Form Quiz

Quizzes allows users to receive health messages in a more interactive question/answer format. There are two types of quizzes. A guided quiz displays one screen/question at a time and a form quiz displays all questions at once in a list format. There are a number of options for customizing a single form quiz. A form quiz is best displayed on a stand-alone content page, rather than embedded within other content on a page.

When to Use

• You have defined key health messages and want to present these messages to users using an interactive question answer format.
• You would like to display all questions at once to users.
• Your questions, responses, and feedback vary in length. Some section content may be significantly longer than others.
• You are willing to dedicate an entire page or a significant part of a page to a Quiz.

When to Consider Something Else

• You would like to present a series of questions one at a time and it does matter that users can see all questions in advance. See Guided Quiz.
• You aren’t interested in placing the Quiz on a Home Page.
• You want to track a specific user’s completion of a quiz or provide structured training. These needs may be better addressed with CDC’s eLearning Workgroup.

Other Guidance

• Quiz Design: Consider the quiz taker’s perspective when creating and ordering quiz questions and providing supplemental content. A non-WCMS user who is involved in quiz preparation may need a demonstration of how certain quiz options affect the display of quiz content and the user’s interactions with the quiz.
• Question Number: 5 to 20 questions
• Question Text: User concise questions and consider question length when it wraps on smaller Viewports
• Response Feedback: Well-crafted response feedback is critical to making the most of quizzes as a health communication tool. For this reason, response-level feedback is essentially required in that the quiz taker will not see a “correct” or “incorrect” indication unless response-level feedback is provided for the selected answer.