Feedback timing

Feedback is the explanation the learner reads alongside their result. When they see it depends on the question’s Feedback mode.

There are two modes.

Immediate

The learner sees the per-choice feedback as soon as they click a choice. No need to press Submit first.

Use Immediate when you want the page to feel like a tutorial. The learner explores choices, reads the explanation for each, and either backs out and picks differently or sticks with their answer.

Immediate feedback works best when:

• You’ve written feedback for every choice, not just the wrong ones.
• The question is part of a learning sequence rather than an assessment.
• You want to encourage the learner to read the explanations, not race to a score.

On submit

The learner picks an answer, presses Submit, and then sees feedback. Until they submit, the question gives no signal.

This is the default. Use On submit when the question is being used to check understanding rather than to teach it. The learner has to commit to an answer before they see the explanation.

On submit works best when:

• The question is one of several on a page and you want all of them graded together.
• You’re scoring the page summatively.
• You want feedback to land as a single event, not a running commentary.

How to set it

The setting is in the quick menu above the block. The current value is shown next to Feedback — click it to toggle between Immediate and On submit.

You can also set it in the settings sheet under Presentation, with the same two options.

Each question on a page can use a different mode. A page can have immediate-feedback warm-up questions followed by on-submit check questions at the end.

Writing the feedback itself

The mode decides when feedback shows. The feedback itself is what you type into:

• The per-choice feedback popover that opens from each choice
• The summary feedback field at the bottom of the question

Per-choice feedback shows next to the choice the learner picked. Summary feedback shows once after submit and applies regardless of which choice they picked. You can write either, both, or neither.

Empty feedback fields don’t render anything to the learner. If you haven’t written feedback for a particular wrong answer, the learner just sees that they got it wrong.

What’s next

• Partial credit explains how questions with multiple answers (multi-select, sequencing, matching, categorise, fill-in-the-blanks, hotspot) score in between right and wrong.