Guided Quiz

Quizzes allows users to receive health messages in a more interactive question and answer format. There are two types of quizzes. A Guided Quiz displays one screen or question at a time in a “wizard” format and a Form Quiz displays all questions at once in a list format. There are a number of options for customizing a single Guided Quiz, and this is typically the best display option for Viewport 1 (phone view).

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 one question at a time to users.
• Your questions, responses, and feedback are all around the same length. All sections have about the same amount of content.
• Short Guided Quizzes with concise content work well on Home Pages and frequently visited Content Pages to reinforce your key health messages.

When to Consider Something Else

• You would like to present a series of questions which can all be displayed at one time and it does not matter that users can see all questions in advance. See Form Quiz.
• 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 10 questions
• Question Text: User concise questions and consider question length when it wraps on smaller Viewports. Try to use consistent question, response, and feedback lengths so the Quiz doesn’t “jump” when users navigate through questions as the amount of content varies.
• 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.

Use the reusable Quiz content type to create and save a guided quiz.  In the Quiz form, select Guided as the format. (Make certain all quiz images are uploaded to the WCMS before creating the quiz.)

Key Options:

• Type of screen (question or information-only slide)
• Question responses
• Response feedback
• Randomization of question order
• Display of score
• “More info” links

Related Resources:  For more information on implementing quizzes, see the in-depth user guide: (link coming soon).