Kahoot Questions – Open-ended Questions in Kahoot Game 2024
Kahoot question types provide diversity to the host and the students including Quizzes, test knowledge questions, puzzles, collect opinions, etc.
Everyone knows you can ask anything from your students, team, or a set of participants with Kahoot questions. However, it is necessary to learn about all the Kahoot question types to convey your questions to the respondents adequately and collect meaningful answers.
This discussion will unfold all the question types available at Kahoot that make it easy to collect different data valuably arranged for further analysis. You can choose your desired question types from the Kahoot Creator by pressing the ‘Add Question’ button. In detail below, let’s read the complete procedure to add various question types to your quiz.
How to Add Question Types in Kahoot?
Please note that you cannot add or edit a question type if it is not included in your subscription plan. The procedure to toggle between question types is the same for the Kahoot website and app. The following is the step-by-step guide to choosing various question types available at Kahoot in your subscription plan.
Step 1: Create a Kahoot account or log in to your account if you already have one.
Step 2: Click the ‘Create’ button at the top right corner. The Kahoot Creator opens on your screen after you choose the desired theme or Question Generator.
Step 3: Press the ‘Add Question’ button on the left sidebar of the Kahoot Creator.
Step 4: All the question options appear on your screen. You can now choose among the ‘Test Knowledge’ and ‘Collect Opinions’ question types according to your requirements. Both of them and their respective question types are explained below.
Test Knowledge Questions
The following are the question types available at Kahoot used to test knowledge.
1. Quiz
Quiz means adding a multiple choice type question in your game or Kahoot. You can avail of the following options while adding a multiple-choice question.
Question Length: Your question should be up to 120 characters long.
Time Duration: You can set the time limit to attempt the quiz question between five seconds to four minutes.
Points of Quiz: You can assign zero to up to 2000 points to each multiple-choice question.
Answering Options: You can add at least two answers or up to six answering options at the maximum. Each answer option can be up to 75 characters long. You have to mark the correct answer and more than one right option if they exist. Some Kahoot subscription plans also offer image-type answer options in quizzes. You can check your plan’s specifications for more information.
Additional Features: You can add an image or video to the quiz, choose it from the gallery, upload it from your device, or embed it from YouTube or Vimeo video.
2. True or False
You can add a statement question and ask the respondents if it is ‘True’ or ‘False.’ There are the following options available while adding a True or False question to test knowledge.
Question Length: Add a True or False statement of up to 120 characters in the question bar.
Time Duration: You can set the time limit to solve the True or False statement from five seconds to up to four minutes.
Points of True or False: You can set the points gained by correctly solving the True or False question from zero to up to 2000 points according to your preference or the importance of the statement.
Answering Options: There are two options to solve the statement, ‘True’ or ‘False’ that you cannot edit. You have to choose which option is correct regarding the given statement.
Additional Features: Add a supportive or background image to the True or False question. You can find it in the Kahoot Codes & Image Library, upload it from your device, or embed it from YouTube or Vimeo video.
3. Type Answer
There is no guessing game in the ‘Type Answer’ questions to test knowledge. The respondent is asked to type the answer best explaining the question statement. This question type to test knowledge is only available with certain plans. We suggest you look at your plan details if you want to create Type Answer questions for your quiz. The following options are available while adding a Type Answer question.
Question Length: You can add a question up to 120 characters in length in the question bar.
Time Duration: You can allow the participant 20 seconds to up to four minutes to type the correct answer.
Points of Type Answer: You can award the respondents zero to up to 2000 points for typing the correct answer.
Answer Length: The respondent can type the answer up to 20 characters and cannot include the following mentioned signs: ~ ` ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) { } [ ] ; : ” ‘ < , . > ? / \ | – _ + =
Additional Features: All the answers are displayed on the result screen with a work or home account. On the other hand, only the correct answers are displayed on the screen with the school or higher education account. The teacher accounts with EDU subscriptions can also access the wrong answers. These teachers can also accept the correct answers after the players respond to award points. The host can also add images or videos from the gallery, by uploading from the device, or embedding from YouTube or Vimeo video.
4. Slider
A slider is given to answer the questions about numbers, values, and years. The respondents move the slider to adjust it to the correct value. Participants can use the left/right and up/down keyboard keys to move the slider. The Slider questions are available only with specific plans. We suggest you review your plan specifications if you want to add Slider questions to your quiz. The following options are available with these questions.
Question Length: You can add the question statement up to 120 characters long. You can also add text to be read aloud up to 120 characters in length that is separate from the question text.
Answer Length: You can add answers up to ten characters long.
Time Duration: You can allow the participants to answer the Slider questions in ten seconds to up to four minutes.
Points of Type Answer: You can award zero, 1000, or 2000 points for answering the question to the respondent. Out of the total points, 20 percent points will be for the speedy answer, and the remaining 80 percent points will be for the precision of the answer.
Margin of Error: It is up to you to accept the margin of error. You can set it to none, low, medium, or high. The answers that lie in your defined margin of error will be awarded points.
Additional Features: The slider scale is auto-adjusted based on the number of input values. The value in points is also auto-adjusted for all the input values according to the predefined margin of error. You can add an image to the question by uploading it from your device, choosing one from the image gallery, or embedding it from YouTube or Vimeo video.
5. Puzzle
This is one of the most interesting knowledge-testing question types. The answer is within the question in the form of a Puzzle. The respondent has to guess the correct answer and arrange the given options. This question type is also available only with certain plans. We suggest you review your plan if this question type seems interesting. The following are the options available in Puzzle-type questions to test knowledge.
Question Length: The question can be an image or text up to 120 characters. On the other hand, you can also add the text to be read aloud up to 120 characters long, which will be separate from the question text.
Time Duration: You can allow the participant to solve the Puzzle question in 20 seconds to up to four minutes.
Points of Puzzle: You can award the participants zero to up to 2000 points for the Puzzle questions based on the question’s importance.
Answer Length: You can add three or four answer options up to 75 characters each.
Additional Features: You can upload a supporting image from the Kahoot image library, embed a video from YouTube or Vimeo video, or upload one from your device. You can add sequences in answer options, and sequences with the same values will be accepted as the correct answer.
6. Quiz + Audio
Kahoot uses Microsoft Azure’s text-to-speech with up to 37 languages for Quiz + Audio questions. The question is read to the respondent as audio, and then the answer options are available to choose from. This question type is also subject to the subscription plan. Therefore, we suggest you review your plan features if you want to add this question type to your quiz. The following are the available features with ‘Quiz + Audio’ questions to test knowledge.
Question Length: Add a question statement in the question box of up to 120 characters.
Question Language: You can add questions that will be read to the respondents in Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, and Vietnamese.Additional Features: The audio can also be retained for other question types. However, you cannot add any image or video to the question when an audio is present.
Collect Opinions
The following are the question types available at Kahoot to collect opinions.
1. Poll
There is nothing right or wrong when you ask a question to know the participants’ opinions. You can ask a question and add answer options to learn the popularity of an answering option in the audience in Poll questions. You can add poll questions in certain subscription plans. It is better to review your plan if you plan to add a Poll to your quiz. The following features are available with Polls.
Question Length: You can add a question statement up to 120 characters long.
Time Duration: You can allow the participants to choose their opinion in the poll in five seconds to up to four minutes.
Points of Poll: There are no points to answer poll questions.
Answer Length: You can also add image answer options. However, the text answers can be up to 75 characters long. You can also allow the participants to choose more than one answer option upon your preference.
Additional Features: You can add an image to the question by uploading it from your device, choosing one from the gallery, or embedding it from YouTube or Vimeo video.
2. Scale
You can ask your respondents about their opinions, attitudes, preferences, and views with the Scale questions to analyze and compare the data. The participants respond by choosing a number on the scale that best explains their interest regarding the asked question. Scale questions are available in certain plans. Therefore, we suggest to check a plan’s specifications if you want to add such questions to your game. The following features are available in the Scale.
Scale Type: You can select the Likert scale which gives a 1-5 score to explain the best answer, or create any Custom scale.
Label Type: Certain labels are available that best serve your question’s response, i.e., Agree/Disagree, Satisfied/Dissatisfied, etc. Alternatively, you can also add a custom label.
Additional Features: You can add an image to the scale question by uploading it from your device, choosing an image from the gallery, or embedding one from YouTube or Vimeo video.
3. Drop Pin
There is an image regarding the asked question. The respondents are required to Drop Pins on their desired areas on the image that best explains their response. The player drags the image on their device to place the Pin on the desired spot. Drop Pin questions are only available in certain plans. Therefore, we suggest you review your plan features if you want to add Drop Pin questions to the game.
Question Length: You can add questions up to 120 characters in the question box.
Time Duration: You can allow the participants to answer Drop Pin questions in 20 seconds to up to four minutes.
Points of Drop Pins: There are no points to answer the Drop Pins questions.
Additional Features: You can upload the image from your device or choose it from the image gallery. However, you cannot add videos. All the dropped pins will be visible to the host’s screen after the participants have submitted their responses.
4. Word Cloud
A question is asked, and the respondents can type their short responses that appear on the screen as Word Clouds. The popular answers among the participants will be displayed in comparatively large clouds. This question type is also available in limited plans. Therefore, we suggest you review your plan policy if you want to add Word Cloud questions to the game. The following features are available with Word Cloud questions.
Question Length: You can add a question up to 120 characters in the question box.
Answer Length: Participants can type answers of up to 20 characters in length.
Points of Word Cloud: There are no points to answer Word Cloud questions.
Time Duration: You can allow 20 seconds to up to four minutes for participants to answer the Word Cloud questions.
Additional Features: You can add an image from the gallery to the Word Cloud questions, upload it from your device, or embed it from YouTube or Vimeo video.
5. Open Ended
You can ask for opinions, feedback, or ideas from the participants with open-ended questions. All the answers will be displayed on a scrollable wall after all the participants submit their responses. This question type is limited to certain subscription plans. Therefore, it is necessary to review subscription plan features if you want to add open-ended questions to the quiz. The following features are available with open-ended questions.
Question Length: You can add a question statement of up to 120 characters long.
Time Duration: You can allow the participants to answer the open-ended questions in 2o seconds or up to four minutes.
Answer Length: You can allow the participants to answer the open-ended questions in up to 250 characters and highlight a desired word.
Additional Features: You can add an image to the open-ended question from the image gallery, upload it from your device, or embed it from YouTube or Vimeo video.
6. Brainstorm
You can ask for votes and ideas or collect opinions from your teammates during meetings or afterward with Brainstorm questions. These questions are available only in certain plans. Therefore, we recommend reviewing your plan features if you want to add brainstorming questions to your game. The following features are available with the Brainstorm questions.
Time Duration: You can allow the participants to brainstorm their answers in 30 seconds to up to four minutes.
Answer Length: You can allow the participants to submit up to five responses or ideas, each up to 75 characters.
Additional Features: The submitted responses or ideas will be auto-grouped with AI. The host can ungroup and regroup the responses if the ideas are incorrectly grouped.
Vote Duration: You can allow the participants up to 180 seconds to vote for their favorite ideas, depending upon the number of presented ideas.
Voting Limit: The participants can vote for multiple ideas, and there is no limit to the number of votes per participant.
Points of Vote: The top three ideas will earn points with 1000 points per vote. However, there will be no points if you vote for your ideas.
Additional Features: There will be no points, votes, or grouping if the brainstorming is done during the assignments.
Conclusion
You have now read about all the question types available at Kahoot. Certain question types are only available with specific plans. It is better to review your plan features before subscribing so that you get all the question types unlocked while creating a quiz. We will be glad to assist you if you ask us any queries in the comments below.
FAQ’s
How many types of questions are there in Kahoot?
Kahoot has two major types of questions; test knowledge and collect opinions. There are further many questions in each question type.
Are all Kahoot questions multiple-choice?
You can also ask True/False, open-ended, scale, drop pins, and type answer questions in Kahoot, besides multiple choice questions.
Can you type answers in Kahoot?
You can type answers in Kahoot in open-ended, word cloud, brainstorm, and type answer questions within the prescribed character limit.
