Working with questions

The toolbox on the Template Designer tab of an assessment template contains various types of questions, such as checkboxes, text boxes, and date pickers. You can use these question types to add questions and statements to the canvas to elicit input from the user conducting an assessment.

Click a question on the canvas to view the available settings.

Icon Description

Edit the title.

The edit icon appears when you hover over the question title. Alternatively, you can provide a title in the Properties.

Click and drag the question to a different location on the page.

Tip To move a question to another page, you can:
  1. Click to add the question to the toolbox.
  2. Go to the page on which you want to add the question.
  3. Drag the question from the toolbox to the page.

Delete the question from the building area.

Tip If you think you might want to use the question at a later time, or add it to another page, you can click , to add the question to the toolbox. Deleting a question from the building area does not delete it from the toolbox.

Specify whether or not the question title is visible.

Specify whether a response to the question is optional or mandatory.

Click to toggle between the two conditions.

: Optional (default)

: Mandatory

Copy the question. The copy appears directly below the active question.

Add the question to the toolbox.

Note You can add up to three questions, for a total of 13 question types in the toolbox. If you have 13 questions types and you add another one, the last question type in the toolbox is overwritten.

Question type label, for example

The question type.

For some question types, you can click this button to toggle between two similar question types. Specifically:

  • If the question type is Single input, you can click this button to change it to a Comment, and vice versa.
  • If the question type is Checkbox, you can click this button to change it to a Radiogroup, and vice versa.

Click to show the question properties in the Properties.

Click to add another choice to radiogroup or checkbox question.