You can now deactivate response flagging for specific questions. Previously, all student responses to free response questions were flagged if students self-assessed that they got the question correct and their answer was non-trivially different than the exemplar answer.

Now, you are able to disable flagging for specific free response questions:

You can read more details about deactivating response flagging in this article: https://podsie.tawk.help/article/how-to-handle-flagged-free-responses