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Adding, Editing, & Removing Multiple Choice Answers

Learn how to add, edit, and remove multiple-choice answers for trivia and poll questions.

Written by Ross Newton

For polls and trivia games, the most common question type is Multiple-Choice. Multiple-Choice questions allow your audience to choose one answer from several answer options you have added to your question.

By default, any new question's type is Multiple-Choice when added, but you can always set an existing Question Type to Multiple-Choice. When adding a blank question or setting a question to Multiple-Choice, four default Multiple-Choice answer options will be added. You can then edit the blank answers to the answer options you want for your question.

Editing Multiple Choice Answers

To edit a Multiple-Choice answer, simply click on the Edit (pencil) button on the lower right side of the answer box. A pop-up will display that allows you to edit the answer's text and/or set the answer color. Changing an answer's color will change it throughout Crowdpurr, including the Presentation View and Participant View. After editing an answer's text, press the green Save (checkmark) button next to the text input.

Editing a multiple-choice answer option
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How many answer options can I include in one question? You can have up to 100 answer options per Multiple-Choice question.

Changing Answer Option Colors

To edit an answer's color, click the Edit button on the lower right side of the answer box and then click the color you want to set it to under the Change Answer Color section.

For Conference Plan users and higher, you can set your own custom answer color by either typing in a specific hex color code or clicking on the color wheel. You can even adjust the color transparency for your chosen answer color by adjusting the opacity levels located to the right of the color box as displayed below.
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Setting a custom answer color and transparency level is available on the Conference Plan and higher.

Adding Multiple Choice Answers

To add a new answer, click the gray Add Answer box at the bottom of the existing answers list.

 Added answers will use the next color on the list and always start with the default text, "Answer Option"

Added answers will use the next color on the list and always start with the default text, "Answer Option"

Using AI to Add Multiple Choice Answers

If you're on the Classroom Plan and higher, there are several AI Actions you can use on your existing question.

To access this box, click on the AI Actions button with yellow star icons located to the right of the Multiple-Choice Answers header. This will bring down the available AI Actions for your question.

AI Actions for Multiple-Choice Answers

AI Actions for Multiple-Choice Answers

Write Answers with AI

The Write Answers with AI tool is useful when you don't want to manually fill in the multiple-choice answer options including the correct answer and alternative incorrect options. Using this tool will generate the correct answer, along with incorrect but believable answer options.

To use this feature, first complete your question before clicking the Write Answers with AI option.

Examples of the AI-generated correct answer and incorrect alternative options after using the Write Answers with AI tool
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Write Incorrect Answers with AI

The Write Incorrect Answers with AI tool is useful when you've already completed the question text and have specified the correct answer, but only need to generate incorrect alternatives.

Generating believable, but incorrect answer options. When generating with Write Incorrect Answers with AI, the AI tool will use your one added correct answer to generate better incorrect answer options. The generated answers will be similar, believable, but incorrect. The perfect recipe for a great trivia question!

To use this feature, first complete your question and fill in one correct answer before clicking the Write Incorrect Answers with AI option.

Examples of the AI-generated incorrect alternative options after using the Write Incorrect Answers with AI tool

Examples of the AI-generated incorrect alternative options after using the Write Incorrect Answers with AI tool

What if I've added Answer Images to the answer options already? If you've added images to answer options, these answers will not be changed when using either AI Action.

Viewing Multiple Choice Answer Options on the Presentation View

By design, the Presentation View will display 5 answer options for the Active Question before rotating to display the next set of answer options.

If a question has more than five answer options, then the first five will be shown before displaying the next group of answer options in sets of five, as displayed below:

The Presentation View automatically cycles to show the next set of five answer options.

The Presentation View automatically cycles to show the next set of five answer options.

Removing Multiple Choice Answers

Default "Answer Option" text is selected

The default "Answer Option" text is selected.

You can remove any existing answers; however, you must always have at least one answer option. To remove an answer, click the Edit button with a pencil icon on the lower right side of the answer box and click the red Remove Answer button.

Remove Answer? confirmation module

Remove Answer? confirmation module

A red Remove Answer box will appear to confirm the answer option removal. Please note, this action cannot be undone.

Add Answer Images

You can also add images to your answer options. For instance, you can add Animated GIFs from Giphy and Stock Images from Pixabay. If you're on the Classroom Plan or higher, you can even upload your images to answer options.

To add an image to a Multiple-Choice answer option, find the camera button located to the right of the individual answer options. Upon clicking on the camera button, you'll be prompted to select the type of Answer Image you'd like to add to the answer option.

Upload Answer Image icon is circled

Upload Answer Image icon

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