The questionnaire is one of the most crucial parts of your content, as it's the first thing users read when they visit it. Therefore, it's important to focus on the type and content of the questionnaire that suit your audience. This document aims to help you understand the various types of questions available in Outgrow for you to choose from.

1. Multiple Choice: Single Select: Single-choice questions are widely used in quizzes, surveys, and calculators. These questions require users to select one option out of several given options. To add a multiple-choice question, choose the question type 'Single Select.' Then, you can configure the options for the users to choose from. Additionally, you can add icons to the options from the icon library.

2. Multiple Choice: Multi-select: In certain real-life scenarios, users may feel the need to select more than one answer for a given question. To solve this issue, we have introduced the multi-select question type. This allows end-users to choose multiple options instead of just one.

3. Numeric Slider: There can be some questions where the options are best laid out in a slider format. Choose a numeric slider as the question type for such questions. Start by adding a question title. Then, add a prefix or suffix as a unit of the variable (can be $, %, Kilograms, etc). You can provide a minimum and maximum value for the slider to set the lower and upper limits. You can change the step length, which is the lowest denominator of the slider, and show a scale by simply toggling the 'show scale' button. Finally, you can add a default value, which is the value that the slider will come pre-defined with.

4. Text input: To prompt the user to enter text, select "Text Input" from the dropdown menu. Depending on your needs, you can choose one of the following validation types:

A. If you choose "Numeric" validation, specify the minimum and maximum values that can be accepted.

B. If you choose "Alphanumeric" validation, specify the minimum number of characters required.

C. You can also have users enter their email or location address using "Places" (powered by Google).

5. Drop Down: If you want your user to select a specific value from a drop-down menu, then this is the question type you should choose.

6. Text Area: Similar to the text input type, this is used when you want to show a box in which a user can add his/her inputs. You can define the minimum and maximum number of characters as well.

7. Opinion Scale: This question format is utilized when you wish to gather a user's perspective on a particular matter. You can provide a stepped scale to the user, allowing them to express their opinion by selecting their preferred score. Additionally, you can specify labels for both the lowest and highest score to provide context.

8. Date/Time Picker: This type of question is useful when you need the user to select a date and time for scheduling purposes. An excellent example of this would be when you offer your potential customers the option to choose a date and time for a demo. Additionally, you can select the specific days of the week on which the time slots will be made available.

Note: You can also disable the option where the user can choose a time.

9. File Upload: With our system, you can allow your end-users to share data by uploading it as a part of their response submission. You have the flexibility to choose the type of data that you want the user to upload to the system.

Please note that we support various file types including Image, PDF, Document, Excel, Video, Vector Graphics, and Audio-based formats.

10. Rating: Just like the Opinion Scale question type, using this you can have a user share their rating for a certain aspect while submitting their response. You can increase the number of stars available for a user to choose from using the stars slider.

11. Ranking Grid: Using Ranking Grid you can have users rank the options for submitting their response in the form of a grid. You can increase the number of columns and rows for the users to choose from.

In this, Outgrow only processes the data if the user has ranked all options. If the question is half attempted, no data will be recorded.

Important Note: Here are a few important things that you should remember:

A. The Ranking Grid question type now allows you to choose Drop-Down as a sub-type. You can set placeholder text for the drop-down field, and upload a CSV file with the available values for selection in your content.

B. You can now Add or Remove the Continue button for each question. This can be done by going to the Advanced sub-tab for each question and enabling/disabling the Enable Continue Button setting toggle.

C. This functionality is not available for Chatbot and Giveaway content type, and is also not available for Paragraph style layout.

12. Numerical Range Slider: Using this question type, you can specify a minimum and a maximum value for a particular question.

Want to add clarity to your interactive content's questions? Outgrow now lets you include optional description text! This text provides users with additional instructions or details for each question. You can choose to display this text in two ways:

A. Under Question Title: Position the description text directly beneath the question title for clear visibility.

​B. Tooltip: Enable a hover-activated tooltip that displays the description text when a user hovers over the question.

Note: The recommended character limit for description text is 150 characters. Another thing that we would like to highlight here is that design styling won't apply in tooltips. For accurate output, utilize the preview feature or view the live content URL.

A. To reorder questions, you can simply drag and drop the questions in the builder.

B. Hover over options on a question to find actions that can be performed for that question. Click on the delete option, which appears in the list of actions.

Important Note: Different content pieces on Outgrow have different utilities and features, it is important to understand how the questionnaire is different in each type of content offered in Outgrow:

A. Content types like the Calculator, the outcome quiz, the Ecommerce quiz, and the Poll consist of all 11 types of questions.

B. The survey has all types except the ranking grid (11th on the list above).

C. The chatbot includes only 5 types of questions: text input, single-select, multi-select, rating, and date time picker.

D. And Assessment comprises only 2 types single-select and multi-select.

The team has created this with a lot of thought process and consideration regarding each content piece as well as question type, however, feel free to reach us at Questions@Outgrow.Co with any suggestions or queries and we will be happy to help you out.