Multiple Choice

Features:

    • Create a question with multiple correct answers

    • Add any number of incorrect answers to a question

    • Set any choice to always appear at the bottom of the answer list (such as "None of the above")

    • Allow students to select a single answer (radio buttons) or multiple answers (check boxes) at a time

    • Provides a way for professors to give students a detailed solution or method to solve the problem.

In this section, we will walk you through the steps of making a Multiple Choice Problem. Below is an example of what the Multiple Choice Problem we will create looks like in WeBWorK, in the student view. You can also view the video tutorial on this.

1. Enter what you would like to name the file of the problem you will create in the text box under "Problem Name:"

For our example, we will go with “Multiple Choice Problem."

Do not include the quotation marks in the WbWrkGUI if you are following along the example.

2. Click the “Select Destination” button to open another window that contains the documents on your computer (See below).

Save your file in a location where you can easily access it.

We recommend saving to the Desktop.

You can also type in your file destination but we recommend using the “Select Destination” option.

3. Type in what you want your question to be in the yellow textbox with the “Enter the Problem Text” prompt.

For the example problem, “What is the derivative of x^2?” (See below)

4. Enter an answer in the text box containing “<Enter a choice>”

a. If the answer or choice is correct, click “Add As Correct Choice”

Following the example problem, type in “2x” as a choice and click “Add As Correct Choice”

b. If the answer is wrong, click “Add As Incorrect Choice” which is the red button to the right of "Add As Correct Choice"

For the example, type “2x^2” and click “Add As Incorrect Choice” and then type “(1/3)x^3” and click “Add As Incorrect Choice”

If you click on the down arrow and click on the Choices you entered, you can see that the wrong answers are highlighted in red when clicked, while the correct answer is highlighted in green.

c. The “Mark as Bottom Choice” option is for the “None of the above” answer option. The way the code for this GUI is written makes it so that the answer choices are displayed in a random order to students. This option makes it so “None of the above” can be forced to be under all of the other answer choices.

You can get rid of a choice by selecting it and clicking the blue “Remove Choice” button under the down arrow.

1. We will delete “2x”

2. We will also go back to add “None of the above” and click “Add As Correct Choice”

3. Select “None of the above” if it isn’t already selected and then click the “Mark as Bottom Choice” button (see the first figure below). You can see that the under the “Current Bottom Choice” label is “None of the above" (see the second figure below). The “Mark as Bottom Choice” feature makes sure that when you randomize the display of the choices for answers that “None of the above” or “All of the above” (depending on your question and answer choices) will be at the bottom of the possible selections.

5. In the Options group box, you can allow students to select multiple answers

“Allow students to select multiple answers” is like what it sounds like. You can make problems where there is more than one answer and the student would have to select all of the correct answers.

The optional Detailed Solutions section allows you to show students what steps to take to solve the problem. Students will be able to see the detailed solution after the homework set is closed (after the due date of the homework). See the screenshots below to see how to input the detailed solution to our example and what the student will see in WeBWorK if they select the "Show Solutions" checkbox.

6. When you are satisfied with the problem you wrote, click the “Create” button at the bottom right of the application. You should see text next to the “Create” button saying that the file was successfully created (See the filled out example below). If you go to the area you selected for the file destination, you should see a file with the name you chose with a “.pg” extension.