This article goes in-depth into the question creation process. It will cover the different features of the question editor, the different question types, and additional question settings.
Question editor
From left to right, the question editor allows you to:
- Change font sizes to one of three options.
- Bold text.
- Italicise text.
- Add subscript.
- Add superscript.
- Underline text.
- Clear all formatting.
- Change text colour.
- Highlight text.
- Add bullet points/numbered list.
- Add emoji.
- Add images.
Question types
Text: students can respond by typing
Emoji: students can choose an emoji from one of the three emoji types – Reaction, Mood, or Health
Scale: students can choose a number from a scale that you have created. By default, the scale is from 1-7, which can be adjusted to be higher or lower (lowest option is a scale of three up to a scale of 10)
Multiple choice: students can respond by choosing one of the options that you have given.
Pair matching: students can respond by matching pairs.
Quiz: Like multiple choice, but you can decide which options are correct and incorrect
Matrix: students can rate a statement, or set of statements, based on a range of options you create. For example, rate statements on a scale of 1-5 where 1=strongly disagree and 5=strongly agree.
Additional question settings
The additional question settings menu changes based on which question type is being chosen, allowing for specific controls for how students can answer.
Allow anonymous responses
All question types will have the ability to toggle this on or off.
Additional text response
For Emoji, Scale, and Multiple-choice question types, you can allow students to provide additional text response in addition to their choice or rating. This is helpful for encouraging additional feedback or explanation for their choice.
Select more than one option for Multiple choice
For the Multiple-choice question type, you can allow your students to select multiple options. You can also allow an ‘Other’ option, which lets students specify their own answer.
Allow multiple answers per statement for Matrix
For the Matrix question type, you can allow students to choose multiple options per statement. Note: We would advise against this if your matrix options were designed as a rating scale.