Managing Multiple Choice Questions

This article will review the options and output for the multiple choice question type.

A multiple choice question will allow a student to select one or more answers for a particular question. You can have as little as two options or up to ten total options. The multiple choice question type will also include true/false questions and yes/no questions.

Once multiple choice questions have been added to your assessment, there are a number of options you can configure for each question:

1. Drag Handler: clicking on the three bars icon will allow you to drag the question to a new position in the list of questions. If auto labeling is enabled, the question label will automatically update.
2. Available Responses: this area will indicate the options available to the student when they are taking a test. Clicking on a response will toggle that response as a correct answer. You can set one or more responses as the correct answer. If more than one response is set as the correct answer, a student will need to bubble in all correct responses to get any credit for that question.
3. Add or Remove Responses: clicking on the plus button will add another available response. You can have up to eight total responses for a question. Clicking on the minus button will remove the last available response on a question.
4. Points: the point value for a question is one. You can set the point value to any positive number. Decimal points are allowed when setting the point value.
5. Standards: you can apply one or more standards to a particular question. We have the full set of common core standards, but we do allow you to upload custom standards into our system.
6. Tags: you can apply one or more tags to a particular question. While we have the ability to apply standards to a question, tags are another way to slice reporting data.
7. Actions Menu: this menu will show you all the options available to you for an assessment question. We will go over each action in other help documentation, but the edit feature will launch a modal for the question you wish to edit.

1. Available responses: modify the list of available responses by updating the comma separated list of available responses. Available responses can only be a length of one, and you can have a maximum of 10 responses.
2. Correct responses: modify the list of correct responses by updating the comma separated list of correct responses. Correct responses must exist in the comma separated list of available responses.
3. Points: this will define the available score for a question. This value will need to be a numeric value and can contain a decimal point.
4. Standards: manage the list of standards for a question. (important for reporting purposes)
5. Tags: manage the list of tags for a question. (important for reporting purposes)

Please see the example below of how the multiple choice questions are represented on a testing sheet: