Perseus multiple choice answers

this is an example of a question that uses multiple choice answer and to create a multiple choice answer you select the multiple choice answer type here from this drop-down in the answer section and then you can create your your choices here and you can use the ad choice button to add a new choice you can click one of these trashcan buttons to remove a choice and then you want to select over here which one is the correct answer so in this case this is the correct answer to both periodic so that's that's the basic gist of it there are a couple other things that you can do there's a couple options here one is to randomize the answer order and if you do that it will each time it presents this question to the student these answers will appear in a different order so it'll just shuffle them up and that's usually a good thing to do although there are a couple cases where you don't want to do that one is if the answers have some natural order to them you know if they were like ABC and D or they were numbers you would want to present those in order just so it's not you know confusing you don't want the question to be tricky to answer you know because the the answer choices are not in a sense achill order you know you want to make sure that the if the if the question is difficult it's difficult because of the content that we're actually assessing so if there's some natural order to to the question then we shouldn't randomize it another case where you shouldn't randomize it is if you have a none of the above option like this you also don't want to randomize it because right now if you if you were to randomize it then none of the above would would get shuffled in with the rest of them and that and that could be confusing to students and maybe in the future we'll we'll add a way to have a none of the above and shuffle the rest of them but we don't we don't have a way to do that right now so if you're using a none of the above option make sure that you don't randomize the choices another thing that you should avoid doing is labeling the choices and what I mean by that is saying like you know this is choice a this is choice you know this is choice B this is choice C and this might be convenient I guess because then in the hints you could refer to choice a choice B and so forth but I was limit our ability to randomize in the future even if you don't randomize them now we may want to you know randomize it future in the future and and having these these labels like this would make it difficult to do that just because you know that would mean we'd have to go back and change the hints to not use the labels and so forth so you know don't don't label them like this so we'll remove those labels the other thing that you can do and actually this is a good a good question to do that is you can allow multiple selections and what this will do is it will change the the radio button where you can only select one answer to select all that kind of that apply type of a question and you can have one or more correct answers and so that's that's a good thing to do when when it makes sense to do that and you can of course use your judgment when to do that you can't you shouldn't do a select all that apply and then have none of them be the correct answer because we we want the student to interact with the answer in some way before they click check answer because otherwise the the check answer and the next question button are the same button so they may if they if they say next question twice they may actually hit next question and then check answer and then get this right without even reading the question so we want to so if you do use the the allow multiple selections make sure you make sure at least one of them is correct and of course you can have more than one that's correct or all of them so that's that's a good good thing to use when it makes sense to use it and then I guess the one last thing that I'll point out when using multiple choice is not to not to use colors you know so in this case we have three different graphs here and the graphs are labeled F of XG of X H of X and the answer choices should be and this is a preview of what the answer will look like the answer choices should say F of XG of X H of X they shouldn't say you know the blue function the pink function and in the green function they should have some other label and you can label them ABCD you know in this case F of XG of X H of X label them in some way and as you can see here we made that that color so it's easier to sort of associate and that's fine to do that but if you just say if you just say the word blue pink then that becomes less accessible for people who are not able to distinguish colors so you should use some other type of label you know to to distinguish what what the answers are and there there are unfortunately a couple examples on Khan Academy where we where we do use colors and those are not the greatest examples to follow so I think that's 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