Create a Math Quiz in Microsoft Forms
Published Jun 12 2018 09:00 AM 59.6K Views
Microsoft

Hey Math teachers, here is how Microsoft Forms can help you create quizzes for easier assessments!

 

Math Quiz Forms.png

 

 

Create a Math type question

 

  1. In your web browser, navigate to http://forms.microsoft.com, sign in with your O365 Education account and click New quiz to begin creating your quiz.

  2. Click Add question to add a new question to your quiz, and pick Choice or Text type.
  3. To display math equations, click the ellipses button (...) and then click Math.

  4. Click in Enter an equation text box and a virtual math keyboard will be displayed for you to input your equation.

 

MathKeyboard.PNG

 

 

 Choose the correct answer

 

If you picked a Choice question, some equations will trigger a correct answer suggestion after typing in your equation. Click on the suggested option to add it as a choice.

 

AnswerSuggestion.PNG

 

 

We hope you enjoy using Microsoft Forms, and if you have any questions or feedback, we would love to hear from you at https://microsoftforms.uservoice.com.

 

 

36 Comments
Copper Contributor

Hello Mina,

When you use the math editor, is this mathml/html code?  I'm asking regarding if the math quiz is accessible for a screen reader user. 

Thank you-

Alice Wershing

Microsoft

Hi @Alice Wershing,

 

Currently the screen readers read Math equations in Forms in LaTeX format. The user can navigate the virtual math keyboard using (the physical) keyboard and each individual field/symbol is read by the screen reader. 

 

Feel free to try it out yourself - if you see ways for us to improve this experience, please submit feedback at https://microsoftforms.uservoice.com/ .

 

Thanks!

Mina

Copper Contributor
When I click on the (...), I don't get the math equation option. I only see "Subtitle", "Shuffle Options" and "Drop-Down". I can't find anyplace where I could change options to show more.
Microsoft

Hey @Jamie Nordstrom, make sure you are doing this within a Quiz, not a Form - when you go to forms.office.com , click on the New Quiz button. 

 

Copper Contributor

Is there any way for students to access math equations when responding to short answer questions? 

Microsoft

@dhward Yes, this update will be rolling out later this month!

Copper Contributor

Hi !
Wonderful ! I hope we will receive good news pretty soon.Smiley Wink

Copper Contributor

When I click on the (...), I don't get the math equation option. I only see "Ranking", "Likert", "Net Promoter Score", and "Section".  I can't find anyplace where can I can change options to show more.

Microsoft

Hey @cdw0502 you first need to create a Text or Choice question - you will then see ... menu in the lower right corner of the question itself. Also, make sure you are creating a Quiz, not a Form!

Math option Forms.png

 

Copper Contributor

@Mina Spasic you commented above that the ability for respondents / students to enter math symbols in their responses would "be rolling out later this month!".  That was Feb of 2019, 13 months ago.  I still don't see that feature when I preview my quizzes in the Forms webapp.  Am I missing something or is still not available?

Microsoft

@MattDavis719 yes, this functionality has been available for a while now. Can you send me a screenshot of your quiz to see where the issue might be?

Copper Contributor

Hi,

I'm still here. 

In France we are now over booked as we began teaching through Teams since last Monday ! it is absolutely not commun in France, as National Education Dpt is leadin with a formal aducation : 1 teacher, 40 16-years-old fellows.

Personnally, I want to thanks Forms'Team as it wrks pretty welly, even if you can't do at the same time mathématics langage and French.

I don't have time naow to partake more, but I really wants to fellow the 2 years experiement of Teams school as I am doing with you.

Regards, 

Bertrand

Copper Contributor

@Mina Spasic Thanks for the quick response!  I started playing around with a test quiz and was able to get the equation editor to show up when I added a 'Math' subtitle to the question and left the student response as not 'Long answer' (see question 5 below).  I then went back and removed the subtitle and the equation editor remained in the student view.  So then I created another question where I just typed an equation in the text of question without ever creating the 'Math' subtitle(see question 6).  The student response once again allowed equation editor.  However, my first free text response question doesn't contain any math and doesn't allow an equation editor in the response(see question 2).  This sort of makes sense now that I've been through all these different question types, but why isn't it just a toggle switch while building the form "Enable equation editor for responses"?  Hiding the functionality in some sort of text interpreter where the flags for turning it on and off are not explicit makes inducing behavior very frustrating from the form builder perspective and will lead to widely varied builder inputs.  I.e., You'll get instructors putting random "=" at the end of their questions because that's how they know to get math turned on in the response block.

Further, how do I get math turned on for long answers?  If I ask my statistics students to conduct a hypothesis test on some data, the response I expect from them includes some mathematical symbology and is certainly longer than a single line.

 

MattDavis719_0-1584642895459.png

 

Copper Contributor

@Mina Spasic Thanks for the quick response!  I started playing around with a test quiz and was able to get the equation editor to show up when I added a 'Math' subtitle to the question and left the student response as not 'Long answer' (see question 5 below).  I then went back and removed the subtitle and the equation editor remained in the student view.  So then I created another question where I just typed an equation in the text of question without ever creating the 'Math' subtitle(see question 6).  The student response once again allowed equation editor.  However, my first free text response question doesn't contain any math and doesn't allow an equation editor in the response(see question 2).  This sort of makes sense now that I've been through all these different question types, but why isn't it just a toggle switch while building the form "Enable equation editor for responses"?  Hiding the functionality in some sort of text interpreter where the flags for turning it on and off are not explicit makes inducing behavior very frustrating from the form builder perspective and will lead to widely varied builder inputs.  I.e., You'll get instructors putting random "=" at the end of their questions because that's how they know to get math turned on in the response block.

Further, how do I get math turned on for long answers?  If I ask my statistics students to conduct a hypothesis test on some data, the response I expect from them includes some mathematical symbology and is certainly longer than a single line.

 

MattDavis719_0-1584642895459.png

Copper Contributor

@Mina Spasic , Thanks for the quick response.  I played around some more with my experimental quiz and was able to turn on 'math' for responses a couple different ways.  I've attached a screen shot for reference.  However, I'm confused why this isn't just a flag or switch for the form builder.  As it is now, I have to include something that Forms interprets as math in either the question field or invoke the 'Math' subtitle in order to turn on math inputs (equation editor) for responses.  That is frustrating and I suspect will lead to form builders putting random "=" at the end of their questions just to enable math.  

 

An example of where I might want to enable math in a response without any in my question:

 

"Using the table of data in the image, conduct a hypothesis test for a difference of means."

 

A complete answer to this question includes both text and mathematics expressions, but this question as written (as far as I can tell) would not have the equation editor enable.

 

The screenshot below shows what I came up with to get "math" working in the responses or not.

 

MattDavis719_0-1584648784441.png

 

Copper Contributor

How do I get mathtype into the question line? particularly sub and superscripts (I see you can have the math type in a separate line but can I get it in the middle of a sentence and multiple places within the question line?

Microsoft

@Cap23 unfortunately Forms does not currently allow for both text and math in the same line.

Copper Contributor

Thanks for getting back to me Mina

Has Shakespeak reappeared and now available or was it replaced by Microsift Forms.

Copper Contributor

Hi,

I was just creating a Maths quiz but I could not find the Union and intersection and so many other Maths symbols in it. Could you please guide me about it and secondly please add the option of Timer so that the students will be able to check how much time is left. Thirdly I would love to see the option of Response being submitted automatically once the time is over. 

Copper Contributor

@Muhammad_Kazam 

http://unicode.org/notes/tn28/UTN28-PlainTextMath-v3.1.pdf

I think what are you looking for you can find in pages 40 to 48.

Copper Contributor

@vkrstic loads of thanks. It was really helpful

Copper Contributor

Math option not available when clicking on ellipse. 

Etienne_Pienaar_0-1587635821865.png

 

Microsoft

@Etienne_Pienaar are you in a Form or a Quiz? Also, what type of question is this? Math option is only available in Quizzes for Choice or text questions.

Copper Contributor

It does take LaTeX!

 

Hubert_Lam_0-1588595826091.png

Hubert_Lam_1-1588595829656.png

 

Copper Contributor

Is it possible to enter multi line equations or matrix expressions ? (I have tried using the math palette, but maybe there is a way using direct LaTex text)

 

Copper Contributor

@gian666 -- I used double backslash " \\ " to create a LaTeX line break.  There are other commands to create linebreaks in LaTeX, but I haven't tested them here.

Copper Contributor

@MattDavis719Thankyou ! double backslash works, (I initially tried using a \align{} env, but that did not work) this solves the "two or more equations" problem, but writing a matrix is still somewhat limited.



 

Copper Contributor

Hi Im just new on this online making...I just wonder where I could find the symbols for set notation. Thanks.

Copper Contributor

@Mina Spasic  Is there anything new about Forms does not currently allow for both text and math in the same line.

 

Thank you.

Microsoft

@jessicalanguido1974 there are no keyboard buttons currently for set notation symbols, but you can use latex to input those.

@Spela995 no updates :( 

Copper Contributor

Hi

How can I insert the Greek letters in Microsoft forms? We have equation editor but it doesn't contain many math symbols.

 

 

Copper Contributor

Hi, 

I guess you have to use LaTeX code

https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/List_of_Greek_letters_and_math_symbols

for example \pi to obtain  π

Have a nice Day

Bert

Copper Contributor

Hi

Why can't equation editor be added to forms like in word, PowerPoint, onenote etc.

Then I could do extended response questions where the students could type the complete working. This would enable multiple line answers.

Also the pallet is small for single line responses, where the students will have difficulty writing calculus, unless they use LaTex, which most don't know.

Thanks

Damien

Microsoft

Hi @Damien888, thank you for providing your feedback. Can you please go to the following link and vote for these improvements https://microsoftforms.uservoice.com/forums/386451-welcome-to-microsoft-forms-suggestion-box ?

 

Iron Contributor

I am looking at Forms in O365 (GCC tenant) and I don't see Math under Choice or Text. 
Is this limited to EDU tenants, and/or Forms Pro?

Copper Contributor

Sir...in question we easy insert a maths equation but in mcq...very complex and also not see students original equations but $ /_=× this tyoe symbols seen....

Version history
Last update:
‎Jun 12 2018 06:03 AM
Updated by: