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Essay Questions

Create an essay question

Essay questions require students to type an answer in a text box, and you need to grade these questions manually.

  1. When you create a test, select the plus sign to open the menu and select Add Essay question.

    The Test Content area opens where you create the Essay question.

    This is how the expanded Add question type menu looks like when you’re creating a new test.

  2. Select the Points box to type a new value.

    Questions have a default value of 10 points.

  3. To help keep your test content organized, you can add files within individual questions. Make a selection from the editor's Insert Content menu, such as Insert from Cloud Storage. To edit the files you added, enter edit mode for the question.

    Expanded Insert menu and points value for question number one in a test.

  4. You can use the options in the editor to format the text.

  5. Select Save.

Tip

To use your keyboard to jump to the editor toolbar, press ALT + F10. On a Mac, press Fn + ALT + F10. Use the arrow keys to select an option, such as a numbered list.

Add a model answer

You can include a model answer for essay questions to use as reference when grading.

Model answer when authoring essay questions

Students can see the model answer when reviewing their results if the test is configured to show correct answers. Students do not see the model answer when they take a test.

Student viewing the model answer along with their own response