Want autograde to recognize a range of answer submissions as correct? Whether you use Edulastic to teach math, chemistry, or physics, the answer tolerance feature might be of interest to you!

1. How to Add Answer Tolerance
for a Numerical Answer

2. When creating a new question, go to the "Math Tech
Enhanced” tab

3. Click on the “Multipart” question type

4. Once you open the question type, enter the question stem.

5. Once you open the question type, enter the question stem.

6. To enter a mathematical equation click the square root icon.

7. The equation editor will pop up.

8. Using the equation editor, write in your equation.

9. Next, click “Save”

10. Click the “Widget” tab

11. Click the “Numeric” widget

12. Enter the correct answer in the box

13. Then set the “Tolerance” level.
In this example the tolerance is set to 0.4. This means any answer response
including and between 15.6 and 15.68 will be autograded as correct. Any
response outside of that range will be autograded as incorrect.
All set? Click “Accept”

14. Now you’ll see the correct answer in the response box.

15. Now you’ll see the correct answer in the response box.

16. If you have other parts to add to your question, enter them now.
Otherwise, delete any extra test to finalize the question.

17. Click “Preview Question” to test the question.

18. Here you can answer and test the question by pressing submit.
This preview shows you the question as the student will see the
question.

19. Good to go? Click “Save” and then “Review” to revisit
the complete assessment or to add more questions.