This article explains how you can use free text questions in your exam.
Creating a free text question for your exam
A free text question is one of the many question types available in our tool.
With a free text question, a participant can answer the question using their own words. The answer can be entered in the text field below the question. Answers are limited to 32,767 characters.
Grading the free text questions
These questions cannot be automatically graded by the system; the answers must be checked and graded manually outside our tool. It is also not possible to edit the results.
It is possible to allocate 0 points (which you can’t do with any other question type) to ensure that the final score in the system is unaffected by the free text question. This is also useful, for example, if you want to ask an evaluation question at the end of an exam.
Inform your participants
To ensure your participants aren't confused, you should inform them that scores will be finalized later on. The start page of your exam is a good place to do this. Go to Exam > Start page > Introduction text.
Alternatively, you can hide the score from the final Result page that participants see. You can edit these settings by going to Exam > Result page.
It’s not possible to manually add the score for the free text questions directly to our system. So you can grade and communicate the final score to your participants through other channels. All responses to free text questions, whether points are allocated or not, can be exported with the rest of the exam results.