How to get started with quizzes

Setting up a quiz is quick - you can be up and running in hours or minutes, not days. Here's a quick overview of how it works and the choices you'll make along the way.

Start with your questions. Sign up for free and you can start creating straight away. We'd recommend somewhere between three and five questions for most use cases - enough to be interesting without outstaying your welcome - but you can have as many or as few as you like.

Choose when to reveal the answers. You've got two options: show the correct answer straight after each question, or save them all up and show the results at the end. Both work well, but if you're using the quiz to recruit new supporters, saving answers to the end tends to be more effective. It builds a bit of suspense and gives people a reason to keep going - they want to see how they did.

Make it look like your brand. You've got a few options for how the quiz appears. You can run it full-screen with a background image or colour, which works well as a standalone experience. Or you can embed it among other content on an existing page on your website. Either way, you can set up your colours, fonts, and branding so it feels like part of your site - not a third-party tool bolted on.

Decide how you want to capture data. This is where you can tailor the quiz to fit what you're trying to achieve. If you're using it to recruit new supporters, you can include a sign-up form (with opt-in consent or using soft opt-in) before people see their results. If you already have someone's details (say they're taking the quiz as part of a welcome journey), you can hide the fields you don't need.

Show people their results. You can display results right there in the quiz widget, redirect people to a separate page, or both - show the results on the page you redirect them to. That redirect can be wherever makes sense: your donation page, a campaign action, or something else entirely. It's just a URL, so you're in control of where people end up. And any data someone entered during the quiz - their name, email address, whatever you collected - can be pre-filled on the next page. So if you're sending people on to a donation page, they don't have to type everything in again.

Help people spread the word. If you're using the quiz to grow your supporter base, you can include share buttons on the results page so people can share the quiz with their networks. These work both in the widget itself and on your thank you page - so wherever you're showing results, you can make it easy for people to pass it on.

That's it. No developers needed, no lengthy setup process. Sign up, write your questions, set your branding, and optionally set up your integration with Engaging Networks. Get started free, or get in touch if you'd like to talk through how a quiz could work for your organisation.

Coming soon. We're also working on the option to skip the form entirely - for times when data capture isn't the goal and you just want to educate or engage. You'll be able to redirect people straight to another page when they finish, no sign-up required. Keep an eye on our roadmap for updates.