How to Create a Quiz in Forms

  • As an educator, you can use Microsoft Forms to quickly assess student progress and get real-time feedback through the use of quizzes that you design and share with your class.
  • You can create a quiz with questions that are required to be completed, display question hints, and even display students' points and feedback after they complete the quiz, which make for a more interactive learning experience for your students.
  • In your web browser, go to forms.office.com.
  • Sign in with your Microsoft 365 school credentials, Microsoft 365 work credentials, or Microsoft account (Hotmail, Live, or Outlook.com).
  • Under My Forms, click “New Quiz” to begin creating your quiz (Figure 1).


Figure 1



  • Enter a name for your quiz. You can also enter an optional subtitle for your quiz (Figure 2).


Figure 2




  • Click “Add Question” to add a new question to the quiz. Choose from Choice, Text, Rating, or Date questions. You can also click “More question types” to select Ranking, Likert, File upload, or Net Promoter Score® questions. Select Section to organize sections for your questions (Figure 3).


Figure 3




  • Enter the text you want to display for the question and each of the choices (Figure 4).


Figure 4




  • Want to add more choices? Click” Add Option” to add more choices than the default two choices. Click the Correct Answer check box button next to each correct answer. To remove a choice, click the trash can button next to it. You can also choose to make a question required or allow multiple choices for a question by changing the settings at the bottom of the question.
  • Enter a number in the Points text box to assign a point value for a correct answer to the quiz question.
  • Click the Message button next to the choices if you want to display a custom message to your students who select that choice as their answer (Figure 5).


Figure 5




  • To display math formulas, click More settings for questions, and then select “Math” (Figure 6).


Figure 6



  • Click in each question text box, and now Microsoft Forms displays various math formula options for you to use in your quiz (Figure 7).


Figure 7




  • Some math formulas will trigger auto answers (Figure 8).


Figure 8




  • Click on the suggested option to add it as a choice.
  • Click “Add Question” to add more questions to your quiz. To change the order of the questions, click the Up or Down arrows on the right side of each question. For text questions, select the Long Answer option if you want a larger text box displayed on the quiz.


Figure 9



  • Click Back when you are finished previewing or testing your quiz.



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Adapted from Microsoft 365 Help & Learning