Create Online Assessments with Questionmark Perception

Question Types

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Captivate

Macromedia Captivate allows you to create a visual presentation, rather like a slideshow: The presentation can include 'pauses' between the individual 'screens' where, at these points, questions can be included. For example, a Captivate presentation about safety at work could show a series of screens showing a person operating an industrial machine, with pauses between the individual screens to allow the participant time to respond to questions.

Drag and Drop

Participants place several 'markers' on an image using the computer mouse to indicate their answers.

Essay

Designed for long, open-ended text questions that are answered with free text essays. These can be scored with Scoring Tool in Enterprise Manager | Results Manager or by other methods outside Perception.

Explanation

Strictly speaking, not a question type at all: Used to display large bodies of text in information screens or title pages.

Fill in the Blanks

The participant enters text in one or more text boxes.

Flash

A Macromedia Flash question enables you to use a Flash animation which presents a question to the participant and returns the answer to Perception.

Hotspot

The participant places a single marker on an image using the computer mouse to indicate their answer.

Likert Scale

A Likert Scale question is a form of multiple choice question where participants select their answer according to whether they agree or disagree with a statement. Typically used in questionnaires.

Matching

A matching question offers the participant one or more choices that can be selected from a drop-down list. Within a matching question, a particular choice can only be selected from one of the drop-down lists, even though it appears in all of them.

Matrix

There are a number of choices on a number of rows. The participant answers by selecting one choice from each row.

Multiple Choice

The participant answers by selecting an answer from a list of two or more choices.

Multiple Response

The participant answers by selecting multiple answers from a list of two or more choices.

Numeric

The participant enters a number in a text entry box.

Pull-down List

The participant answers by selecting choices from pull-down menus, displayed to the side of several choices.

Ranking

A ranking question requires the participant to define the available choices in the correct order.

Select-a-blank

A select-a-blank question invites the participant to choose the correct word or phrase from a drop-down list that corresponds to a blank area of text.

Text Match

The participant enters text in a text entry field to answer a question.

True/False

A True/False question is a form of multiple-choice question with the choices 'True' and 'False' supplied by default.

Yes/No

A Yes/No question is a form of multiple-choice question with the choices 'Yes' and 'No' supplied by default.