With a Multiple-Choice activity, you can add multiple-choice questions to your Nearpod lesson. Multiple-Choice activities are auto-graded, so you'll know right away what students understand, and you can share out the results with students in real-time.
Note: Multiple-Choice activities in Nearpod have correct answers. If you'd like to create a multiple-choice question without correct answers, use our Poll feature. Learn how to make one here.
In this article, you'll learn how to:
- Teach with a multiple-choice activity
- Add a Multiple-Choice activity into your lesson
- How to use AI with Multiple-Choice activities
- Convert a Quiz activity into Time to Climb game
Teach with a Multiple-Choice activity
When students reach a Multiple-Choice activity in a lesson, they will see the first question with the multiple choice answers. They will choose one or multiple answers and submit their response.
Students can:
- Have text read aloud if Microsoft Immersive Reader is enabled
- Access reference media if the teacher has added it
- Proceed to the next question by selecting the blue arrow or Next
- Submit the Multiple-Choice activity when complete
As the teacher, you can view progress in real time for the entire class and share students' individual Multiple-Choice scores to their devices to provide immediate feedback.
- Correct answers will be in green and incorrect answers will be in red.
- To review the questions with correct answer, click the corresponding number.
Add a Multiple-Choice activity into your lesson
1. While editing your lesson, select Add Slide
2. Choose Multiple Choice from the Activities tab
3. Type your question and add up to 8 possible answer choices. Mark the correct response with a check on the left. You can select one or multiple answers as correct. You can use the Nearpod Equation Editor to add math icons and symbols to your questions. This option is the last icon in the rich text editor menu at the top of each questions box. You can also add reference media and or a timer to support your question. Use the check mark to select the correct response for each question.
4. Choose either Text or Images as an answer type. The Text option allows you to enter text answers, while the Images option supports uploading an image for each answer. Image-based answers include the option to add alt text for students with visual impairments.
5. Add additional questions (max 25) to complete your quiz. You can rearrange the order of the questions by dragging and dropping them.
How to Use AI with Multiple-Choice activities
Quickly generate relevant questions to use in your Multiple-Choice activity with Nearpod’s AI Create. See the AI Create article for step-by-step instructions.
Convert a Multiple-Choice activity into Time to Climb
Did you know you can convert a quiz into a Time to Climb activity to gamify your lesson?
1. Select a Multiple-Choice slide from the left side of the screen and click on the three dots in the upper right-hand corner of the slide, or right-click on the slide, to select Convert to Time to Climb.
2. Choose if you want to keep a copy of the original Multiple-Choice activity. Note that reference media and multiple correct answers will not transfer to the Time to Climb activity.