What are required questions?
Teachers have the ability to define which questions on a formative must be answered for students to be able to submit their work, by setting required questions. Required questions are also a way to prevent students from navigating to the next section of a formative (if sections were added to it) before completing all questions displayed.
There is no limit to the amount of required questions teachers can add to a formative.
Note: Once you designate a question as "Required", subsequent questions will default to required as well, however you will have the option to toggle it off.
Set a required question:
Click the blue + sign and choose the question type
Proceed to create the question
Toggle on the "Required" button below the question
Student View
Once a question has been set as a required question, students will not be able to submit their formative without providing a response.
If there are sections on the formative, students will not be able to navigate forward to the next section until the required question(s) in the section has been answered.
From the student's view, there will be 3 indicators that required questions are included in the formative:
The question will have a "Required" label
If the student clicks the 'Submit' button without answering a required question, a warning will appear at the bottom of their screen "Please answer the required question(s)." Once this message appears the Submit button is grayed out and remains non-functional until all required questions are answered
If the formative contains sections, the student will not be able to proceed from the current section they're on unless answering all the required questions within it. Clicking 'Next' will prompt the warning "Please answer all required questions" (with an indication of how many there are within the section)." Once this message appears the 'Next' button is grayed out and remains non-functional until all required questions are answered
