Creating "style" quizzes.
September 2, 2020 12:10 PM Subscribe
I would like to create a "What kind of _____ are you?" quiz for a work training.
The participants would answer a series of true/false statements and the program presents their "style" based on total score on groups of questions. The quiz is primarily to stimulate group discussion during a online training; so I do not need, and even prefer not to capture, the results. I have Captivate 2017, Office 365 Forms, and Survey Monkey as my possible tools. My skill level is between basic and intermediate on all; but I can generally learn new skills with tutorials. That is, if said new skills are point-and-click built in program functions. I do not know, and will not be able to learn, any type of coding.
My focus has been on Captivate. I can use the built in quiz generator. I know how to assign "scores" to smart shapes outside of the software generated quiz questions to link to a total quiz score. But, I cannot figure out how to separately score groups of questions to generate 'highest score' in a particular category. I have been unable to google-up any helpful tutorial. I have not explored much yet on Survey Monkey or Office; a coworker is not optimistic.
So, before I give up and have participants do their own scoring:
Is my quest possible with Survey Monkey, Office 365 Forms, or Captivate 2017?
If yes, what phrases should I be using to search for tutorials/forum discussions?
If no, are there any low/no cost, non-spam options? (previous questions specifically tackling
this are over six years old)
The participants would answer a series of true/false statements and the program presents their "style" based on total score on groups of questions. The quiz is primarily to stimulate group discussion during a online training; so I do not need, and even prefer not to capture, the results. I have Captivate 2017, Office 365 Forms, and Survey Monkey as my possible tools. My skill level is between basic and intermediate on all; but I can generally learn new skills with tutorials. That is, if said new skills are point-and-click built in program functions. I do not know, and will not be able to learn, any type of coding.
My focus has been on Captivate. I can use the built in quiz generator. I know how to assign "scores" to smart shapes outside of the software generated quiz questions to link to a total quiz score. But, I cannot figure out how to separately score groups of questions to generate 'highest score' in a particular category. I have been unable to google-up any helpful tutorial. I have not explored much yet on Survey Monkey or Office; a coworker is not optimistic.
So, before I give up and have participants do their own scoring:
Is my quest possible with Survey Monkey, Office 365 Forms, or Captivate 2017?
If yes, what phrases should I be using to search for tutorials/forum discussions?
If no, are there any low/no cost, non-spam options? (previous questions specifically tackling
this are over six years old)
Best answer: Is there a reason you don't want to use one of the free personality quiz makers such as uquiz.com?
posted by yarntheory at 3:59 PM on September 2, 2020
posted by yarntheory at 3:59 PM on September 2, 2020
Alternatively, if your quiz software will let you make different questions worth different numbers of points, you can do this with place value. Suppose you want to know if someone is a crouton-petter and if they like beans. Make all the questions about croutons worth 10 points, make all the questions about beans worth 1 point, and make sure you don't have more than nine of either type of question. For example, if you have three questions about croutons and three questions about beans, a score in the 20s or 30s shows that someone likes croutons, and a score ending in a 2 or a 3 shows they like beans. You could then write different messages for different score ranges, or you could just ask participants to look at the number they got for themselves.
If you have more categories, add questions worth 100 points, 1000 points, etc.
posted by yarntheory at 4:16 PM on September 2, 2020
If you have more categories, add questions worth 100 points, 1000 points, etc.
posted by yarntheory at 4:16 PM on September 2, 2020
Response by poster: My cursory searches for quiz makers yielded very unprofessional looking interfaces. Uquiz is nice and clean. Thank you.
posted by wg at 4:27 PM on September 3, 2020
posted by wg at 4:27 PM on September 3, 2020
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Get each participant to open a copy of a spreadsheet you have prepared and enter their TRUE or FALSE responses into some cells. Then you could prepare some predefined rules for computing their "score" for each "style" category based on the enterered responses. For example, if participants are asked to enter their responses to 10 true/false questions into the cells B1 through B10, and if a TRUE answer to questions 2, 3 and 7 are indicators of a high score for the "crouton-petter" style, you could define a rule such as "=INT(B2+B3+B7)" in some other cell to compute a score for that style, and label it as "crouton-petter style score", which would compute a numeric score from 0 to 3.
Sending a bunch of people an excel spreadsheet is not a fantastic user experience, particularly for people who may be participating via a mobile or not have access to excel, but the same thing could also be done as a web page using a spreadsheet in google sheets -- each participant could be sent a link to a google sheet they could open in their web browser. I'm not sure how well this would pan out exactly with people entering data, maybe you would need to make a copy of the spreadsheet for each participant and send them their own individual link.
posted by are-coral-made at 2:42 PM on September 2, 2020