Quizzes
A quiz is a set of questions with right answers. People take it from a link at their own pace and see their score straight away — or you host it live with a PIN. This page covers building one and taking it from a link.
Question types
Each question has one of five formats, chosen in the panel on the right of the editor.
| Format | Counts as correct when |
|---|---|
| Multiple choice | The one answer chosen is the one marked correct. Two to six answers. |
| Multi-select | Every answer marked correct is ticked, and nothing else. Turn on Partial credit and each right tick earns its share of the points while each wrong tick takes one share back (never below zero). |
| True or false | The chosen answer matches the one marked. |
| Type answer | The typed text matches one of up to ten accepted answers, ignoring capitals, accents, punctuation and extra spaces — “sao-paulo!” matches “São Paulo”. Spelling still counts, so add common misspellings as extra accepted answers. |
| Essay | Exams only. Never marked automatically: you mark it on the Grade screen. A live game skips essays, so the quiz-game editor does not offer them. |
Empty answer boxes are left out when you save, so you can delete a spare answer by clearing it. The answer marked correct must have text.
Points
Each question is worth any whole number of points from 0 to 100,000 — 1,000 and 2,000 suit live games, 1, 2 or 5 suit a class test, and 0 makes a warm-up question. Taken from a link, a correct answer earns its full points (or its share, with partial credit); the score is the total, out of the total available.
In a live game speed counts too — see hosting a live quiz. Each question also has a time limit, from 5 seconds to 2 minutes, which only applies live.
Exam mode
Press New exam in the dashboard (or Use as an exam in a quiz’s editor). The exam editor shows these settings under Exam settings, offers essay questions and small point values, and hides what only matters live. Every setting is optional. Switching an exam back to a quiz game keeps its questions but sets the exam settings aside.
- Time limit — 1 to 600 minutes. The student sees the rules and presses Start; a bar counts down, and the attempt submits itself when time runs out. The deadline is checked on our server from a signed start time, not the student’s clock. An attempt arriving more than 60 seconds late is still stored, marked late.
- Reloading does not restart the clock. The start time is kept in the browser, and with One attempt per person on, the server keeps the first start too — so a new tab or a cleared browser resumes the same clock.
- Shuffle question order and Shuffle answer order give each attempt its own order.
- Draw this many questions at random picks that many at random from the quiz (up to 100 questions in all). Each attempt is marked on exactly the questions it showed, and the attempt records which they were.
- Pass mark and Grades — a percentage to pass, and grade bands such as A 90%, B 80% down to F. Shown to the student and in the export.
- Hold scores until I release them — students see “results will be released later” instead of a score. Each gets a private results link to check back.
Marking and releasing
A quiz’s Grade tab lists every attempt, with those still waiting for marks first. Open one to see each answer; give an essay its marks and a comment, or override any automatic mark. Saving recalculates the score, percentage, grade and pass. Clear a mark to go back to the automatic one.
When marking is done, press Release scores. Each student’s results link then shows their score, grade, pass, your comments and — if Show correct answers after submitting is on — the right answers. Withhold again hides them.
What a respondent sees
Every quiz starts with a “Your name” question, so you can tell attempts apart. After submitting, the respondent sees their score, the number they got right, and each question with their answer. With Show correct answers after submitting on (the default), every question they missed also shows the right answer and any explanation you wrote.
The results you get back
- The number of attempts, the average and median score, and how many were perfect.
- A chart of the score spread in ten bands.
- The hardest questions, by the share who got each right — worked out against the current answer key, so correcting a key updates the figure.
- The pass rate (with a pass mark), how many attempts still need marking, and the most common wrong answer to each question.
- The top ten scores with names, and every attempt in the CSV — a gradebook with score, maximum, percentage, grade, passed, late and the points for every question.
- Recent live games, each with its final table and a CSV download.
Common questions
- Where do I make a quiz?
- In your dashboard, press New quiz for a game you can host live, or New exam for a timed, graded test. Both open the same editor with one multiple-choice question — each shows only the settings that fit — and “Use as an exam” or “Use as a quiz game” switches a saved one without losing its questions. Templates under Quizzes & trivia open with questions and answers already filled in.
- Can a respondent see the answers before they submit?
- No. The answer key is never sent to the quiz page — it stays on our server, which scores the answers after they are submitted and stored.
- Can people take it more than once?
- Yes, unless you turn on “One attempt per person” in the quiz editor. It limits each browser to one attempt; for a stricter limit, choose one attempt per account under Settings → Voting & results.
- Is there a pass mark?
- Yes, if you set one under Exam mode. Every attempt then shows pass or not, and the results page shows the pass rate. You can add letter grades too.
- Who can see the results?
- Only you, by default. A quiz’s results page shows how many people chose each answer — which gives the answers away — so it starts private. You can open it under Settings → Voting & results.