I'm trying to create a quiz for an assignment where I will accept any answer. This is my way of making an assignment a completions grade. Is this possible? If not, is there any other way to get this done? Thanks for your help.
For what you want I'm thinking that a graded survey might work. The way to do this is create a quiz, but change the type (from the quiz settings) from graded quiz to graded survey. This will allow you to set the number of points the student can earn regardless of what their answer is.
In addition to what @kona said - there is another option. You can also create an essay question within a graded quiz. This allows you to have "right" and "wrong" answers for the majority of the quiz, and then an essay spot for the students to fill in whatever you are asking about. The downside to this is that you would need to manually grade the essays.
Not sure why no one is being direct here, but the answer appears to be "No."
I also have a need for this, something that is easy in Moodle. Even, setting the point value of the essay question to zero doesn't help either, as it makes the quiz require manual grading.
Will Instructure consider adding this obvious and basic feature? Or allow you to say, use wildcards? Well, you could always take your chances with the Community Suggestion process which seems rigged to inevitably sideline your suggestion.
Only if you use the New Quiz format. In that case, use Fill in the Blank, Answer Type: Open Entry, Text Match: Close Enough, then set the Levenshtein Distance to something large, like 23. I use this for an "Honor Code" question were I ask students to type their name, i.e., "I, `studentnamefirstlast`, acknowledge that I have neither given or received any use of unauthorized aid."
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