Short answer/essay: Standard question type

Use the Short Answer/Essay question type to ask questions that require students to provide a written response. Students can also insert images, links, and other supporting materials in their responses.

Question setup

From Compose question, enter your question or writing prompt.
- Use the Rich Text Editor to format text or insert images and tables.
- Hover over icons to display tooltips.
- Copy and paste images into this area from a browser only. To insert an image directly from your device, select Image from the Rich Text Editor.
From Text formatting options for students, select the options to give to students. By default, students can include bolded, italicized, underlined, bulleted, or numbered text in their responses.
Select a highlighted rich text option to remove it for students.
From Word limit, enter a word limit for student responses and determine whether to allow submissions over the word limit or not.
Enter Placeholder text for students to display to students in the answer box, such as Type your answer here.

If you are creating a Short Answer/Essay question in AMP, you can enter Scoring Instructions. As an instructor, you can access this field while scoring a student’s submission.

Add learning objectives

Click + Learning Objectives to display the Learning Objectives browser.
Select a Parent Objective to find and select specific objectives.
Click Align to add the objectives.

Align a rubric

Click Align Rubric to create a new rubric or select one from your Resources.
After a rubric has been aligned, select the rubric icon (four squares) to preview the rubric or click X to remove the rubric from the question.
Select Show to students to display the rubric to students when they are taking the test.

Preview and edit the question

Click Preview Question to review how the question will display to students.
Click Edit Question to return to the question editor. Alternatively, click X to close the question.