How to Create a Quiz: The Ultimate Guide

Before jumping to the steps, you need to ask this question:

What's the goal you want to achieve with a quiz?

Do you want to -

• Assess the performance of your learners?
• Check the knowledge retention levels after a training course is completed?
• Grow engagement levels on your page?
• Increase your website's traffic?
• Generate more quality leads?

Based on what your requirement is, you can decide to create a quiz. But do see if a quiz is the right tool to go for. In some cases, when you only wish to get your customers' thoughts/reviews /feedback about your product or service, you needn't create a quiz but a survey or a poll.

Online quizzes, on the other hand, are suitable for driving website traffic, generating qualified leads, building engagement, assessing knowledge retention, and more.

Watch this video to be clear about the type of tool you wish to use:

The next step involves deciding the quiz topic. Be clear about what your quiz is going to be about. If you don't already have anything in mind yet, here's what you can do:

Analyze your audience: Know who is going to take your quiz. The benefit of creating a quiz is realized when you tailor your quiz according to your audience.

For instance, if you're going to share your quiz on social media, you should know what type of audience you want to target. You can group your audience based on their age groups, their interest, their gender, etc., and then decide the quiz topic that they'll most relate with.

Here's what you can do to analyze your audience:

1- Use Google Analytics- It has a lot of data about your audience if you know how to find it. We’ll talk about it in a while.

2- Use Facebook Insights- This can help in quickly finding out the active users' demographics and the topics that such users commonly share about.

Once you've successfully identified your target audience, you can decide the quiz topic very easily.

Let’s understand how this works.

This screenshot has analytics of a website that publishes content related to relationships, the articles most viewed by people can be used to develop quiz topics.

An article topic such as “20 Most Common Marriage Problems Faced by Married Couples” can be used to create quizzes, such as:

• Is My Marriage In Trouble?
• Can My Marriage Be Saved?
• Marriage Problem Assessment Quiz

A topic like “Feeling No Emotional Connection With Your Husband” can be used to create quizzes, such as:

• How Well Do You Connect Emotionally With Your Husband?
• Are You and Your Partner Emotionally Compatible?
• Quiz: Identify Your Partner’s Emotional Needs

You can also check out the 25 Most Popular Quiz Categories.

There are two simple ways to create a new quiz. You have the options to make use of professionally designed, ready-to-use quiz templates or creating your quiz from scratch.

In this chapter, you will learn how to create a quiz using both the methods. Let’s see how to make use of quiz templates first and then we’ll go over learning to create a quiz from scratch.

Using a template is the easiest way to create a quiz. It is like half the battle won! ProProfs solves the most difficult part of creating a quiz - thinking of questions - with its massive library of over a million ready quiz templates.

You can go about exploring as many scored quiz or personality quiz templates as you’d like, and then choose the one that you wish to create your quiz with in just a few minutes.

Depending on your requirement, you can choose from two types of quiz i.e. scored quiz and personality quiz.

Scored quizzes are the most popular quiz type. The primary application of these quizzes is online exams or tests. Online scored quizzes support automated grading and scoring, which means as learners take the quiz, their score is calculated on a real-time basis and the final result is the sum of all the points secured in the quiz.

Questions can be graded in advance and learners get instant feedback and test results. Here are some examples of scored quizzes:

Geography Quiz

Math Quiz

Driving Skills Quiz

Super Sports Fan Quiz

Market Research Quiz

Employee Satisfaction Quiz

Customer Service Training Quiz

• Step-1. Click On 'Create a Quiz'. You’ll land on the templates page.
• Step-2. Click on Create Scored Quiz to explore scored quiz templates.

• Step-3. Pick a template & preview it by clicking the preview button. It will give you a fair idea of how the quiz will look.

After you've previewed the template and wish to use it, simply click on the 'Use this template' button.

• Step-4. If you want, you can add, delete, or modify questions with the help of a question library.
• Step-5. Personalize your quiz by adding your logo. You can also modify the title of the quiz, the description, the cover image, the background image, and play with themes.

Jump to: Create a Scored Quiz from Scratch

Personality Quizzes use questions as a way to assign a character to quiz-takers. These are perfect for drawing analogies between someone’s personality and a target product and became popular with the advent of social media platforms like Facebook.

Personality quizzes are the most shared type of content on Facebook as they are a fun tool for your users to learn more about themselves. For a business, this means quizzes that people will love taking and sharing are going to generate more leads and sales.

Does Your Personal Finance Plan Work for You?

Do You Need Home Insurance?

Are You Ready to Sell Your Home?

Do You Have a Good Work-Life Balance?

Test Your Leadership Skills

Are You Ready to Date Again?

• Step-1. Click 'Create a Quiz'. You’ll reach the templates page.
• Step-2. Click ‘Create Personality Quiz’ button to explore personality quiz templates.

• Step-3. Pick a template & preview it by clicking the preview button. It will give you a fair idea of how the quiz will look.

After you've previewed the template and wish to use it, simply click on the 'Use this template' button.

• Step-4. If you want, you can add, delete, or modify questions with the help of a question library.
• Step-5. Personalize your quiz by adding your logo. You can also modify the title of the quiz, the description, the cover image, the background image, and play with themes.

Creating scored or personality quiz content from scratch means a little more work than using a template but it also means that you can change and customize a variety of things right from the beginning.

Here’s how it works:

Step-1. To create a scored quiz from scratch, click ‘+Create from Scratch’. This is going to land you in the ProProfs quiz editor.

In the quiz editor, start building your quiz by clicking on 'Untitled Quiz' to add a title and description to your quiz.

You can also upload a display image for the quiz or add one from the image library/Google Images. Don’t forget to save your changes by clicking Done in the upper right corner.

You can either create new questions or import questions from ProProfs library of ready-to-use questions on thousands of topics.

To import, search for your quiz topic and choose from the question library. Select the questions you like and click on 'Add questions.' The questions will be automatically added to your quiz.

Also check, how you can:

• ➜Bulk import questions from excel
• ➜Create questions based on different difficulty levels
• ➜Create question banks based on topics

Bonus Tip: Keep a good mix of different types of questions to make your quiz engaging.

For scored quiz questions, you can pre-assign scores to the correct answers while adding the quiz questions to save yourself from grading each question manually. The sum of all the scores will then be displayed at the end of the quiz as the final score/result.

To add Instant Feedback, select the question you want to add feedback to and click on 'Edit Question.'

In the window that appears next, click on 'Advanced' and then choose the type of feedback you want to add.

After selecting, add your feedback in the feedback box and click 'Save.'

Working on the results page is as important as adding the right questions to your quiz.

When creating a scored quiz, you can either select a simple result type like Pass or Fail, letter grading, good or excellent, or create customized results.

A good idea is to create results first and then group scores according to the results.

Let’s say, if you create results as Pass or Fail, you can group scores 10-30 under 'Fail' and 40-100 under 'Pass.'

Here are the steps to create a personality quiz from scratch:

Step-1. Select ‘Personality Quiz’ as a quiz type and then click ‘+Create from Scratch’ to build your own personality quiz.

In the quiz editor, start building your quiz by clicking on 'Untitled Quiz' to add a title and description to your quiz. You can also upload a display image for the quiz or add one from the image library/Google Images. Save your changes.

Since personality quizzes feed on the human tendency to 'know more and more about ourselves,' quiz outcomes are of utmost importance in a personality quiz and should be the center point around which the entire quiz is built.

After all, the goal of personality quizzes is to lead quiz-takers to a final outcome.

Also, creating quiz outcomes beforehand makes it easy to create questions and answers that lead quiz takers to their results, instead of trying to do it the other way around!

For instance, if you're building a quiz called "What Kind of Shopper Are You," the most common outcomes could be- Impulsive, Bargain, or Practical.

So, you'll need to build questions, each with three answer choices that would lead the quiz takers to one of these outcomes.

For example, if your quiz has four possible outcomes, then you'd have to create questions with four answer choices, each mapped to one of the four outcomes.

You'll need to create a separate result page for each outcome. And mind you, the results HAVE to be positive and upbeat.

For example, the outcome 'Impulsive' for a quiz called "What Kind of a Shopper Are you?" might appear derogatory to some but, with a positive description attached to it, it wouldn't appear as such.

Here's how you can write the result for the outcome- The Impulsive Shopper

Once you've finalized the outcomes and created the results page, it is time to add questions.

After you’ve created the quiz outcomes and results, you can move to adding questions to your quiz.

The questions for a personality quiz that group or assign a personality can be as simple or as complicated as the creator wants.

A new creator can keep the personality quiz questions extremely simple. But, you’ll have to provide answer choices according to the number of outcomes.

Let's take the quiz example from above- "What Kind of Shopper Are You?"

Since the quiz has three possible outcomes, you'll need to create questions with three answer options each.

It's better if you use more multiple-choice questions. Why? Because it is easier to add image-based answer options that'll make the personality quiz more engaging.

For example, for the 'What Kind of Shopper Are You' quiz, you can use the following questions and answer options:

Question- Pick your favorite movie character who loves to shop.

The above question has three most renowned characters who love to shop from three different Hollywood movies- Clueless, Confessions of a Shopaholic, and The Devil Wears Prada.

There's no way a person taking a quiz to find out what kind of shopper they are wouldn't have watched these movies!

Similarly, you can create audio and video-based questions and answers for your quiz.

Also Check: How to Create the Most Engaging Quiz Questions

After you've added your answer options, you'll then need to match each answer option with one particular outcome.

In some quiz makers, you can also allocate points to each result type associated with a question, as shown in the image below:

The personality with the most points would then be selected as the final result.

And that's it!

Using the personality quiz maker, make fun personality quizzes and share with your friends using Email, Twitter, or Facebook.

Want to learn how to make a quiz on Facebook? Read these amazing tips.

Here’s how personality quizzes look like once created:

Quiz: Which Anime Character Are You Most Like?

Are You Truly An Entrepreneur Quiz!

Based On Your Personality, What U.S. City Should You Live In? Quiz!

Which Hogwarts House Do You Truly Belong To!

Using a mix of different types of questions like multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blanks, matching, etc., works really well when you're creating a quiz and need to ask questions in an engaging way.

Here's how you can use different types to ask the right questions:

1. Multiple-Choice Questions

This is one of the most popular question types used in quizzes, tests, and exams. A multiple-choice question presents multiple answer-choice for a single question, out of which one is correct, and the rest are distractors.

Multiple-choice questions work best when the goal is to enhance learning as you can add feedback to the wrong answer-choices that'll help turn a mistake into a learning opportunity.

2. Essay-Type or Open-Ended Questions:

Essay-type questions require a detailed-lengthy answer. This question type is useful when you need to gauge your learners' thoughts, views, and ideas. Learners are given ample space in a box to write their answers. However, you can decide on the word-limit and size of the box.

3. Checkboxes or Multiple-Response Questions

A multiple-response question type is quite similar to the multiple-choice question type. The only difference is that a multiple-response question can have more than just one correct answer option.

This one is slightly difficult from the multiple-choice question type as learners often get confused about how many answers to choose. Also, this question type is the most suitable for partial-grading.

4. Fill-in-the-Blanks

Fill-in-the-blanks type of questions require the learners to actually know the answer since these don't have any kind of guess games or hints. You can use this type of question to evaluate the real knowledge of any topic.

5. True or False Questions

True or False questions are one of the easiest ways to frame a question. This simply involves creating a statement that is either true/false related to the concept that the question has stemmed from.

6. Matching Questions

Matching questions involve two lists of words, pictures, phrases, etc. Each item in the first list has to be matched with one item in the second list. It can cover a large amount of information and makes for an engaging question type.

7. Comprehension Questions

Great for testing reading and comprehension skills. These questions are created based on a passage provided to the learners. The learners read the passage and then answer questions based on their understanding of the passage they read.

8. Hotspot Questions

Great for testing the visual proficiency and observation skills, hotspot questions make for a great visual question type. In a hotspot question type, learners are supposed to select a particular area of an image as their answer.

Using the hotspot question types alone can make for an engaging online quiz.

Learn how to create a quiz using hotspot questions.

9. Video Questions

The Record Video question type enables quiz takers to respond with a video. Quiz takers can record a video in real-time or upload a previously recorded file.

It’s a fun and engaging way to answer quiz questions for learners and an easy medium for interview candidates to introduce themselves. Students can present their ideas, projects easily and businesses can prompt customers to quickly record video testimonials for them.

Here’s how a Record Video Question appears in a quiz:

10. TypeIn Questions

This question type is great for testing knowledge retention. Quiz takers are presented with Hints in the first column and are required to type in their answer in a text box provided next to it. Hints can be visual or text-based depending on the nature of your question.

Make your quiz more appealing and interesting, by adding images & videos to your questions or answers. Brand your quiz by adding your own logo. Add background images, change fonts, themes and more to give your quiz a unique personality. Watch this video to learn how to customize your quiz in minutes.

Before sharing your quiz, ensure that you configure important quiz and security settings to prevent cheating on your quiz and prevent unauthorized access.

To do this, you can:

• Randomize the order of questions
• Limit the time for answering questions
• Time your quiz

Make sure your quiz is completely secured against unauthorized access with settings like:

• Enabling only private access to the quiz with a link or by enabling password protection
• Disabling printing of the quiz
• Disabling tab switching
• Setting IP range based availability

You can also set up the information you want to require before someone takes your quiz under 'tracking.' Furthermore, adjust the date and time settings of your quiz, automate reminders for incomplete quizzes, set quiz expiration date, and ensure ongoing compliance.

It's up to you to decide how, where, and when you want to share your quiz and set quiz availability. You can:

• Share your quiz via email: Send your quiz to multiple people at once via email. Type multiple email addresses separated by commas or bulk import contacts from mailing lists.

• Embed your quiz on your website: Easily embed the quiz on your website by pasting the embed code so your users can attempt it without ever leaving your site.

• Share your quiz on Facebook: Share your quiz on the Facebook page by pasting the quiz link. Your audience can then click on the link to land on your website and attempt it there.

• Set up an online classroom: Create an online classroom when you have a large group of learners to assess. Administering large groups of learners becomes easy in an online classroom.

You will simply have to create groups of learners based on the topic of your quiz, location, role or any other grouping that makes sense to you. For example, all people in an office or one team can be in a group. You can also add group admins and instructors and assign them different roles and permissions.

You can either add learners in bulk or allow learners to self-enroll and embed the classroom on your website.

Watch this video to learn how to set up an online classroom, or check out the steps to set up your virtual classroom here:

• Embed your quiz on Shopify: Make money by offering your quiz as a product on the Shopify store.

• Embed your quiz on Blogger or WordPress: Easily embed your quiz on Blogger or WordPress.

This is the final part of the quiz creation process after you've created, designed, configured, and shared your quiz. Online quiz makers have many reports to help you understand the performance of learners starting with the basic individual grade report showing score, question grading etc to more advanced statistics such as hardest question, easiest questions etc. to help you understand the performance of all students as an aggregate.

• View Recent Activity Reports: Track quiz takers' progress across all quizzes or track activity by any common field across all quizzes.

• View Advanced Progress Reports: Track all activities of learners, members of a quiz group, and all activities related to your quiz account.

• View Grade Book Reports: Analyze the overall performance of quiz takers, like their total points and average quiz scores.

• Download and Share Reports & Stats: View, download, and share different kinds of reports for a detailed analysis of the information of people who attempted the quiz.

• Add Instructor Feedback in Reports: Provide overall feedback, such as general feedback or suggestions to improve performance in the quiz reports.

Templates make the process of creating a quiz 10x easier and more efficient. You don't have to think about questions to add, the sequence of questions, adding images, or any other thing. Just explore, preview, choose, and in just three steps, you'll have your quiz up & running and ready to share.

Many quiz makers offer over 100 personality quiz and scored quiz templates that are designed by professionals keeping in mind various business and education needs. These are segmented into different categories.

For instance, scored quiz templates are categorized into business, education, fun, sports, and more.

Similarly, personality quiz templates are categorized into lead generation, business, education, fun, and more.

Each category has subcategories leading to more options for the users, as shown in the images below:

Using a template brings down the difficulty level of creating a quiz by at least 90% as most parts of the quiz creation process like creating, designing, configuring, etc., are already taken care of. You may, however, modify or make any changes wherever you want to and get your quiz ready within minutes.

Just like using templates can bring down the difficulty level of creating a quiz, using a question library can help you deal with the most difficult part of creating a quiz from scratch — thinking of the questions to add.

Question libraries have over thousands of ready-to-use questions on thousands of topics.

You just need to search for a topic to explore questions related to it. Then, choose your questions from a list of quizzes that appear.

Suppose you need questions related to 'JAVA,' then here are the steps that you'll follow:

Once you've selected a quiz that you want to import questions from, you can then check the boxes against those questions. You can also import all the questions at once by checking the box against 'Select All.'

The selected questions will then be added to your quiz. It's that simple!

The title is the first thing about the quiz that is noticed by anyone; the quiz image is the next. So, technically, your quiz title is the point of contact with your audience. Which is why it's important to create titles that compel the audience to take your quiz.

Also, creating titles for personality quizzes is a lot more challenging than creating titles for scored quizzes, but it's a lot more fun too.

Your quiz titles must strike an impression with the audience at once but also make it clear what the quiz is all about.

Here are a few common templates that can be used for creating titles:

• "How Much Do You Know About…………" titles
• "Take this quiz, and we'll tell you…………." titles
• "Are you a ………….." titles
• "Are you a true ……. Fan" titles for quizzes that tap into fandom
• "Answer these 'n' questions, and we'll tell you if you………." titles

Imagine this- You come across an ad about this new restaurant in town with a very pretty interior and an attractive appeal, so much so that you decide to take your family there on a Friday night dinner. But, when you reach there, it turns out that they have poor service, tasteless food, and don't even serve half the cuisines listed on their menu.

What a disappointment, right?

The same thing happens when your quiz has an attractive image, a catchy title, but the questions aren't engaging enough.

You will surely get the audience to take your quiz with a catchy title, but once they start attempting it, you need to make sure that the main element of the quiz, i.e., the questions, are engaging enough to keep them hooked till the end of the quiz.

If the questions aren't engaging enough, it is most likely that many of the quiz takers will get bored and leave the quiz unfinished.

Need more help on how to create the most engaging quiz questions? Then check out this handy guide.

Let your quiz remain fun and engaging; don't make it boring and irritating by adding too many questions. The ideal length of a quiz is 8-12 questions.

Short quizzes are easier to complete and more engaging than long quizzes. The longer they get, the more likely your quiz-takers will be to abandon your quiz.

Only add questions that are the most relevant to your quiz and your quiz takers. For example, if your quiz targets entrepreneurs, it doesn't make sense to add questions about employee compensation. Instead, add questions about the most popular ways for small businesses to get funding.

In case it’s an academic quiz then you may have to add more questions to gauge the learners’ knowledge levels.

A great tip that would work here is- Instead of adding too many questions of the same type, use a mix of question types.

This will not only help you mind the length of your quiz but also make your quiz engaging.

One of the main reasons people end up taking a quiz is them seeing the quiz results from their friends/peers who first took the quiz and then shared their results. Quiz results that are positive and reveal some new information about the person taking that quiz are often the ones that are most shared.

For instance, a quiz called "Take this quiz, and we'll tell you what type of entrepreneur you would become" can get you excited about knowing more about your existing or hidden entrepreneurial skills. You may end up taking the quiz and share the quiz results with your friends to see what type they get.

However, this may not happen if the quiz results are not positive and tend to let someone feel bad about themselves. They might get embarrassed or angry, might not want to share their quiz results with anyone, which is why it is important that you create not only engaging but positive quiz results.

Lead generation is by far one of the most useful merits of quizzes. Since quizzes are engaging and people love taking and sharing quizzes, they make for an ideal resource for lead generation. With a carefully customized lead form placed at the right section in the quiz, capturing your quiz-takers’ information like their names, addresses, contact numbers, etc., becomes quite effortless and easy.

Here's what a simple lead form looks like:

You can customize your lead form based on the types of info you want from the quiz taker. You can change, add, or remove fields, change the background image, and more.

For example, in ProProfs Quiz Maker, you can configure quiz taker information tracking by going to Quiz Settings >> Security as shown in the screenshot below.

Anything placed on the internet is capable of being misused. This is why it becomes very important to secure your quizzes. What's meant here by "prone to misuse" is-

• Information leak regarding quiz-takers' data
• Unauthorized access
• Your quiz being shared by someone else as theirs
• People cheating on a scored quiz

There's a lot that can go wrong if your quiz isn't secured. So, before you share your quiz, make sure your quiz is well-configured to reach maximum security. Some of the ways that you can do so are as follows:

• Randomizing the order of questions on a scored quiz: To prevent quiz takers from copying each others' answers.
• Disabling tab switching: To ensure quiz-takers can't look up answers on the internet.
• Disabling printing of the quiz: To make sure your quiz isn't passed around without your approval.
• Password protection: To ensure only those with unique credentials can access the quiz and avoid unauthorized access.
• Defining users & admins: To ensure only those with certain permissions can make changes to the quiz.

Lincoln High School

John Mitchell, chairman of, science department, Lincoln High School in West Virginia, said that they were looking for a testing mechanism to enable 700 students spread across the globe to visit their website and take tests.

So they used an online quiz maker software to create online tests and embed them on their website. The students loved taking tests as they were allowed four attempts to reach higher scores. The teachers loved the automated grading feature as it saved them from hours of manual grading and the customizations that played to their creativity. They could now spend more time interacting with the students. So far, they've created over 700 quizzes and continue to create more.

Read: How Do Online Interactive Quizzes Enhance Learning

Ringling College of Art & Design

At Ringling College of Art & Design, the teachers were spending many hours in a week just grading quizzes and contacting trainees to inform them about their scores, and editing the training database. It was time-consuming and drained them of their energy. They were looking for a quiz solution that would help them automate the grading process.

Their search finally came to an end with an online quiz software in which they found all that they were looking for to solve their challenges- the ability to add questions from a question bank, automated scoring, and an intuitive database.

With most tasks being automated with the help of online quiz software, they didn't have to bother about grading quizzes or even contacting trainees to tell them their scores. The software does all of that!

Nebraska Department of Health

The Nebraska Board of Physical Therapy needed an online mechanism to test the knowledge of over 2200 licensed therapists to meet the added requirement of passing an open book exam.

So, they used an online quiz software to create online tests with automated grading and real-time reports. With the ability to link reference information to their quizzes, they could help their students learn while testing.

Canadian Parking Association

The Canadian Parking Association made use of the online quiz software to replace their paper-pen based tests with online tests having automated grading facilities for 150 multiple-choice questions. The simplicity of the tool worked really well for them.

Acer

One of the world's top ICT companies, Acer, used quizzes to train and certify their employees about their new product releases. They created a training system that includes online training, assessment, and certification with full-fledged customizations and customer support. They found it easy to set up the training assessment to include question bank and collaboration amongst course creators.

Access to Counseling

Access to Counseling, a company dedicated to helping people meet the challenges of life through counseling, support, and follow-up, needed a steady training tool to train their ever-growing contractors and employees.

They created an online training program with quizzes that helped them keep track of everyone who completed the training and of those who didn't. They were successful in reducing their paper-consumption as all the information was now being recorded in their online training program. Overall, they were able to make the process of training more efficient and easier.

ThermoFisher

Like Acer, ThermoFisher, too, wanted a reliable software solution to provide training to and assess hundreds of employees spread across the globe. Using a quiz maker, they could create and share online assessments with their global sales force. The online assessments were enabled with automated grading, and statistics were autogenerated. What helped them the most was the fact that they could see the questions that most of their assessments had trouble with, leading them to finetune the training process.

John Baker Sales

John Baker was struggling with hiring 'smart' people for his company John Baker Sales. Prior to using ProProfs, John used to create paper-based tests to test candidates' skills and block half an hour every day. It cost him a lot of energy and time.

It was after he discovered an online quiz software that he could come up with a smart solution for hiring smart people.

For the past five years now, they've been creating pre-screen tests to assess candidates before the interview round. If the candidates fail to meet the minimum score requirement on the tests, they're automatically eliminated from the interview round. This has helped John Bakes Sales save a lot of time and effort.

It also made their hiring process a lot more efficient and helped them hire only the candidates best suited for their respective job roles.

Heinrichs Partners

Jay Heinrichs, the author of the New York Times bestseller, “Thank You for Arguing”, wanted to create persuasion quizzes for social media to make his book look like courses on rhetoric.

He used an online quiz maker to create quizzes with shareable results as a marketing gimmick. But, what he did not see coming was that after he started posting quizzes, his book caught educators' attention and soon was being assigned to students in their classes. Since then, he has sold over 400,000 copies of his book.

Nancy Naigle

USA Today's bestselling author Nancy Naigle created quizzes as an interactive way to engage her readers with the characters of her books. According to Nancy, the quizzes were a hit, and she could see readers talk about the quiz all the time at book signings all over the nation.

With tons of quiz software available on the internet, it can be difficult to choose the right one.

For example, the tool ranked number one may not suit your needs, while the one ranked number five may perfectly fit your requirements.

Adopting a wrong or less than optimal quiz authoring tool can cause more problems than solutions. Also, changing your learning & training tools is often expensive, cumbersome, and requires recreating all your quizzes, assessment tests, and learner records.

Choosing the right tool is always the key.

But the question is - how to choose the best quiz software?

Let's take a look at some of the key features and benefits of the best online quiz software.

• Ease of use
• Availability of questions

ProProfs solves this problem with its massive question library with over a million ready-to-use questions. It makes creating quizzes on any topic extremely easy.

Additional important factors to consider include:

• Ability to reuse the content you've already developed.
• Quiz sharing: Via email, embedding them on your website, and sharing via social media.
• Automated grading: It’s a feature that trainers, recruiters, and teachers can't afford to miss. For example, with a good software tool, you can assign points to questions and configure results based on score. It is a major time-saver as answers are automatically graded for hundreds or even thousands of learners, and feedback is delivered instantly.
• White-labeling: Another essential feature that you should look for as it lets you brand your quizzes as your own. For example, you can customize the look and feel of your quizzes by adding your logo, playing with themes, colors & more so your quiz resonates with your brand.
• Security: The online quiz software should let you prevent cheating by learners and ensure the protection of your online quiz data.
• Progress tracking: While learners take the quiz, your software should allow you to track their progress in real-time. For example, you should be able to track who all have attempted the quiz and who are yet to. You can also generate detailed reports with their scores, number of attempts, average score, time spent in completing the quiz, and more.
• Easy accessibility: Also, online quizzes are loved more when they can be accessed anytime and from anywhere and work seamlessly across devices and platforms, such as smartphones, laptops, and tablets.
• Awesome support: Many online quiz software providers go the distance when it comes to delightful support. Human support, a call or chat, help centers, product training courses, insightful articles, and much more are of utmost importance when choosing an online quiz software.
• Sell quizzes & courses online: If you are someone interested in making money with your quizzes or courses online, look for e-stores where you can list your learning material. For example, ProProfs Store offers an easy-to-set-up online store where you can list your work and start selling in minutes. You can add coupons & promotions, set up multiple payment options, enable SEO, and more. Watch this video to learn how it works.

If you're able to check off most of the above with your choice, you can rest assured that you've chosen a good online quiz maker software.

Also, for your reference, here's a list of the ten best online quiz maker software that you can explore.

Online quiz makers are oceans of possibilities that you can dive-in and find the most treasured learning solutions.

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