Tutorial: Quizzes: Pass/Fail and Tally Quiz

SurveyGizmo offers two types of quizzes:

• Pass/Fail (Personal plan or higher) - Answers are either correct or incorrect based upon a key in the Quiz Score action and evaluated by a percentage of correct answers to determine whether the respondent passed or failed the quiz
• Tally (Pro plan or higher) - Options are assigned a whole number point value, which is used in the Quiz Score action to
  provide different messages to the respondent based upon an assigned point range (e.g. 10-19, 20-35)

Each of these quizzes can evaluate multiple question types. The following question types are available for Quizzes:

• Radio Buttons
• Checkboxes
• Drop-down menu
• Image Choice (single-select)
• Table/Matrix of Radio Buttons
• Table/Matrix of Checkboxes

Note: Image Choice (multiple-select) does not work, though it will display the question in the answer key in the Quiz Score action. Image Choice should not be used unless it is set as single-select.

Creating a Quiz

A quiz can be created at any point by adding the action: Quiz Score. You can add a Quiz Score action on any page in the survey that is after the questions you wish to evaluate with the quiz answer key. Click Add Action in the top or bottom right of any page in the survey (other than the first page) and then select Quiz Score.

Where do you set the answer key for the quiz?
When you first create the Quiz Score action and also if you Advanced Edit the Quiz Score action (notepad icon on the left side of the Quiz Score), you are presented with an answer key at the top which allows you to select the passing option(s) for qualifying question types or assign the tally value for the options.

Respondent Feedback on the Quiz Score

The method differs for the different types of quizzes, but both have the ability to output any text (HTML is ok) based upon the results of the quiz.
For a pass/fail quiz there are 2 different messages possible, one for if they pass and one for if they fail. The score needed to ‘pass’ is set at the very top, above the answer key.

For a tally quiz you can have up to 10 different score ranges to provide custom messages (text or HTML are both ok) to display based upon the score range. The score range must be set as an integer from lowest to highest (e.g. 10 to 25). Also, make sure that there is no overlap, because if you specify a range of ‘1 to 10′ and ‘5 to 15′ and the respondent scores a 7, they will only see the first message specified (in the above example, the message for ‘1 to 10′).

Quiz Score Special Merge Codes

If placed within the feedback messages, the following special merge codes perform specific functions:

• [[QuizScore]] - Shows the respondent’s score (integer value).
• [[QuestionsCorrect]] - Shows the number of questions the respondent got correct.
• [[TotalQuestions]] - Shows the count of how many questions were scored.
• [[TotalWrong]] - Shows the number of questions the respondent got incorrect.
• [[ExplainWrong]] - Shows which questions the respondent got wrong and displays the correct answer (reporting value).

Also, the question merge code for the quiz score action itself represents the same value as [[QuizScore]] does within the quiz score action itself. Therefore, you could use this to send their score through other actions, such as an email auto-responder or in a browser redirect. For more information on merge codes, check out the merge code tutorial.

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