Multiple Choice slides are one of our most commonly used slide types. Multiple Choice is suitable when you already know what options you want the participants to vote on, i.e. you want your audience to choose only from a few pre-defined options.
Please Note: Multiple Choice questions are not included in our Quiz Competition slides. To use a Quiz Competition slides (which collect points and determine a winner), make sure to use either our Select Answer or Type Answer question types. Learn more about the difference between Multiple Choice and Quiz Competition slides.
How to create a Multiple Choice question
Create a new slide by clicking the + New slide button in the top left corner of the presentation's Edit view
Choose the Multiple Choice slide type
Enter in your question by clicking on the heading area directly on the slide canvas:
4. Enter your answer options by clicking on the slide and writing the answer option in the panel to the right:
And that’s it for the basic steps! Now, let's look at some optional functionalities you can add.
Additional functionalities
Change the results layout
By default, the results of your Multiple Choice questions will be displayed as a bar chart. To change the visualization of your slide, you can click on the body of the slide and choose to show your results as a Pie Chart, Donut Chart, and Dots under the Edit tab on the right, under the heading Visualization Type.
Add images to your Multiple Choice options
If you want to add images to your Multiple Choice options, simply click on the body of the slide and the image icon next to the options under the Edit tab. You can upload your own images or select images from the Unsplash and Giphy libraries.
Please Note: It is only possible to upload images in square format (1:1 ratio) for the Multiple Choice options.
Select a correct answer
If your Multiple Choice options have right and wrong answers, you click the body of the slide and toggle Choose correct answers under the Options section in the Edit tab:
A checkbox will now be added to each option that you can check to mark the correct option(s).
When presenting, you can show which options you have marked as correct by pressing the “Enter” key on your keyboard.
Please Note: The Multiple Choice question type will not collect scores and determine a winner. If you want to create a Quiz where scores are kept for each player and leaderboards are created, take a look at our Quiz competition question type instead.
Allow the audience to vote on more than one option
If you want the audience to be able to vote on multiple options (commonly known as checkboxes in surveys), click on the body of the slide to bring up the Edit tab and toggle “Select multiple options”:
You can then decide the maximum number of options your participants can select. This can be used, for example, if you would like your audience to select "all that apply". In this case, you would both enable "Select multiple options" and mark more than one correct answer.
Note: When this feature is enabled, the percentage number you see is the percentage of participants that selected each option, not a percentage of the total score.
Show the results in percentage
By default, the results will be displayed in absolute numbers. If you want to display the results in percentage, click on the body of the slide to bring up the Edit tab and toggle “Show results in percentage”.
You can also switch between showing percentages and numbers while presenting by clicking on the "Show percent" button in the presentation menu. This will show up in the left-hand tool bar while presenting, marked as a percentage symbol:
Change font size
The font size of the options will automatically change depending on the length of your text, or the number of answer options.
To make your font size larger, you can reduce the number of answer options or reduce the length of text in the answer options.
Segmentation
If you have several Multiple Choice questions in your presentation, you can segment the responses according to the results from another question.