Create a Quiz

Your Quiz consists of a Title (Quiz Name) and the Content (Images and/or written Questions). The Title should be on point, for example “World History” if indeed your Quiz is about World History. The Questions can be either based on images or written texts, meaning you can upload an image of something or create a written question. Of course, a combination of both content types is possible for your Quiz.

Any image that you upload should be in the 4-to-3 format (width x height) or be as close to it as possible. The minimum width of an image should be 1000 pixels. So, a perfect image format would be 1000 pixels wide and 750 pixels high (which would equate to the aforementioned 4-to-3 format). Another example would be 1200 pixels wide and 900 pixels high. If you upload images that are outside of the 4-to-3 format the system will center them automatically and cut off sections from the outer limits – so it will still work but might not look ideal.

Use the preview feature for the image upload to get a better idea. Please also make sure to only use images that are free to use (for example creative commons, public domain or other free to use sources). Image types can be JPG or PNG and can’t be bigger than 400 kilobytes per image.

For a written question please keep in mind that the text should not be too long. Generally speaking, two sentences should be the maximum. An example for a good question is “Who was the first president of the United States?” (Answer “George Washington”), while a bad question would be “In the history of the United States there have been many presidents. The first one was George Washington, but most people don’t know who the third one was and when he lived. Can you name him?” – In a normal conversation this question would be perfectly fine, however in an Online Quiz this would simply not fit into the format. Try to phrase your questions short and interesting at the same time.

For every image or written question, the final step will be to give the correct answer and then five wrong answers. Example: You show the picture of the Statue of Liberty. The correct answer would be “Statue of Liberty”, the five incorrect answers could be “Brandenburg Gate, Eiffel Tower, Great Wall, Pyramids, Empire State Building”. Try to make the incorrect answers challenging, so that it is not too easy to guess the correct answer by simply excluding the five incorrect answers. A bad example would be “What is 4 x 4?” with the correct answer being 16. Now, if you assign the following five incorrect answers (100, 1000, 2000, 5000 and 1 million) then it is too obvious that they are wrong, meaning you make the correct answer (16) too obvious/easy.

A Quiz should have at least 30 items (images and/or written questions) to be at least mildly challenging. Imagine a Quiz with only 10 questions... It would be over too soon, and it would have almost no replay value. Once you have created a Quiz and added images (and/or written questions) you can submit it to be reviewed for publishing. All your Quizzes will remain visible in your account under “My Quizzes” so you can edit them anytime.

Maybe you want to create a big Quiz with 200 questions but don’t have the time to finish it in one go – no problem, simply save it and then edit it later to complete it. The status of your Quiz (In Progress, Submitted for Review, Live) is always visible in your account.