Self-Reported Reading

Some teachers want to allow students to self-report how much of an assignment they have completed, and assign a score based on what the student reports. (In Blackboard, this could be accomplished by assigning a quiz question partial credit to a series of multiple-choice answers.)

In Canvas, this is an active feature request (see link), but not yet implemented. Meanwhile, for some narrow cases, you can use a work-around of creating a "multiple-answer" question and marking them all correct, then telling student to choose the right amount. This only works if you have an even amount for each question (like 0%, 25%, 50%, 100%, but not 0%, 20%, 60%, 95%, 100%).

Here's an example quiz question for a class where the reading is worth 20 points, and students self-report how much of the reading they did:

Choose "Multiple Answers" as the type of question. Mark the first answer incorrect (for 0% finished) and mark all of the rest correct. Be sure to clearly explain that students need to check more than one answer. In the example above, the instructions say:

How much of the reading did you do?

Because of the way Canvas scores questions like this, you need to check ALL that apply. For example: check the five last answer if you did all the reading; check 20%, 40%, and 60% if you did 60% of the reading.

If you want more choices, just be sure to space them evenly, like 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%, 100%.