Demonstration: Multiple choice type item

A Multiple-choice item asks the respondent to choose one correct answer from among several possibilities.

Here is a quiz on the subject of cinema. It already contains one multiple-choice item.

Under the Content tab, first I give a meaningful title to an item about film music. Then I state the question. Below, I can add from 2 to 30 potential answers, and match the answers with appropriate feedback. The Feedback fields are used to write an explanation or give meaningful feedback, rather than simply say Correct answer or Incorrect answer, because this general feedback is automatically given when the test is submitted, whether or not you have written feedback for each choice. You are not obliged to write feedback for each choice, but it is worth the effort for this enhances the teaching aspect of our quizzes. For this item, the answers are in text format but the small drop-down menu situated over the Answer column also offers you the possibility of using Image format. In the column Correct answer?, you must indicate which is the correct answer from among the choices by clicking on the appropriate button.

As in the case of the other types of items, the Add-ons tab allows me to include additional information. For this question, I have not written anything in the add-ons fields, but I have included a photo of Clint Eastwood. He was the main actor in a film directed by Sergio Leone. Our musical excerpt is, of course, from the soundtrack of this film, and is the subject of this question. To add a media file, we can either choose one that is already in our Netquiz Web library or import a new file from our computer.

This type of item includes, under the Parameters tab, in addition to the parameters that are common to all of the question types (Weighting, Automatically start media and Display correct answer), two special parameters. One allows us to choose the order in which the answers will be shown (Random or Predetermined). The other lets you choose the type of label that will be shown on the left of each matching pair in the published quiz.

I have now finished creating my item, and I will look at a preview of it in order to see how it will appear to my respondents when I publish the quiz online. The question asks which film the musical excerpt comes from. First I play the excerpt. Do you recognize it? It’s the music from the film For a Few Dollars More. I choose this answer, then I click on Submit. At the bottom of the screen, I have the confirmation that I chose the right answer. And the feedback tells me more about this film, which is part of the famous trilogy directed by Sergio Leone.

And that was the Multiple-choice item!