Hotspot question

Use it when the answer is a location, not a word. Students have to recognise the thing itself, so it checks whether they can find the measuring cylinder in a set-up, not just name it. The clicks are checked automatically.

1. In a worksheet, use the + between two items, search for Hotspot question and choose it.

2. Click the pencil on the new question and write the question at the top.

3. Under Regions, click the picture placeholder and add your image. Describe it in Image description for students who use a screen reader.

4. Click Add region. A box appears on the picture: drag it over the right spot and drag its edges to resize it. The first region is marked Correct.

5. Click the tick.

Each region has its own card below the picture:

• Region shape: Rectangle, Circle or Polygon. For a polygon, use Add point to trace the outline.

• Correct: untick it to make a wrong region, for example a tempting mistake you want to explain.

• Region label and Region feedback are shown to a student who clicks that region, once the answers are revealed.

Under Question settings, Selection mode decides whether students give One region or click Multiple regions, and Maximum score sets the points.

Students click the picture to place a marker. With One region, a new click moves the marker; with Multiple regions, each click adds one. The arrow keys and Enter work too, for students who do not use a mouse.

If Show correct answers is turned on in the presentation settings, after submitting each click is numbered and marked Correct or Incorrect, together with the label and feedback of the region it landed in.

With One region, the answer is correct when the click lands inside a correct region. With Multiple regions, finding every correct region without a wrong click is correct, and finding some of them is partially correct. Clicks outside the correct regions count against the answer, so clicking everywhere does not pay.

Open Results on the question to see each student's click marked on the picture.

• Make a region a little larger than the object so a click near its edge still counts.

• Use a clear picture where the parts do not overlap; small details are hard to hit on a phone.

• Add a wrong region with feedback on the spot students most often choose by mistake.