Summary: I think having a specific Quiz type of Online Actions form in EveryAction with some added quiz bells, whistles, and functionality could be a killer app!
Why: Quizzes are a great way to engage users, keep email engagement high, for acquisition purposes, and a way to involve users even when a legislature is not in session. However, many organizations use a built-for-purpose quiz tool that comes with best practices for quizzes (answers, scores). This creates an extra manual task to import the engagement data back into EveryAction. As quizzes might be around for a long time, the risk of admins not importing this data is high.
EveryAction’s Signup Forms can support quizzes, after a fashion. Here’s a recent quiz we built for EDF Action using a Signup Form: https://actnow.edfaction.org/a/farm-bill-quiz
Features that are good: the ability to drop in a merge field for “your answer” on the Thank You page, the ability to map answers and the form to Activist Codes and Source Codes, the answers and record of participation automatically are attached to the contact’s record.
Things that would make this more quiz-like:
- The option to dynamically display “Correct! and supporting text” or “Incorrect: narrative text” immediately after submission of each question, so the quiz taker knows immediately if they were right or wrong.
- The ability to calculate a score at the end of the quiz (and optionally give some questions more points than others). Also to give a custom name/image for each score, like “Environmental Expert!”
- The ability to include images as options for choices, like if the question was “Of these two images, one is a housecat and the other is a bobcat. Choose the image that is a bobcat.” (This could also be repurposed to allow members to vote on images, like the cover of a calendar or something like that.)
- Other things that make quizzes and trivia games fun and keep people coming back.
Thanks for reading!
