This article explains how to create a question in an assessment, configure it (time limit, media, games, correction), draw questions at random with a group, and manage your questions.
Table of contents
- Create a question
- Configure the question
- Draw questions at random with a group
- Use the question menu
- Move a question
- Frequently asked questions
Create a question
- Open the assessment, then the part where you want to add the question.
- Click the pink “Add a question” button, below your introductory content. A panel opens on the right.
- Write the question.
- Enter the correct answer(s) and some wrong answers (“+ Wrong answer”).
- Click “Confirm”.
If the question has several correct answers, choose “Multiple choice” in the “Test knowledge” menu (1), above the question, then add each extra correct answer.
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Configure the question
Below the answers, the “More options” block groups the settings of the question.
How the settings combine
- Time limit: the question's time limit overrides the subsection's, which overrides the assessment's.
- Question order: “Question order” in the assessment settings, and the order of questions within each subsection. It cannot be set question by question.
- Question types: the types checked in the assessment settings are offered by default for each new question; each question can then be customized. There is no question-type setting per subsection.
Time limit
By default, the question uses the time limit of its subsection, or else the assessment's (40 seconds when an assessment is created). Enable “Time limit” (2) to set a specific time for this question.
To remove any time limit, set the assessment's “Time limit by default” to 0.
Add visual media
Enable “Add visual media” (1) to attach one or more files to the question: image (.AVIF, .WEBP, .JPG, .JPEG, .PNG, .GIF, .BMP), sound (.MP3, .WAV, .M4A) or video (.MP4). They are displayed together with the question.
Customize the question types
By default, the question is asked with the types checked in the assessment settings. To choose the games for this question, enable “Customize the question types” (2), then check the games you want among the six available in assessments: Open-ended question, Multiple choice, Swipe Cards, Mystery Card, Words Master and Word Search Puzzle.
A game marked “insufficient data to be generated” needs other elements, for example wrong answers: see the table of games and their conditions. The Hidden Answer game, available in courses, does not exist in assessments.
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Open question: correction method
If the “Open-ended question” game is checked, choose how the learner's typed answer is corrected (3):
- “Standard”: capitalization and accent errors are accepted;
- “Strict”: only answers exactly identical to the correct answer (or its alternatives) are accepted.
The AI-based correction methods are offered for knowledge questions in courses, not in assessments.
Draw questions at random with a group
A question group asks only some of the group's questions, drawn at random: two learners do not necessarily get the same questions.
Create a group
- Click the three dots ⋮ of an existing question, then “Add a grouped question”.
- A group is created with this question, and the panel of a new question opens: write it and click “Confirm”.
- To add more questions to the group, repeat from the ⋮ menu of a question in the group.
You can also create a group by dragging a question onto another one (see “Move a question”).
Choose how many questions are asked
By default, the group asks all its questions. In the group header, “Number of questions to be asked:” (framed), choose how many questions are drawn at random: for example “2 / 3” for two questions out of three.
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In the preview, the number of questions announced to the learner takes the draw into account: an assessment with 10 questions, including a group asking 2 out of 3, announces “Be prepared to answer 9 questions.”
Use the question menu
The three dots ⋮ of a question open the “Options” menu:
- “Add text or media before the question” (1): inserts Text, an Image, a Video or a Sound before the question;
- “Add a grouped question” (2): see above;
- “Preview the question” and “Edit question”;
- “Delete this input” (3): deletes the question.
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In the list, a question with its own time limit shows a clock with that time (for example “120 s”).
Move a question
- In the content area, click the ⋮⋮ handle on the left of the question and hold.
- Drag it between two questions, then release.
- Click the save icon at the top left (the check mark turns into a floppy disk until the change is saved).
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⚠️ If you release the question onto another question, both are grouped into a question group (“Number of questions to be asked: 2 / 2”). To avoid this, drop it in the space between two questions. If you leave the page without saving, the move is cancelled.
Move a question to another subsection
The easiest way is to use the outline on the left: click the question, hold, drag it under the title of another subsection, release, then save.
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Move several questions at once
To move all the questions of a subsection at the same time, move the whole subsection: see Create and configure subsections within an assessment.
Frequently asked questions
Can learners be told how many correct answers a “Multiple choice” question has?
Not automatically. Add a hint to the question, for example “Several correct answers possible”.
Can feedback be shown after each question?
No. In an assessment, the correction is shown at the end, on the last page, if the “Questions in detail and their correction” option is enabled: see Configure the last page of an assessment. You can also add a document explaining the answers at the end of the assessment.
Can questions be created with AI in an assessment?
No, assessment questions are written manually.
How is a question's score calculated?
A question only scores if the learner selects all the correct answers and no wrong answer. For example, for a question with two correct answers where only one is selected, the question scores 0.
Can some questions be given more weight?
No, questions cannot be weighted: each question counts equally in the assessment score.