How to Create a Scored or Assessment Quiz

The three most common types of interactive quizzes are personality quizzes, scored quizzes and assessment quizzes. In this guide we will cover how to create a scored or an assessment quiz with Woorise.

A scored quiz type allows you to assign a point value to each question answer in your quiz (values can be positive or negative numbers). At the end of the quiz, the score is tallied by adding up all point values assigned to the question answers that were selected by the quiz taker.

As the quiz creator, you can select the score ranges assigned to each quiz result to determine which total score ranges will map to a specific result.

Since each quiz question has answer options with a certain point value associated with it, your audience’s quiz results will be based on the total number of points your quiz taker receives after they complete the quiz. Typically, the more points your quiz taker gets, the higher their IQ or total score is.

A scored quiz can give your quiz taker a score after they complete the quiz, but an assessment quiz will immediately show which answers are correct or incorrect so people can learn as they go. The assessment quiz might feel familiar since it mirrors the multiple-choice tests you once had to take in school.

Create the Quiz Questions

woorise scored quiz
  1. For your quiz questions, you’ll need to use the Quiz field under the Form > Advanced Fields.
  2. When you create a quiz field, you’ll first need to create the question. You may find it helpful to give each question a description as well.
  3. Next choose your quiz field type and enter your options. Your options are radio buttons, checkboxes, or a drop down.
  4. If your question has a correct answer, click the check mark next to that option. This is how Woorise knows how to score your quiz. For example you might designate one option as the correct answer so you can reject participants who select something different.
  5. If your question doesn’t have a clear answer, you may want to give each option a weight. For example you might award people with more experience more weight.
  6. Once you’re happy with your question, make sure to check the Required box at the bottom of the quiz field settings so users have to provide an answer before submitting. Repeat this process with your other quiz questions and Save your form.

Quiz Question Options

  • Use Image Choices: Allows you to use images as selections.
  • Randomize order of choices: Randomize the order in which the answers are displayed to the user. This setting affects only the quiz front-end. It will not affect the order of the results.
  • Enable Answer Explanation: The Answer Explanation is shown to the user if Instant Feedback is enabled in the form level Quiz settings. The explanation will be shown immediately after answering each question. You can also display the explanation with the quiz results on your form’s confirmations or notifications via merge tags (i.e. {quiz:id=1} or {all_quiz_results}),

Scoring Rules

Normal scoring is a simplistic right or wrong grade for each question. Weighted scoring allows you to specify different scores for each possible answer. For example, you could make one question worth 3 points for the correct answer, or even make wrong answers be a negative score. This affects how percentage score is calculated, so we have added some examples here to show you how it works.

Normal Scoring Rules

Under normal (non-weighted) scoring, a correct answer (the answer identified in settings with the checkmark/tick) counts as 1, and an incorrect answer as 0. As such, the percentage score will be the percentage of correct answers.

Questions hidden by conditional logic at the time of quiz submission will still be counted in scoring calculations. They register as an incorrect answer.

If a multiple choice question has multiple correct answers, then a user must select them all for the question to be presented as correct (e.g. in the results summary).

Weighted Scoring Rules

Total score available for a question

This total score available for a weighted score quiz question depends on the Quiz field type used. Calculated as follows:

  • For a single-choice Quiz field type, the total score available is defined as: Value of the highest scored answer.
  • For a multi-choice Quiz field type, the total possible is different: Sum of all positive scores assigned to answers.

This means that for a single answer question with multiple scores, the user may get 100%, even when selecting an incorrect answer, if that incorrect answer was weighted with the same (or greater) score as the correct answer.

The “correct” answer marker has no affect on weighted scoring, but does affect the display of correct and not-correct summaries in the quiz results.

0% quiz floor

Percentage score for a quiz can never be less than 0%, and will be rounded up to 0.

Hidden question scoring

Questions hidden by conditional logic at the time of quiz submission will still be counted in scoring calculations. They register as an incorrect answer.

Configure Quiz Settings & Grading

Once you have all of your questions in place, your next step is to configure the grading system. When you added a quiz field to your form, a new section appeared under Form Settings > Quiz. This is where you’ll implement a grading system.

woorise quiz grading settings

Quiz Settings

  • Shuffle quiz fields: Randomize the order of the quiz fields on this form each time the form is loaded.
  • Instant Feedback: Display correct or incorrect indicator (✔︎ or ❌) and explanation (if any) immediately after answer selection. Once an answer has been selected it can’t be changed unless the form is reloaded. This setting only applies to radio button quiz fields and it is intended for training applications and trivial quizzes. It should not be considered a secure option for critical testing requirements.

Grading Settings

By default Grading is set to None, but if you would like to add the calculation of an overall grade to your quiz, you can select either Pass/Fail or Letter grading options.

Pass/Fail

woorise pass fail quiz grading

Pass/fail grading lets you set a percentage threshold for passing the quiz. For instance, if you set the percentage at 70%, the user would have to get 70% of the questions correct to pass and see the Quiz Pass Confirmation. If they score under 70%, they would see the Quiz Fail Confirmation. You can customize these messages, including HTML.

  • Pass Percentage: Identify the percentage score the user must equal or exceed to be considered to have “passed.”
  • Display Quiz Confirmation: Present the user to either a pass or fail confirmation message upon submission of the quiz form. You can specify the exact text of either message in the applicable boxes using the rich text editor.
  • Disable Auto-formatting: Woorise will sometimes automatically add paragraph spacing to your text to help readability. If you’ve carefully crafted your layout (e.g. using HTML), select the Disable Auto Formatting checkbox to disable that function.

Letter

woorise letter quiz grading

Letter grading lets you assign a letter based on the pass percentage. For instance, you could award an A to anyone who scores 90% or above. You can use any letter you like and set any percentage. You can also set the confirmation message users see.

  • Display Quiz Confirmation: Present the user to either a pass or fail confirmation message upon submission of the quiz form. You can specify the exact text of either message in the applicable boxes using the rich text editor.
  • Disable Auto-formatting: Woorise will sometimes automatically add paragraph spacing to your text to help readability. If you’ve carefully crafted your layout (e.g. using HTML), select the Disable Auto Formatting checkbox to disable that function.

Configure Confirmations & Notifications

In the confirmation messages (thank you pages) you can give your users feedback about their submission. You can also create email notifications if you want to send an email to the participant with their quiz results.

The Quiz field comes with several new merge tags you might find useful. These can be used anywhere within Woorise forms where merge tags are supported, but they’re primarily used to output results in confirmations and notifications.

  • {all_quiz_results} – Displays all the results of the quiz fields in the form.
  • {quiz_score} – Displays the number of correct quiz answers.
  • {quiz_percent} – Displays the percentage of correct quiz answers.
  • {quiz_grade} – Displays the grade the user achieved if the form uses letter grading.
  • {quiz_passfail} – Displays either “passed” or “failed” if the form uses pass/fail grading.

View Quiz Results

While it’s possible to view your quiz participants’ results under Entries page, the Reports > Quiz page is a better way to view all that data.

This analytics page gives you a high level view of the form’s submissions in an easy-to-understand format. You can even filter this data based on date and field selection.

Quiz results are calculated dynamically on request, as such, if you change the correct answer (or the weighted score) on a question, all past Quiz Results will be re-calculated when viewed again, which may vary from what was previously presented in the results dashboard, or to the user at the time they completed the quiz.

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