Do you want to make your quizzes more engaging and interactive for your audience? Adding video questions to a quiz allows you to present information in a dynamic way, making the quiz experience more interesting and helping users better understand the material.
With Thrive Quiz Builder, you can add video questions to your quiz, not just standard text questions. This makes your quiz more interactive, as users can watch a video instead of just reading a question.
To add a video question, start by creating a new quiz or editing an existing one in your Quiz Builder Dashboard. For more detailed steps on creating a quiz, check out this article.
- Setting Up an Answer to the Video Question
- Adding a Question to a Quiz
- Converting a Question into a Video
- Managing Video Question Settings
Adding a Question to a Quiz
To add a question to a quiz, first open the quiz in the Thrive Quiz Builder. To do so, first open your WordPress admin area, navigate to Thrive Dashboard >> Thrive Quiz Builder, and click on the Edit button on the Quiz you want to add the question to.
On the individual quiz page, scroll down to Quiz Structure and inside the Questions block, click the Manage button.
When you click to manage questions you’ll be taken to an interface where you can build the quiz flow with questions in a quiz.
If you’ve not created a question already, on the Manage Questions page, click the Add Question button.
Once you click to add a question, you’ll see a popup to select the question type and click the Continue button.
When you click Continue, the next popup is where you can add more question details and set attributes for it. On this popup, click on the down arrow beside the type of question.
In the dropdown that appears, select Video Question.
After you select the question type as Video, proceed to manage the other settings on the popup.
Converting a Question into a Video
If you’ve already added a question, hover over that block and click the pen icon.
After clicking to edit the question type, you’ll see a popup where you click on the question type to open the types of question you can add.
Clicking to select the question type, you’ll see the available types in a dropdown. Here, select the Video question.
After selecting the question type as Video, there are some related fields that you’ll have to fill. We’ll see that in the sections below.
Managing Video Question Settings
When you select to add a Video Question to the quiz, you’ll be able to manage the following.
- Selecting a Video Source
- Selecting a Video Style
- Setting Display Options
- Adding a Video Thumbnail
- Adding the Question Text and Description
Selecting a Video Source
The first step after enabling a Video question is to select the source of the video. This section lets you select a source of the video and enter its URL.
To add a video question you can select one of the following sources.
- YouTube
- Vimeo
- Wistia
- Bunny.net Stream
- Custom
After you select the video source, enter the video URL in the next field. Entering the URL will load the source video thumbnail in the block beside this setting.
Selecting a Video Style
After you select the video source and enter the URL, the next step is to select the Video style. By default, there is no style added to your video. If you want to add a style to it, click on the down arrow from the “Video Style” section. This will open a drop-down with the styles that you can choose from.
In the video style dropdown, scroll down to see all of the available styles. If you have found the style that you would like to use, simply click on it and it will be applied to your video.
Whenever you want to change the style of the video, you can simply open the “Video Style” drop-down again and select the different styles that you want to use.
Setting Display Options
Once you add your video’s URL, you’ll see “Display Options” appear. Click the down arrow next to “Display Options” in the “Advanced” section to open them.
A list will drop down, showing you different display settings you can use for your YouTube video.
To turn on any option, just check the box next to it. Here’s a list of options you’ll see when you select the video source as YouTube.
- Autoplay: The video will play automatically when someone visits the page.
- Hide logo: Hides the YouTube logo on the video.
- Optimize related: Shows related YouTube videos at the end of your video.
- Hide controls: Removes the play, pause, and other controls from the video.
- Hide full screen: Removes the full screen button, so people can’t make the video larger.
When you select the Video source as Vimeo or Wistia, you’ll see the following options.
- Autoplay: When you turn this on, the video will start playing by itself as soon as someone gets to the “Video Question” in your quiz. They won’t have to click play.
- Disable playbar: If you select this, the playbar (the bar with the pause, play, and progress controls) will not show up on the video. People won’t be able to skip forward or rewind.
- Hide full screen button: Use this option if you do not want people to see or use the full screen button. The video will only play in its set size on your page.
When you upload a custom video, you’ll see the following options.
- Autoplay: When you turn this option on, the video will start playing by itself as soon as it appears in the quiz. No need for the user to press Play.
- Hide Controls: If you check this, all the video controls (like play, pause, and volume) will not appear. Users won’t be able to control the video.
- Loop: If you enable this, the video will keep playing again and again, starting over each time it finishes, until someone stops it.
Adding a Video Thumbnail
To add a thumbnail for your “Video Question,” click on the “Add Video Thumbnail” section in the pop-up.
This will open the Media Gallery, where you can pick an image to show as the video’s thumbnail. If your image is already in the gallery, simply click on it, then click the “Select” button.
If your image isn’t uploaded yet, go to the “Upload Files” tab, upload your image, and then click on it and hit “Select.” The chosen image will now be set as your video’s thumbnail.
Adding Text and Description
You also need to write a question and a description for the “Video Question.”
Just type your question in the “Question text” box, and add your description in the “Add Description” box. This is what people will see when they answer the question.
Setting Up an Answer to the Video Question
After you have finished setting up the “Video Question”, all you have left to do is to define one or more answers for it, depending on what quiz type you are building.
Answer field – for the ‘Survey’ quiz
If you are planning to create this type of quiz, then an open ended question is the best solution – as it offers the visits the possibility to input their own answer.
Therefore, the options available for the answers when you are building this type of quiz are the following:
Category – for ‘Category’ quiz
In the case of a “Category” quiz, you also have to assign the answer to a specific category using the “Category” section next to the “Answer” field. Just click on the down arrow and then, select a category from the drop-down that opens:
Points – for ‘Numeric’ and ‘Percentage’ quizzes
In the case of “Numeric” and “Percentage” quizzes you have to define how many points should the answer be worth, by entering a value in the “Points” field, next to the “Answer” field:
Right or wrong answer – for ‘Right/Wrong’ quiz
In the case of the “Right/Wrong” quiz type, instead of points, you have to choose whether or not the answer you have just added is the correct one. If it is, leave the checkbox next to the “Correct answer” option (which is next to the answer you have just entered) selected:
If the answer you have entered is the wrong one, un-check the checkbox.
Weight, Tags & Feedback
Furthermore, if you wish, you can also assign a weight, as well as attach tags and set up feedback to the answers. Not all of these options are available for all quiz types.
However, you can find below several details about what each of these options does in order to know how to use them if they are available for your chosen quiz type.
Weight
After this option is activated, you will see the “Weight” section appear next to the “Answer” field:
In the “Weight” section you can enter a number, in accordance with how important this specific answer is for the “Video Question”.
Tags
After the “Tags” option is activated, you will see the “Tags” section appear under the “Answer” field:
I this section, you can enter tags separated by commas, which will be attached to that specific answer. These tags can be sent to your mailing list if your API connection supports tagging. This way you will be able to categorize users more easily, based on the received answers from them.
Feedback
This option allows you to display some feedback with each answer that you set up for the “Audio Question”. All you have to do is to complete the field from the “Feedback” section with the feedback that you want for the respective answer:
This way, if someone will choose the respective answer, the related feedback will also be displayed for them.
In order to add more answers for this “Video Question”, click on the “New Answer” option and repeat the above-mentioned steps to add the new answer:
Once you are done setting up the “Video Question” and the answers for it as well, you can click on the “Save” button from the pop-up and the question will be added to your quiz:
In order to add more questions to the quiz, simply repeat the steps described in this article. After you add more questions, you can drag and connect the questions to each other to create the flow of your quiz in the questions editor.
After you have added every question you want to your quiz, click on the “Save & Exit” button, from the bottom right corner of the questions editor:
Then, continue setting up your quiz, just as described in this article.
If you want to find out more about Thrive Quiz Builder options and features, check out our knowledge base section here.