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Configuring a Multiple Choice Question

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Set up a Multiple Choice widget's answer options and correct answers in a roomy Configure dialog, opened right from the canvas.

A Multiple Choice widget has two kinds of setup: what the question asks (its options and how they're laid out) and how it's graded (which answers count as correct). Both of these live in a dedicated Configure dialog so you have room to work, instead of squeezing them into the narrow right sidebar.

Opening the Configure dialog

Select a Multiple Choice widget on the canvas. A floating ⚙ Configure button appears just above it.

Click ⚙ Configure to open the dialog. From top to bottom it has:

  • A live preview of the widget, so you can see exactly what the question will look like on the canvas while you edit (you can't see the widget itself behind the dialog).
  • Scoring — whether the question contributes to the score. The Scoring switch, Points, and Group work the same for every scorable widget.
  • Content — the answer options, how many a learner can pick, and which answers are correct.

Setting up the question

Work in the Content section:

  • Add, rename, remove, and reorder the answer options. To reorder, drag an option by its grip handle (⋮⋮), or focus the handle and press the up and down arrow keys. With Randomize Order on, students see the options shuffled anyway.
  • Choose whether learners pick a single answer or several.

New options are named Option 1, Option 2, and so on. Rename them to your answers.

The options arrange themselves to fit the widget, so there's no layout or column setting here — resize the widget on the canvas instead. See Multiple Choice Widget for how each shape reads.

A question needs at least two options, so the Remove control turns off once you're down to two.

Marking the correct answer lives right next to the options: click the round checkmark beside an option to mark it correct. For "What is the capital of France?", click the checkmark next to Paris. Click a green checkmark again to clear it. The checkmarks and Correct when stay visible even with Scoring off, because Show correctness and the On All Correct Selected / On Wrong Selected behaviors still use them.

A new question starts with its first option marked correct. With the default settings (Single selection and All Correct), the question has exactly one right answer, so clicking another option's checkmark moves the mark there. You don't need to clear the first one yourself.

If you let learners pick more than one answer (Multi), clicking a checkmark adds that option to the correct answers instead. Mark every option that should count, and use Correct when to decide what's right:

  • All Correct: every correct option picked, and no wrong one.
  • At least One is Correct: any correct pick is enough.
  • Exactly one, and it's correct: a single pick, and it's a correct one.

With Single selection, At least One is Correct and Exactly one, and it's correct also let you mark several options. Each one is accepted as a right answer, which is handy when two answers are equally good ("Ocean" and "Sea"). Only All Correct keeps a single selection to one marked option.

Reading the choices aloud

The Read choices aloud section sets whether the options can say themselves for children who can't read yet: Off (the default), Tap to hear, tap again to choose, or Speaker on each choice. With it on you also choose Read all, the Voice (the lesson's narration voice or the device's voice), and press Generate audio for all choices to make every clip at once. Each option gets Spoken words (leave blank to use its label) and Say nothing. See Multiple Choice Widget for how students use it.

Using an image as an option

Click the image button on any option to pick a picture from your media library. A small thumbnail appears beside the option, and its text box stays: students see the picture, and screen readers read that text as the option's name. Describe what the picture shows ("A red apple"), not whether it's right. A name like "Correct" or "Wrong" reads the answer aloud to anyone using a screen reader. Use the ✕ beside the option to remove the image and go back to a text option.

Saving your changes

Nothing you change in the dialog affects the widget until you save it. The canvas keeps showing the last saved version while you work.

  • Save applies your Content and Scoring changes to the widget.
  • Cancel throws the changes away and leaves the widget as it was. Pressing Esc, clicking the ✕, or clicking outside the dialog does the same thing. If you've made changes, you'll be asked to confirm before they're discarded, so an accidental click can't lose your work.

Heads-up warnings

The dialog watches for a few common setup mistakes and shows an inline warning, with both an icon and a short message, next to the control it affects (and a one-line summary near Save):

  • Scoring is on but no option is marked correct.
  • Single selection with All Correct and more than one option marked correct, so no answer can ever be right. Clicking checkmarks can't cause this, but switching Selection from Multi to Single (or Correct when to All Correct) keeps every mark you already have. Clear the extra marks, or switch back.
  • The question has fewer than two options.
  • An option is blank or duplicates another.
  • A picture option has no name, or its name gives the answer away (like "Correct" or "Wrong").

These are reminders, not roadblocks — you can still Save with a warning showing if that's really what you want.

What stays in the sidebar

Only Content and Scoring move into the Configure dialog. Style & Layout — colors, spacing, and the rest of the widget's appearance — still lives in the right sidebar, the same as every other widget. Select the widget and the sidebar shows its Style & Layout settings while the dialog handles the question itself.

Showing correct/incorrect feedback

In Style & Layout you can turn on Show correctness. When it's on, a learner who taps an option immediately sees whether their pick was right or wrong — the option is outlined in the Correct or Incorrect color you choose just below the toggle. It's off by default (a graded quiz usually shouldn't reveal the answer on tap), so turn it on for practice or self-check questions.

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