One right answer among options.
Templates
Pick a shape; the content is yours.
111 shapes a question or a quiz can take, in 12 categories. A template is only the shape: the content is yours or Procto AI’s, and the rules are the quiz’s settings. 111 are in the builder now; the rest have their pages so you can plan for them.
Selection
A choice between options. 12 templates.
A selection question offers options and asks the student to choose. The options carry the difficulty: a good set makes the student decide between plausible answers, and a poor set gives the answer away. It is the most used shape in assessment because it is marked at once, by rule, at any scale.
More than one option is right; each box counts.
The fastest question there is.
A third state lets a student say they are unsure instead of guessing.
Pick the best option and the worst. Tests judgement at both ends.
The student also says how sure they are. Scoring rewards knowing what you know.
Several options are right and the count is not given.
Click every instance of something in an image.
The options are pictures, not words.
The options are audio clips: music, language, sound.
Put the options in order from most to least likely.
Strike out the wrong options: each one struck earns its share, and striking the right one loses the question.
Text input
A typed answer. 10 templates.
A text question asks the student to produce the answer rather than recognise it: a word, a phrase, a sentence, a paragraph. The shorter the answer, the more it can be marked by rule against a list of accepted answers; the longer, the more it needs a reader with a rubric.
One missing word or phrase in a sentence.
Several gaps in a paragraph. Grammar, vocabulary, fluency.
One to three sentences, graded against a model answer or a rubric.
A choice, then the reason for it. Tests why, not only what.
A single-word answer, matched exactly or with a slip allowed.
Name N things, in any order.
Name the items in the sequence they happen.
A sentence in one language, typed in another.
An open definition, graded against a rubric.
A passage condensed into N words. Comprehension and brevity.
Pair and order
Match, sort, sequence. 9 templates.
Pair-and-order questions ask the student to arrange: match items across two columns, put steps in sequence, sort items into groups, rank by a criterion. The knowledge tested is relational: not what a thing is, but how it goes with other things.
Items in two columns, joined up.
One item on the left matches several on the right.
A scrambled paragraph put back into order.
Scrambled lines of code put back into a working program.
The steps of a process, in order.
Events placed in date order.
Items dropped into named groups.
Items into groups, then the reason for one placement.
Items ordered by a stated criterion.
Spatial and visual
Draw, label, locate. 14 templates.
Spatial and visual questions put an image in front of the student and ask them to act on it: click a part, outline a region, label, build, find a place on a map. The answer is a position or a structure, not a word.
Click the right part of an image.
Draw round an area on an image.
Draw, mark or label freely on an image.
Labels dragged onto the parts of an image.
Parts dragged onto a canvas to assemble a diagram.
A hierarchy built from nodes: a concept map, a family tree, a decision tree.
Nodes and the links between them.
A sequence with branches.
Click a place on a map.
Outline a region on a map.
The differences between two images.
Which of two images meets a criterion.
Regions of an image filled with the right colours.
A visual sequence completed.
Media prompts
Audio, video or an image as the question. 9 templates.
Media questions carry a clip, a video or an image as the prompt, and ask for a typed or chosen answer. The information is in the sound or the picture, not in the text, so the student must listen or watch.
A clip, then a typed answer.
The clip plays one time only. Tests real listening.
Listen and transcribe.
Two clips; the difference, the similarity, or the correct one.
What made the sound: an animal, an instrument, a letter.
A clip as the prompt, pictures as the options. For readers-to-be.
A video, then the questions.
A caption or summary for an image, a clip or a video.
The origin, style, period or author of a piece of media.
Memory and recall
Shown, hidden, asked. 5 templates.
Memory questions show something, hide it, and then ask. A list, a passage, an image or a sequence appears for a counted number of seconds, and the question comes when it has gone.
Content is shown, disappears, and then the question comes.
A sequence shown briefly, reproduced from memory.
Content, a forced pause, then the question. Retention over a delay.
The question itself is visible only for a few seconds.
An image flashed briefly, then questions about its details.
Voice and performance
Spoken or recorded answers. 8 templates.
Voice questions ask the student to speak: pronounce a phrase, give a spoken answer, read aloud, present, perform. The recording is made in the browser and kept with the attempt for assessment.
Say the word or phrase; the recording is assessed.
A recorded answer, assessed for what it says.
Record, see the transcription, confirm or correct it.
A conversation with a character: a customer, a patient, an interviewer.
Given text read aloud; fluency, accuracy, pace.
A vocal or instrumental performance, recorded.
A longer spoken piece on a topic, recorded.
Structured questions asked aloud, answered aloud.
Handwritten and files
A photo, a scan or a file as the answer. 6 templates.
Upload questions take a file as the answer: a photo of handwritten work, a drawing, a document, code, a set of screenshots. The question happens on paper or in another tool and the evidence comes back as a file.
Written on paper, photographed, uploaded.
Written or drawn with a stylus or a finger, in the quiz.
A document, an image, code or any file.
A photograph taken with the device camera.
Several files as one answer: code, report, screenshots.
A document edited with tracked changes.
Specialised input
Maths, code, music, chemistry. 11 templates.
Specialised shapes fit particular subjects: a maths expression typed and checked, working shown step by step, code read or written, a chemical equation balanced, notes on a staff, cells in a grid, a number scored by how close it is, a passage highlighted.
An equation or expression, typed.
Symbols and numbers arranged into an equation that satisfies a constraint.
A multi-step solution, set out step by step for a reader to grade.
A program written and run against test cases.
Read a program; answer what it does.
Each line or section of a program explained.
An equation written and balanced.
Notes placed on a staff.
Answers typed into cells of a grid.
A number scored by how close it is.
The words or sentences in a passage that answer the question.
Young learners
Large targets and little reading. 8 templates.
Shapes for young learners are built for small hands and early readers: big buttons, pictures as options, a spoken prompt with pictures to choose from, counting objects, letters dragged to spell a word, a path traced, a pattern continued.
Picture to picture, or picture to word, with large targets.
Tap a part of a picture. Big, forgiving zones.
A spoken prompt, and pictures to choose from.
Multiple choice with buttons a small hand can hit.
A picture; tap the number.
Letter tiles dragged to spell a word.
A path traced from start to end. Pre-handwriting.
A pattern of shapes or colours continued.
Graduate and doctoral
Research, defence, peer review. 6 templates.
Graduate shapes ask for the work of research: synthesise several sources with citations, defend a position with evidence and counter-argument, critique a methods section, write a grant section, review a paper, answer an oral examination.
Several documents, one written synthesis with citations.
Claim, evidence, reasoning, counter-argument.
A methods section annotated for weaknesses, with improvements.
One section of a research grant, against a rubric.
Major comments, minor comments, a recommendation.
An oral examination with several examiners.
Whole-quiz structures
How the questions of a quiz relate to one another. 13 templates.
Whole-quiz structures shape the quiz rather than a question: a case that unfolds, a mastery loop that repeats a concept until it is right, an exit ticket with a reflection, a diagnostic funnel, a sandwich of difficulty, a before-and-after, a spiral review, a boss question at the end.
One theme across audio, image, video and text questions.
A final, high-value question unlocked by a threshold on the warm-up set.
One scenario unfolds across the questions; each answer reveals more.
Students walk different paths through the questions, by their answers.
Every concept to 100%: a wrong answer brings a similar question until it is right.
One problem in steps: each step is a question, in a fixed order, marked by itself.
A few graded questions, then an unmarked reflection.
Broad questions to find the level, then targeted ones on the weak areas.
Easy, then hard, then easy again: the hard questions sit in the middle, in the same order for everyone.
The same questions twice with the teaching in between. The score is the gain.
This week, last month and older, in proportion. Spaced repetition.
Each question answerable at three levels for different points.
Each stage reveals more; revealing more costs points.