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Single Choice Question

Use single choice questions when you want learners to rule out wrong answers and identify the single correct response.

María Isabel Zuleta Zapata avatar
Written by María Isabel Zuleta Zapata
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The single-choice question offers several choices with only one correct answer.

Use single-choice questions to check if learners have learned facts and routine procedures that have one clearly correct answer.

How to create a single-choice question in Easygenerator

  • You can select this or any other type of question from different places within your course. It can be from the general "Add item" button, as well as the "Add" one that appears when a page is opened:


    Or you can click on the plus sign (+) in between pages/sections and inside sections where it says "Add page":

  • Once the question is added to your course, you can start adding the question title and instructions.

  • Fill in the answer options. Click the ‘Add answer option’ button to create more options. Mark the correct response.

  • Create feedback for correct and incorrect answers. You can include explanations for each answer option.

  • Optional: add a voice-over, and consider enabling the survey mode

  • You can reorder, delete, and copy the answer options at any step of creating the course. Hover over the answer option block and use the respective option that appears.

Tips for writing good single-choice questions

  • The question instruction should be meaningful and state a specific problem that focuses on the learning objective. 

  • Do not use negative phrases unless it's absolutely necessary. They confuse the learners. Use them only when the learning objective requires it. And, emphasize it with italics.

  • A good question instruction should ideally be a question and not a partial statement. 

  • The answer options should be credible. The incorrect options should act as plausible distractors. If the alternatives are not reasonable, then the correct answer is evident. You do not want the learners to be able to guess it easily. 

  • Make sure all the options are parallel, of similar length, and have consistent grammar.

  • Avoid using alternatives like ‘all of the above and ‘none of the above’. 

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