Which Question Types Can I Use?

Adding questions

In a test's Questions tab, click Add Question. The menu attached to it also offers Import CSV, see Import Questions from a CSV, and Generate with AI to create questions from a prompt.

Question types

Every question has a type selector at the top of the editor with four options:

Multiple Choice

Enter the question text, then add between 2 and 6 answer options. Drag the handles to reorder options while you work. Mark the correct one by clicking the letter button beside it.

Multiple Select

Enter the question text, then add between 2 and 6 answer options. Mark every correct option by clicking the letter button beside each one; there can be more than one. People taking the test select all the options they think are correct, so this type fits "choose all that apply" questions. See Grading and partial credit below for how results are scored.

True / False

Enter a statement, then mark whether True or False is the correct answer.

Short Answer

Enter the question text. Short answers are never scored automatically. They're marked Needs Review and graded manually in the Submissions tab, so there's no answer key to fill in. It helps to keep the question itself specific enough that a correct response is easy to recognize when you review it.

You can change a question's type later, but doing so clears its options and answer key after a confirmation prompt.

Points

Each question has a point value that defaults to 1. Give harder questions more points if you want; totals across the test are calculated automatically.

Explanation

Each question also has an optional Explanation box below the point value. It's the default feedback participants see on their result page for this question. During grading you can leave the per-question feedback empty and the explanation shows instead; write custom feedback and that overrides it. See Grade Submissions.

Editing and organizing

• Click the ⋯ menu on a question card and choose Edit Question to open it in the editor.
• Drag the handle on a question card to reorder. People see questions in exactly this order unless you enable shuffling in the experience settings.
• Delete a question with Delete Question from the ⋯ menu on its card.

How grading works

Multiple choice, multiple select, and true/false questions are scored automatically against your answer key the moment a test is submitted. Short answers wait for manual review instead. See Grade Submissions for the full workflow.

How Multiple Select is graded

A multiple select question awards full points only when someone picks exactly the correct options, with nothing missing and nothing extra. Partial selections still earn partial credit, and wrong selections carry a small penalty.

Take a question worth 4 points with 4 options, where A and C are correct. The math works like this:

• Each correct option you select earns ½ the points (4 ÷ 2 correct answers = 2 points each).
• Each incorrect option you select loses ¼ of the points (4 ÷ 4 options = 1 point each).
• A wrong selection can never drive the score below 0.

Someone selects	Calculation	Score
A and C (exactly right)	2 + 2	4 / 4
A only	2	2 / 4, partial credit
A and B (one wrong)	2 − 1	1 / 4, partial credit
A, C, and B (all correct plus one wrong)	2 + 2 − 1	3 / 4, partial credit
B, C, and D (one correct, two wrong)	2 − 1 − 1	0 / 4, never below zero

Selecting nothing scores 0, same as skipping the question. Picking every option is rarely a winning strategy either: on the example above, selecting all four earns 2 + 2 − 1 − 1 = 2 points, less than half, because the wrong picks cancel out the correct ones.

The same logic applies to any point value: each correct pick earns points divided by the number of correct answers, and each wrong pick loses points divided by the total number of options.