What quiz mode actually does
A quiz on tuyaform is an ordinary online form with scoring switched on. You build questions the same way you build any form, then flip one setting — quiz mode — and two things change: single-answer questions gain a correct answer and a point value, and every respondent sees their score the moment they finish. The scoring runs on the server when the response is submitted and is stored with it, so your analytics fill up with scores automatically.
The same mechanics cover far more than trivia. A training check at the end of onboarding, a product-knowledge assessment for a sales team, a screening questionnaire where certain answers earn points, a classroom pop quiz, a certification practice test — anything where answers are right or wrong, or worth more or less, is a scored form. In this guide, "quiz" means all of it.
Three question types can be scored: Multiple choice, Dropdown, and Yes/No — the single-answer types, where a response either matches the correct answer or doesn't. Everything else on the form still works normally; it just isn't graded. That's a feature, not a limitation: a good quiz usually mixes scored questions with unscored ones — a name and email to know who's answering, or a long-text "explain your reasoning" box that a human reads later.
Step 1: Create the form and write the questions
Quizzes live in the form builder, so start there: create a free account, create a new form, and add questions from the field palette. The scorable types sit in the Choice group — Multiple choice shows every option at once, Dropdown collapses a long list, and Yes/No is a quick binary toggle. Give each question a clear label, add the answer options, and mark it required, so a skipped question is a deliberate choice rather than an accident.
Write the wrong answers with as much care as the right one. An option nobody would ever pick teaches you nothing; a plausible wrong answer tells you exactly which misconception people hold — and later, the per-question results will show you precisely how many chose it.
Around the scored questions, use the rest of the palette freely: a section heading to introduce each topic, a text block for instructions, page breaks to split a long quiz into steps, and unscored fields wherever you want context instead of a grade.
Step 2: Turn on quiz mode and set the correct answers
Open the form's settings and switch on quiz mode. From then on, each scorable question in the builder lets you pick which option is the correct answer and how many points it's worth — from 1 to 100, with 1 as the default. Leave everything at one point for a straight "how many did you get right" quiz, or weight the questions that matter most.
The maximum score is simply the sum of every scored question's points. A question left unanswered earns zero, and it still counts toward that total — skipping a question is scored as wrong, not skipped over, which is one more reason to mark scored questions required.
One editing caution: the correct answer is tied to the option's exact text. If you rename or delete an option that was set as the correct answer, that question quietly stops being graded until you pick a correct answer again — so re-check your answer key after any edit to a live quiz.
Step 3: Test it, then share one link
Publish the form and you get a single share link. Open it yourself and take your own quiz first: submit a deliberately imperfect run and confirm the score on the final screen is the score you expected. It's a two-minute test that catches a mis-set answer key before your respondents do.
Then share the link anywhere — email, chat, a slide at the end of a training session. People who open it need no account and nothing installed; the form works in any modern browser, phones included. Responses are unlimited on the free plan, whether ten people take your quiz or ten thousand.
Two options are worth switching on for quizzes specifically. Option shuffling randomizes the order of a question's choices for each viewer, which blunts answer-sharing in a room full of people taking the same quiz at once. And conditional logic can show a question only when a previous answer matches — for example, a follow-up that appears only for the people who answered yes.
What respondents see — and what you see
When someone finishes, the thank-you screen tells them plainly: "You scored 7 out of 10." The number is calculated on the server from the stored response, not in their browser, so a curious respondent with developer tools can't nudge it.
Your side is richer. The form's analytics page shows how many scored responses have come in, the average score as a percentage, and the distribution of scores — whether everyone clustered around 80% or split into two camps. Below that, every choice question gets a per-option breakdown, which is where quizzes earn their keep: a question most people get wrong is a teaching opportunity, and the specific wrong answer they picked tells you what to reteach.
Every individual response is in the response table as well, and the full set of answers exports to CSV whenever you'd rather slice the data in a spreadsheet.
Settings that keep a quiz under control
The per-form settings apply to a quiz like any other form. A closing date and time stops accepting responses at a deadline — handy when the quiz accompanies a session or an assignment. A response cap ends collection after a fixed number of submissions, and you can pause and resume the form manually at any moment.
Turn on owner notifications to get an email as each response arrives, or a respondent receipt to send each person a confirmation — the receipt requires the form to collect their address through an Email field. You can also customize the thank-you message and the submit button's label, and set an accent color so the quiz matches your brand.
What quiz mode doesn't try to be
Honesty about the edges saves you surprises. Scoring is single-answer only: Checkboxes questions (pick several) can't be graded, and there is no partial credit — an answer matches the correct option or it doesn't. There are no time limits, no lockdown browser, and no proctoring, so treat tuyaform quizzes as the right tool for training checks, screenings and self-assessments rather than high-stakes certification exams.
None of it costs anything. Forms, responses and quiz scoring are free without limits — tuyaform is ad-supported, and third-party ads never run on the page where people fill out your form. If you later use e-signatures, the free plan includes 30 emailed signature invitations a month; that metering never touches forms or quizzes.