Quiz mode turns a poll into a question with a right answer. One option is marked correct, an answer cannot be changed once given, and the moment somebody chooses you can show them a short explanation of why.
That explanation field is the whole feature. Without it a quiz is a small game; with it, it is the only teaching tool in the app.
What you will be able to do
- check_circle Post a question with one correct answer in any group or channel.
- check_circle Attach an explanation that appears the instant somebody answers.
- check_circle Decide whether answers should be visible or private, before it is too late to change.
- check_circle Build a longer test with the official quiz bot when one question is not enough.
Quiz mode is a switch on the ordinary poll composer — there is no separate quiz screen to find.
quiz One answer, and no second chance
A quiz is a poll with two differences. Exactly one option is marked correct when you create it, and a participant's answer is final — there is no changing a vote once it is cast.
Answering shows immediately whether it was right, marks the correct option, and reveals whatever explanation you wrote. That sequence is why quizzes work as teaching: the person is told the answer at the exact moment they are most interested in it.
The finality has a cost on your side. A question with two defensible answers, or an option with a typo that changes its meaning, cannot be repaired after people have started answering. Write the question, then write the wrong answers, then check the right one is unambiguously the only one.
Where a quiz is the right shape
Four uses. Two are what it was built for, one is a trap, and the fourth needs the bot rather than a chat message.
school Making a point stick
group Trivia in a group
visibility Checking whether people read something
smart_toy A real test with several questions
The two decisions that cannot be undone: which answer is correct, and whether the votes are visible.
settings Making one
- Open the poll composer The paperclip in a group or channel, then Poll.
- Write the question and the options Up to ten. Make the wrong ones believable.
- Turn on Quiz Mode Then mark the correct option. The switch also disables multiple answers, because a quiz has one.
- Write the explanation The field below. This is the part that does the work.
- Decide about anonymity now It cannot be changed later.
- Pin it in a busy group A quiz that scrolls past unanswered teaches nobody.
This page is the simplest interactive thing you can post. The curriculum step covers the rest: buttons under a message, what they can trigger, and how an interactive post is built when a poll is not the right shape.
At a glance
- 1Quiz mode
Make a poll with one correct answer in a group or channel.
- 2Explanation
Add an explanation that shows the moment someone answers.
- 3Decide early
Anonymity and the correct answer cannot be changed after sending.
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