Answering questions

Questions sit inside lessons, not on a separate quiz page. Answer them where you find them and move on.

You usually get one attempt at a question. Read it before you answer, and if you are not sure what is being asked, ask the person running the course rather than guessing.

The six kinds

Multiple choice

Several options, one right. Choose one and submit.

A written answer

A box to type in. There is no automatic right answer — a person reads it and scores it, so it will show as waiting until they have. Write it properly; “yes” is rarely a complete answer to a question somebody bothered to set.

Fill in the blank

A sentence with a word missing and a box for the word. Spelling matters, but not as much as you might fear: capital letters, extra spaces and a full stop on the end are all ignored. “Jerusalem”, “jerusalem” and “jerusalem.” are the same answer.

Choose all that apply

Several options and more than one is right. It is marked all or nothing — you need every correct option ticked and no incorrect ones. Missing one is the same as choosing a wrong one.

Put these in order

A list to arrange. Drag the items into order, or use the dropdown beside each one if you would rather not drag — the two do the same thing, and the dropdowns are there for touchscreens and keyboards. Every item has to be in its place.

Matching pairs

Two columns to pair up. Choose the partner for each item on the left. Every pair has to be right.

After you submit

Questions with one correct answer are marked immediately and you see whether you were right. Written answers wait for a person, and show as such until they have been read.

An instructor can change any mark afterwards. If you were marked wrong on something where you think you had the right idea — a differently worded blank, a reasonable reading of an ambiguous question — it is worth asking. They can award full or partial credit once they have seen what you wrote, and the mark they give replaces the automatic one.

Why the answers are in a different order from your classmate’s

Some questions shuffle their options deliberately, so the shape of the answer is not something that can be passed along. The question is the same and so is the marking; only the order on screen differs.

Seeing how you did

Your points and what is still outstanding appear on the course page as you work. See Seeing your results.