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Best way to score a quiz which has both multiple choice and short answer questions

  • December 2, 2025
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Hello everyone!

I’ve been working on an interactive quiz for my team’s Christmas online gathering and I’m trying to work out how to score both multiple choice and short answers (I’m including riddles as part of the experience so need free form typing to be an option); these need to feed into three Ending versions, based on scores (excellent, good and bad performance). 

Would using the Knowledge Quiz Mode be the only way to do this?  If so, I only want to make this one-off quiz so does anyone know of any special offers I might be able to use as paying for a one-off or regular subscription is a little too costly (I work for a charity).

Many thanks,

 

Sarah 

James

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James
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  • James
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  • December 2, 2025

Hey ​@SarahM sounds like a really nice way to celebrate with your colleagues 🎅 And yes, Knowledge Quiz mode is a great option for doing this. It is possible to score answers to short questions and apply scores to the answers but you need to have some guardrails (e.g. the spelling needs to be perfect, or you set some logic that accepts various variations of the phrasing). 

Typeform does offer discounts for NGOs (25% off monthly plans, 40% off annual plans). Check out this page for more details and to apply: https://help.typeform.com/hc/en-us/articles/360039728951-Non-profit-NGO-and-student-discounts-at-Typeform

BTW, earlier this year we ran an in-person trivia quiz, implementing “live leaderboards” after each round via Google Sheets. I documented the process and setup with some templates in case it’s helpful for you: 

 

Cheers!

john.desborough
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