Quizzes Webinar: Pass/Fail and Tally

Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Mario Lurig with SurveyGizmo and this webinar is regarding our Quizzes - our Pass, Fail and Tally Quizzes. So, a couple of quick details before we move right into the topic.

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Well, that being said, we’re going to talk about quizzes today and quizzes are actually one of my favorite features of SurveyGizmo. So, let’s talk briefly about what we offer. SurveyGizmo offers two types of quizzes and quizzes are my favorite thing here at SurveyGizmo. So, we have a Pass/Fail Quiz, which if anyone has ever taken an exam any time in their lives, they will actually be used to this, right? You fill out your answers and then you say, “Hey, you got 75% correct, you passed.” That’s a simple pass/fail question, excuse me, Pass/Fail Quiz.

Our Tally Quiz is a bit different. Our Tally Quiz, if anyone has ever opened say a Cosmo magazine that has a quiz that says, “Are you and your mate compatible? Take the quiz below.” And you answer the questions by choosing one of four possible answers and, at the end, they say, “Great, let’s score your answers.” So, you are presented with, if you chose “A” for number one, you get two points, if you choose “B” for number one, you get no points, if you choose “C” for number one, you get one point, so on and so forth, and at the end, they give you a total number of points and they say, “Well, if you got between 9 and 14 points, you should give up now, your relationship’s doomed. If you got 26 to 30 points, you should be married now,” right? So that’s a Tally Quiz. It assigns a point value and provides a weighted score to each answer.

So, we’re actually going to step through this, through actually some quizzes that we’ve created, some sample quizzes. There is a full tutorial on quizzes available to you and both of the main Pass/Fail and Tally Quiz will be using today to demonstrate, is part of that tutorial. So, you can, at any time, click on those links and go through it again just to recap.

Pass/Fail Quizzes

So, let’s talk about our very first one, which is the Pass/Fail Quiz. The Pass/Fail Quiz is available at all paid plan levels. The Answer key sets the correct values necessary to receive credit for answering. So, basically what that means is you say what the correct answers are, right? That’s how a Pass/Fail Quiz works. So let’s dive in here. So we have a couple of quizzes available, I have some queued up here and before we going into actually editing, I’m going to actually show you how it works.

So, here’s our demo quiz for pass/fail. Now, as we go through this, taking this for the first time, there’s a few tips I wanted to call out. First, and foremost, not all question types that SurveyGizmo offers are compatible with the quiz feature. So, the ones that are compatible are listed here, radio buttons and that includes anything like a likert scale, as well, checkbox which is a multi-select question type, the dropdown menu which is like a radio button in that it’s single select, but it’s done by a dropdown menu, image choice, table of radio buttons and table of checkboxes. So, these are all the supported question types that you can use and we’ve included them all in this sample quiz.

So, we have the very first question and we’re asking, “Which of the following is four legs and a tail?” Well, I have a tail and hands, so let’s say a human. Now, we go into question number two and there’s a special note here. Because when you’re talking about a checkbox question, there’s no such thing as partial credit, you are actually choosing all the quiz answers that they must select to get a passing score on that particular question, AKA, have they ever passed it, got credit or they did not. So, in this case, we’ll select all the items that are smaller than a coconut. Well, both a baseball and a golf ball are. If they selected only one of these, since both of these are the correct answer, and we’ll see that in a second when we go and look at the Answer key, if they select only one, it would not be considered a correct answer.

So, we’re going to step through, there’s a few others and I’m just going to choose from random answers here, so we have a dropdown menu, here’s our image choice, we have a table of radio buttons and we have our table of checkboxes. Now, I’m going to come back to this last question here in a second, but I’m just going to go ahead and submit my answers here. In my message, it says “Sorry, you didn’t pass the quiz. I only got 2 questions out of 11 correct, which is worth 18% and thank you for trying.” Now, that’s a bit disappointing, but it’s a customized message for the fact that I did not pass the online quiz.

So, let’s take a look at an online quiz built within SurveyGizmo software. So, building it, building a quiz is as simple as going over to your dashboard, clicking Create a Quiz on the left side. You can see that a quiz gets a special icon when it’s listed in your project. Now, we have one sample quiz here that’s more of a survey, so we created it as a survey first. We’ll talk about turning things into a quiz later, but for now, if you click Create a Quiz, it’ll create a quick sample quiz for you and include two key elements. One, a sample question or two and on the thank you page, the quiz score page, you’ll have a quiz score action already added in that you can edit. This is what sets your Answer key and decides all the rest of the functionality.

Now, setting up the quiz itself, the content and the questions are just like adding questions to a survey, you simply drag and drop them from the toolbar or you click the Add Questions button at the bottom right of any page. One note is that you are not required to score everything that you include in your quiz. If you included an instruction page that asked them for their name and email address, one, that’s not something that can be really scored, right? There’s not a set of answers, but more importantly, even if you asked them to choose their age from a dropdown, you don’t have to score them based off of their age. You can ignore that. So, don’t be concerned that your quiz must contain only quiz scored questions. You can actually just choose to ignore other ones, and I’ll show you how.

So, let’s dig into the quiz software. Here we have our quiz score action, and you can see it quickly displays some information so you don’t have to click in. The passing score and the pass/fail message. I’m going to go ahead and edit this quiz score action.

At the very top represented with “What Type of Quiz is This?” And this is how you can switch between a pass/fail, which is the Answer key or a Tally Quiz and it will change over. In our case, we’re going to work with the Answer key pass/fail style. So, we move down and we’re asked to put in the passing quiz score, which, of course, is a percentage based. So, we can go from anywhere from 0 to 100%. Now, the meat of it is the Answer key, so in step two, we have the correct answers.

So, here we go with our very first question we had, “Which of the following has four legs and a tail?” Now, this is a single select question. I’m actually going to reload previews so we can go back and forth here. This is a single select question. So, human, cat, kangaroo or whale. There’s only one correct answer, however, if I had as my answer a human, a cat, a kangaroo and a dog, well, there would be two correct answers. Because it’s single select, they could only choose one of them. So here’s the special instance of the way the quiz scores work. If this whale was actually a dog and I checked both of these boxes, it means that if they answered either a cat or a dog, they would receive credit.

So for a single select online quiz question type, like a radio button, you can actually have multiple correct answers. Now this is different from checkboxes, and we talked about this briefly, but in a checkbox, you are selecting everything that must be selected for them to pass that score. So, remember, we’re saying they must answer “baseball” and “golf ball” and they can’t answer just one or answer one and something else, that is the exact answer they must give to receive credit. So, it’s a little different between a single select and a multi-select question type, when it comes to scoring your quizzes.

Now, as we move through, you can see we have a few other items. The image select uses the title we have for our images and lists it here. For each of the tables, I’m going to scroll down to our tables here. Tables are realistically multiple questions just organized together with the same answer set, right? So, all of these are separate questions and you’re going to match fowl, friendly and pencil and you’re answering any one of these columns and the columns are answers. You can picture this is as fowl is a single question, where it says, “Synonym, antonym or unrelated?” And there’s another question that says, “Friendly - synonym, antonym or unrelated?” and so on and so forth.

A table is just organized those together and made it easier for your respondent because they are similar and related. But to score them independently and keep things simple, SurveyGizmo breaks each one out by its row, so you can see the rows are listed here on the left side. And, of course, you can check what are the possible correct answers, because in this case, we’re talking about a radio button, which is single select, so we can add more than one correct answer.

Next we have the checkbox, and just like the checkbox we had above, it has to be an exact match, but they’re broken out by each row.

And the last item here is a show/hidden question, yes or no. You can see here first and last item, you can see here that no answer is selected, because no answer is selected, it is not scored. This is how you would ignore say a demographic question or any other question that doesn’t require scoring, but you want to include as part of your quiz. By not providing an answer in the Answer key, it is ignored, it is not considered failed, it’s not considered pass, it’s actually just not one of the questions that are part of the scoring.

Now, next we deal with one of our first kind of gotcha’s. When you’re mixing features that are of SurveyGizmo with quizzes. There aren’t many, one is the Answer key, with single select and multi select and the second one is dealing with show/hide triggers. Now, show/hide triggers within SurveyGizmo are a quick, dynamic way to show follow-up questions on the same page. So, if we said no, show hidden question, nothing changes. Soon as we select yes, we set this to show a follow-up quiz question that says choose one, right or wrong.

So this is using to quickly to condense your survey or quiz. When you use it in quizzes, however, in our Answer key, we might not have scored the show/hidden question, but we did score the last one, “Choose one,” and we said “Right” is the correct answer. Here’s where the quirk lies. If they chose no, and they never saw that question, it is still counted against them. Because it is part of the Answer key, even if they did not answer it, right? Because they didn’t see it. So be careful when using show/hide triggers with your quizzes. If they, of course, answered yes and chose right, it would be considered a correct answer. If they, of course, wrong, it would be an incorrect answer. But just because it’s not seen, does not mean it is not scored. It’s part of the Answer key, it is scored.

All right, so this brings us to step three. In step three, we talk about our pass and fail messages. Now, they’re two separate messages, right? One of you actually get the score, in this case, 70% or higher. And the failing message is if you get below that score. You can customize this message to say anything you wish. And you’ll notice there’s some extra characters and some extra things in here that might not look familiar. These are what we call Merge Codes within SurveyGizmo. They represent and are dynamically replaced by some detail that’s unique to that survey response.

In the case of quizzes, we have four Merge Codes available that are listed right here in the middle for the pass/fail. You can have the total score that they received, the actual numeric value, not the percentage, just the percent sign is left off for easy calculation, the total number of questions that were scored, so it was out of how many quiz questions, how many they got correct and how many the individual got wrong. All of these can be included to customize your message, personalize it. So, in our case for a passing message, we’ve notified them that their score was a particular percentage. In the failing message, we’ve given them a bit more info, we’ve told them that they got a certain number correct out of the total number and we’ve given them what that score is by percentage. So you can really customize this.

Now we also have a Merge Code Helper that can allow you to include other answers. So, for instance, if you wanted to make the pass message or the failing message be something like a certificate that they can print off when they get there and they can bring that in, you can include information that you’ve asked for in the quiz. So, if you started out asking for their name and email address and other information, you can select those questions from this dropdown and insert a Merge Code. So, if I was to select this one here and I click the item, just put my curser in there and click, whoops, it’s actually not inserting properly and my mistake, it’s an adjustment they made recently, you can actually just copy and paste this or highlight it, copy it and past that in. And so this could represent their name and their email address and display that right on the page, so that when they print it out, it’s all there for them. So there’s a lot of flexibility there.

Finally, there’s a last option here for when they fail, you can check a box and it will show the correct answers to the online quiz questions that were answered incorrectly. So, let’s actually see that in action, I’m going to check that box, hit Save, it’s going to go ahead and save the changes I have to this quiz score, and I’m going to go ahead and reload the preview of our online quiz software. I’m going to get a lot of wrong answers here, so we can see the effect, which is human, just the golf ball, that, that, that and then that’s going to be all wrong, and I’m going to get one answer right just to keep things interesting, and I’m going to submit that.

Now, it’s displayed the customized message that I did get only 1 question out of 11 correct, but now you can see that it’s shown all of the other questions that are available. And you can see the breakdown, fowl is not an antonym to synonym, so it shows them not only the answer that they got incorrect and what they chose, but what the correct answer is. So that’s all presented for you. Also the last question that we did get correct, is automatically left off, so it’s only the ones that were incorrect are displayed here.

Let’s talk about the very last item here that we have listed: Run This Action When. Now this is using our Logic Builder and we’re not going to go into a super amount of detail, but you can choose whether or not this online quiz will run, based off of something else in this survey, it’s going to be in the quiz. So, maybe there’s a question at the very beginning that says, “Would you like to be scored on this quiz or are you simply revealing?” And if they say, “I’d like to be scored,” and they choose that answer, you can choose that question from this Logic here and say, “All right, I’d like to be scored,” that the correct answer, and therefore, it says, “If they answered they’d like to be scored, then run the scoring.” So, that’s one way you can make use of the Logic. Now, that’s the basics for a Pass/Fail Quiz, as we’ve kind of gone through it a few times.

Tally Quizzes

So, the next one we’re going to talk about here is our Tally Quiz. Now, the Tally Quiz is available for Pro, Enterprise and Dedicated plan levels. And as I mentioned before, it assigns a point value to the answer and then totals up those points at the end. Now, it also is different in the way that it displays like a pass or a fail. It’s a little more complex than that, but allows a lot of value. It’s also incredibly flexible for using for other purposes besides actually quizzing. So, let’s actually take a look at the Tally Quiz.

I’m going to go ahead and close this preview out and head over to my Tally Quiz. Let’s open up a new preview window for the Tally Quiz that I have prepared and we can take a look. Now, when you do a Tally Quiz, the points that are assigned to each individual item, are actually hidden from the user. In this example that we’re using here, I’ve included the point value that’s assigned to the right in parenthesis. This is only for your benefit. When you’re actually creating your quiz in our tally quiz software, that’s not something you’re going to want to include and it is not automatically included anyway, so it’s the Answer Key, just like with a pass/fail, is hidden from the survey respondent.

So, before you create your quiz, here’s that pro tip at the top. You want to create the tally quiz first, then fill out the Answer Key. Why? Because if you delete a question you’ve assigned point values to, you’re going to sort of have this ghost effect in the quizzing and it’s not going to understand what to do there and it’s going to change your tallying issues. So, with all quizzes and this is actually beneficial to the pass/fail, as well, always complete the quiz and get it fully built out first, and once it’s built, then start filling out your Answer Key for the correct answers.

All right, so let’s look at how the Online Tally Quiz scoring works. So, I’m going to choose a few point values and I’m going to go low here, I’m going to go to zero, zero and zero. Now, in the case of this example, we’re actually looking at their personality. This is a personality quiz, so they answer a few questions and we assign point values, depending on how they react to certain situations. Now, we’ve presented them with a score and it says, “Well, your personality section score was zero to three, you have a reserve personality.” So, let’s see that change. I’m going to change that to two to, and this is a checkbox, so I can actually select more than one. This is actually adding up to three and then a zero for a total number of points.

So, here we go, we’ve actually received seven points and that put us in a category to receive the message, “You have a balanced personality - four to seven.” So, we’re doing some scoring and customizing a message, based off of the score they received, nothing too out of the ordinary.

Now, let’s go ahead and review this and then review how this is built and then I’ll talk about one of the other cool features about the quizzes, as we continue through it.

So, here’s the online tally quiz itself. Now, just like any other online quiz, you’re creating your questions first. Get those built out and added in. Once those are created, you have an Answer Key. You’ll notice something different here. Our Answer Key is on page 2. You do not have to have your quiz score action and your Answer Key on the thank you page. The reason is you can include it at any point in time in your online quiz. How did I add it here? Well, when you make a quiz using our online quiz creator software, we automatically create one on the thank you page. Well, how do I get one in the middle? You click Add Action. There’s two methods, you can click Add Action at the bottom of the page or you can use the toolbar on the left side and drag and drop in an action. So, I’d like to place an action on page 2, I drop that into place and it says, “What action would you like?” You choose Quiz Score, give it a name and click Add and Edit Action, and that adds it right into the page.

So, if you created, say, initially a survey, you’d hit Create Survey and you’ve made a survey initially and then you go, “You know, I’d love to add some quiz scoring to this.” You can absolutely do that, just because it’s flagged as a survey, doesn’t mean you can’t simply click Add Action and add a quiz score to it.

So, let’s take a look at the Tally Quiz Score Action. Now, we’ll see, very similar in its layout, but you can see the type of quiz is chosen is a Tally Quiz. In step one, is where you’re setting those proper quiz answers and you’re adding the weight with the weighting and the point values. So, we have assigned an open textbox for each answer and we’ve assigned those point values. You see how they match up to what I have in the example. So, each one is given an answer. Now, let’s take a look at the actual, and I’m going to go back here.

Now, the question types are absolutely similar in that you can use radio buttons, checkboxes, dropdowns, table of radio button and table of checkboxes to go through this. So, those are all the same, but the behavior’s a tiny bit different. With a single select, you can, of course, only receive a certain point value, right? You can receive two points, one point, three points or zero points, depending on which answer you choose.

With a checkbox, they can select multiple answers. Now, this might be beneficial. In a personality quiz, if they have a lot of characteristics that are beneficial to a positive personality, and they check those, you’re going to assign a point for maybe, multiple points to a particular value and it’ll total those up. So, it continues to add a total, if you have multiple selections. So, we’ve assigned all of our point values, and you’ll notice we go further down and there’s a few other questions which we haven’t gotten to yet. These questions are left blank. Why? Because we don’t want to score them in this particular one. Just like the pass/fail, we can choose to ignore some questions and choose not to score them, and by leaving all of the boxes blank, it is not scored. You don’t want to put in zeroes, you just want to leave them blank.

Now we get to the kind of the fun difference, which is step two, where you apply your score ranges. So, instead of just two options, passing and failing, a Tally Quiz score offers up to ten different online quiz score ranges. So, you can see them listed here, one through ten, all the way down. In the first box, you put the starting range and the second range, you put the ending range. And as a note here points out, you always want to put it from lows to highs, so 0 to 3, 4 to 7, 8 to 11. If they receive the point total, a tally of between zero and three, including those numbers, they will see this particular message, which is what we were seeing when we were going through the preview and we changed it. If they get four to seven, they will see this message. These boxes support any HTML or text that you’d like to enter. So, you can really add in and make it colorful. You can add in this scoring and break that off for up to ten different sets.

Now, what happens if I was to overlap this? So, here comes the third quirk of online quizzes that you probably won’t run into, but if you do, you do need to do it, you’ll need to understand what will actually occur. If I have an overlap here, with a zero to four and then four to seven, and thus, when the Quiz Score Action goes to evaluate this and decide what message should they see, it will know that both one and two match, right? If they get four points. Well, it will choose whichever one is first. So, in this case, even though both of these share the same point value, the very first one that has that point value included in its range, will be displayed. So, if they had four points, they would see you have a reserve personality, zero to three. So, do be careful of overlap, as you’re going to cause, you won’t see both messages, you’ll actually only see the first message. That might be beneficial to you, but it’s a relevant distinction.

Now, what happens if you have more than ten score ranges, right? Maybe it’s a very complex, it’s 100 question quiz and there are 20 possible outcomes. No problem. You’re going to go ahead and create your first Quiz Score Action, and I’m actually going to just close this out here. Then copy that Quiz Score Action, using the Copy icon, edit the second one and it’ll have the exact same Answer Key as the first one, right? Same points using for quiz scoring, but then you’ll have an entire other set of ten answers, score ranges that you can set up, and you can change those around. Now, you’ll have to keep track of it in two separate places, but it allows you to essentially have 20 different ranges. Our limit is just ten within any single Quiz Score Action.

Now, you can also have, since you can copy it, well that’s great if you wanted to make a copy and have more ranges for a particular set of scoring, but maybe you’re scoring in two different ways. You’re welcome to do that, you can score a set of answers one way and skip a set of answers using a different Tally Quiz Answer Key and present your results all on the same page.

You have no limit on the number of the Quiz Score Actions add to your tally quiz. And with that, I actually want to move forward to our further example where we’ve gone personality, we hit Next, and we’re presented with some leadership questions. So, here we choose a couple of answers, and we hit Next, and the Leadership Quiz has an additional Quiz Score Action that has a completely different set of scoring. So, if I scroll down here, you can see that there’s a new Quiz Score Action, if I edit it, the Answer Key is going to look a little different, it’s skipped over any of the questions that were part of the first Answer Key. We’ve left those blank and we’ve entered in point totals or point values to each of the questions that are part of this section, and then, of course, provided our ranges and our scores.

So, we’ve combined both two quizzes into a single physical quiz project within SurveyGizmo. We have two separate, unique quizzes, just because we’ve entered two Quiz Score Actions, and thus, two unique Answer Keys. You can also see at the end here, we have a quiz score that is actually a summary of all of them. If I was to edit this, you would see that we’ve actually created it to have the exact same point values as the first two, but actually include all of the items. And then it provides an output for that. So, to see that in action, we hit Submit and it says you scored a total of 14 of 19 points.

Now, within the Tally Quiz, you also have the ability to enter in some special Merge Codes and there’s two listed on the left side here. You can do a Quiz Score, which will show the respondent’s actual score, the finite point value, if that’s something you want to include, and Quiz Total questions will show how many questions were actually scored, so it’s total number of questions that were used. So, those can be included right within your Quiz Score Action.

Now, this example of a Tally Quiz was for doing a personality evaluation. What’s another great use of it? Well, you’ve seen people use it to figure out, we’ve done it to help people find their plan levels, using an online Tally Quiz. People have used it to evaluate how much they need a person’s services, or how green or efficient something is, so it’s quiz to figure out efficient is your home, how energy saver, how eco you are and they take the quiz and answer the questions, and at the end, depending on how many points they earned, they receive an output and then they made recommendations. So, it was a client who, they took the quiz and they said, “Well, you scored really high, you did a great job,” but if they scored lower, they said, “Well, it looks like you scored a little bit lower, here’s some great resources online for you and if you’d like a private evaluation by my company, we can go ahead and do that for you and we can improve your score on this quiz and save you money.”

So, it was a way to have people, give them value by taking the quiz and understanding where they were and then also provide their services as a sale for those who’s relevant for. So, it’s just another way people have used quizzes within SurveyGizmo, as sort of a lead generation in one way.

Now, before we go into Questions and Answers, which has one extra section after that, before we go into Question and Answer section, I want to talk about making use of the quiz score in one other unique way. So, the Quiz Score Action itself is stored as a numeric value. It’s out of the total number of points they earned, the tally, or the percentage, which is also stored as just the numeric value, without the percent sign, in a pass/fail situation. That means that if you wanted to, not only could you display a custom message, but you could drive other Logic off of your tally quiz score.

You could add in an action that is an email action and just like Ender Send Email, you can add in a Send Email Action, send email, you can add that action in and once it’s added into your quiz, you can set a Send This Message When rule that sends this message only when they’ve answered, when they’ve gotten a certain score value. So, if they’ve scored, say, a 75, then they receive an email confirming that or maybe you notify somebody within your organization. Right? Maybe this is an online quiz, a training quiz that people are completing when they finish going through a week of training starting at your company or with your nonprofit organization and if they pass the online quiz, everything’s great, they get a certificate they can print out that you’ve made or if they fail, it also sends a email to somebody within the staff that says, “This person has failed the quiz,” so that person can touch base with them immediately.

So, there’s some extra Logic that can be driven off of the Quiz Score Action itself. Some people have even gone so far as to ask our Professional Services team to build some additional functionality, like a large certificate that would be emailed to them that they can print out that looks very pretty in HTML and other things along those lines. So, we can really customize and there’s some flexibility there within the tool.

All right, so we’re going to go into some Question and Answers and then we’ll wrap up with the last section.

Questions & Answers

So, there were a few questions here, I have the following question.

Can you insert an image into a question?

So, absolutely, we have an image choice question type that allows you to have an image be your actual selection. So, in our pass/fail quiz creator, we had the example of choosing which image is not an Acme product, absolutely, they can just click that, it can be single select or multi-select. For an online quiz, it can only be single select for a scoring.

Can I export my Answer Key to a secondary source? Like export it to Word, so I have that available to me?

The answer is not currently. You can, of course, load your Answer Key and print that page off. We don’t have currently an export of your Answer Key. I think that’s a really nice little improvement. If there’s a lot of support for things, we actually create features. On the right side of SurveyGizmo, there’s a provide feedback link. That’ll allow you to add in features that you’d like to request or vote on other people’s requested features, and you put your points, you get ten points total for your account, towards features that you’d kind of like to bump up the list, and the higher up the list they get, the more likely they are to be included. For instance, your newest Word import feature, excuse me, Import a Survey from Word, was based off of customer requests.

So, and, of course, with your online quizzes, when you export your data and you look at your results, your export will include their score, not the results they received, like, “Hey, you’ve passed, here’s your thing,” it’ll actually store in your data, so let’s say a CSV or an Excel export will include the numeric score value that they receive. So, you can make use of that, and with that, of course, in your exports, is any other information that you’ve collected.

So, next question we have here is setting an 80% for a passing score for a quiz and somebody wants to see what they got incorrect or correct.

So, we covered that earlier with that extra option to pass/fail the checkbox.

If you have a question that has multiple answers and the quiz taker can have credit for answering at least one right, do you use a radio button or a checkbox?

So, that goes to that difference between multiple answers. If there are multiple answers that will be correct, it must be a single select question, so a radio button, so that you can set your Answer Key to say that both a human and a cat are correct answers. So, if there are multiple correct answers, it must be a single select question type, like a radio button. So, thanks for bringing that up, so we could clarify that.

If we were doing pre-post quizzes, can the post quiz show both the pre- and post-scores?

So, there’s not built into the tool, a quick way can you show an online quiz is where the post-quiz will show their score from a previous quiz. If something like that is something you want to set up, I recommend getting in touch with our Professional Services team, there’s something we can actually build out and help you set up, where it can pull in some of that information and make use of that and see if that’s something we can do for you. But currently built into the tool, there’s not a tracking so you can see people as they progress through multiple quizzes and have those scores kind of follow them along.

So, somebody’s asking about using this for training, reviewing slides and taking a quiz.

So, absolutely. That’s a great use case, where if you have a slide deck, a PowerPoint presentation or something you put into, say, DocStock or Google’s Presentation, which is part of Google Docs, which is actually what I’m using for all of the presentation slides here, this is actually just a Google Doc, which is a presentation. You can actually embed these directly into SurveyGizmo. We allow you to add content to a page that is not an actual question. So you can add a text or image to your quiz. If I click text or image, I choose text HTML enrich media and inside here, I paste in the code that’s given to me in my example from Google, and that code will represent the slide deck that they can go through. Then, after they’ve reviewed it, they hit Next and they answer some questions about that slide deck.

Part of the features of SurveyGizmo is you’re able to take those, take away the ability to navigate backwards through your online quiz or your online survey, so they can always be moving forward. So after their feel, they’ve reviewed it, they can then take the quizzing on it, so you can include that. That includes also quizzing people on a training video, things like that, if you have a video you want to put up through YouTube or Vimeo or Vitler, you can store it there, embed it into your survey and go from there. So, great question.

Is there a way to add a survey at the end of the quiz or do you need to include a link to another quiz?

No, of course, you can include any other content you’d like with your quiz, it doesn’t have to be scored. And, once again, like we said, you can put the Answer Key and quiz score anywhere you’d like, it doesn’t have to be at the very end.

There’s a few more questions and then we’ll wrap up.

Can I insert an image into a quiz question itself, rather as an option within the answers?

So, absolutely, one of the methods, most people don’t put it into the quiz question itself because then you need to do it with some HTML, but it’ll usually just include an element here and they say, “I’d like to add an image,” and they’ll select an image that they’ve uploaded to their file library, and they can select that image and that’ll get inserted right into the survey and be placed in much like we have a bit of descriptive text here. So they’d see the image and then you ask a question about that image. If you really wanted to put it inside of the question itself, you can, you just need to know a little bit of HTML and inside your question title, you can add in the HTML text. Close that out real quick.

And the final question I have here before we wrap up”

Is there any easy way to randomize quiz questions using your online quiz creator software?

That’s a little bit out of the scope, but I’ll go ahead and address it, since we have a minute here. So, if you wanted to randomize, we have multiple ways through SurveyGizmo, our Pro accounts and above have kind of all the randomization available. You can randomize the answers themselves, so that’s an option you have. In Advanced, you can randomize the answers. If you randomize things, it won’t affect your scoring, because the scoring is linked to the specific question, regardless of how it’s displayed to the respondent, SurveyGizmo’s smart enough to understand the relationship.

So, you can randomize answers, you can randomize questions in a page, so at the page, there’s an option called Edit Page Options. And this allows you to randomize things under the Advanced Tab, where you can say I’d like to randomize all the questions on this page or show a certain number of questions on the page. In the case of quizzes, you want to use all questions on this page. And then, of course, we have page randomization, as well. So, remember, that’s the Edit Page options for randomizing questions within the page and then edit the question itself, you randomize the answers.

So, I wanted to actually cover the last item, bring this up, and on the last item, is actually a pass/fail quiz with immediate feedback. This is using quizzes in a unique way. Now, I can’t take credit for this, spoke to a teacher over a year ago, and they kind of came up with the idea and we ran with it and said, “Yeah, you can create that.” Using quizzes as more of a learning tool to teach people and train people instead of actually using it as a scoring mechanism. So, you can still score them, but you’re trying to reinforce positive, correct answers and if they’ve gone astray, inform them what the correct answer was and why. And this is actually a pretty neat implementation, it makes use of a few different features of SurveyGizmo and so, I’m going to actually demonstrate this, preview here.

All right, so we have an online quiz with immediate feedback. Now, a few things are going to happen as I answer these. One, after they’ve answered the question, it will erase the question, it will disappear from a page. This is a feature that’s unique to radio button questions, exclusively. Where once they answer, it disappears from the page.

The second bit of Logic that’s going to occur, is it’s going to use a Show/Hide Trigger to show a follow-up quiz answer. So, let’s see this in action. “True of false under specific circumstances, boiling water can freeze faster than water at room temperature.” That seems crazy to me, so I’m going to choose “False.” You’ll notice that question number one has now disappeared from the page, and it’s been replaced with a new message, this is using our Show/Hide Triggers and I’ll show you what this looks like within SurveyGizmo in a second. So, we’ve repeated and read, we’ve repeated the actual quiz question, so it’s clear, and they’ve gone ahead and let them know that that was incorrect, what the correct answer was and we’ve given an explanation for that incorrect answer.

So, we’re reinforcing like that was incorrect, here’s something else you should know to help you better get this question later and understand it. And we can move through the Bible of world’s best selling book, it’s also the world’s most shoplifted book, I think that’s true, and instead of, nothing to reinforce, it simply says, “That’s correct,” and gives that to you.

“A kiss lasting one minute can burn more than 100 calories,” I’m going to say that’s true, we all wish it would be, no, it only burns about 30 calories and then finally, what is the most popular sport in the world? That would be soccer and it says, “Correct.” And gives you some statistics around it.

When I hit Submit on this quiz, it’s actually besides all the other functionality that we have included here, that was not really through the quiz, the quiz portion was right here, it says, “I did not pass or receive the score 50%,” because I only got half of the answers correct.

So, let’s take a look at what this looks like within the SurveyGizmo online quiz software. It’s going to look pretty robust here, but the flow is very similar. We have a question, here’s the true or false quiz question, right? We have extra Logic applied to it and we have little handy tips here that says, “There’s hiding after response is applied here.” And there’s a Show/Hide Trigger, this is saying when they have answer true, we’re going to show them the correct, when they ansesr false, we’re going to show the incorrect answer. And these are just collections of text that we’ve included and formatted that are going to be shown. So, if I edit question number one, we can see that there’s the Show/Hide Logic for true, I edit that further, and we can see that it’s chosen to show this follow-up question, excuse me, this follow-up description. And for false, it’s chosen to show this one.

Under the Show When tab, Hide After Answering is an option for you and that’s checked, so it’s providing all that Logic. So, it flows that same way. Right? We have a question, we have the correct, incorrect answers. At the very end, we get to the end and we have our quiz score or action that has all the action details in it.

So, this is just a kind of a fun, unique way to make use of the other features of SurveyGizmo to make it a training situation, as opposed to just a way to score people and say, “You got it right,” or “You got it wrong.” You can train them, you can use as lead generation, quizzes are really powerful if you kind of step outside of the initial box.

If you do have any other additional questions, unrelated to quizzes or related to quizzes, our support team’s more than happy to help you out with any questions you might have, and depending on your account level, you can either email or call us and just use the Help and Support link at the top to get that assistance.

Other than that, that concludes this webinar, you are now a quiz master, congratulations. I really hope you make good use of quizzes, they’re my favorite thing here at SurveyGizmo. My name is Mario Lurig and this has been Quizzes: Pass/Fail and Tally Quizzes. Thank you so much, you have a great day.