You can award negative scores in a Partial Credit question. A Partial Credit question can be used as
- a multiple choice or
- a multiple response question. With multiple response questions you can give a different score to each answer option.
When you have added your Partial Credit question, open the question properties window.
You can see in this example that the first option has a negative score.
If you are using the Partial Credit as a multiple choice type question there will be only one “correct” answer. If you want you can still award a negative scores.
You can also choose whether those negative points are set against the overall points for a quiz. Do this by:
- right clicking on the green quiz icon and selecting Properties.
- Checking the Allow Overall Negative Marks boxes in the Question Scoring Options section.