't matter in the final score. Look at the section Grading options in the documentation Multiple choice question type.

I very much like your final statement Rick:  I recognize that if I cheat or lie, I will have to live the rest of my life knowing about my dishonesty.

 

Incidentally there is a plugin Quiz access honesty check that does similar, although only officially for up to 4.2 currently.