Multiple choice (image options, one answer)

Use it when what students have to recognise is visual: a new word and the thing it names, a map, a graph shape, a plant or a piece of equipment. A picture also helps younger students and language learners, who can answer without reading long options.

1. In a worksheet, use the + between two items and choose Question.

2. If the question is not already open, click its pencil, and write the question at the top.

3. Click Add an answer option once for each picture.

4. On each option, click Add Media and choose Upload Image or Choose from Repository, or paste a link to an image. You can also drag an image file onto the option.

5. Tick the box on the correct picture, and only that one.

6. Click the tick when you are done.

As soon as one option has a picture, the question shows its options as a grid of pictures. Each picture also has a text field below it, for a short label or to leave empty. If you tick a second picture as correct, the question becomes a several-answer picture question.

Students see the pictures side by side and click the one they choose. The click sends the answer: there is no Submit button, and the answer cannot be changed unless the presentation has The answer can be changed turned on.

If the presentation has Show correct answers turned on, the chosen picture turns green or red straight away.

Answers are checked automatically against the picture you ticked. With no picture ticked, answers are collected but not marked.

In the presentation, click Results on the question to see which picture each student chose; the results show the pictures themselves. The marks also appear in the grading screen.

• Use pictures of the same style and size, so the right one does not stand out for the wrong reason.

• Three or four pictures fit comfortably, also on a phone.

• Leave the labels empty when they would give the answer away.