Change the Answer Choices in a multiple choice question

Owned by Matt Kepple
Last updated: Jul 26, 2023
4 min read

This article explains how to add, edit the text of, reorder and remove the Answer Choices in a multiple choice question that has already been added to a survey.

Previous survey response data will be altered when edit the text of an Answer Choice.

  • This is because Makerble records the ID of the answer choice that a respondent chose, rather than a snapshot of the text used for the answer choice at that time.

Previous survey response data will be altered when you remove an Answer Choice.

  • This is because Makerble records the ID of the answer choice that a respondent chose, rather than a snapshot of the text used for the answer choice at that time. So removing the Answer Choice will delete that Answer Choice’s ID.

You cannot directly edit the Answer Choices of a survey question that uses Shared Answer Choices.

Instead you must edit the Answer Choices of the Master Question and this will then automatically edit the Answer Choices of the questions that use Shared Answer Choices that are anchored to the Master Question

How to Add additional Answer Choices

Watch the walkthrough:

Step-by-step instructions

From the Categories (Lists) App

  1. Select My Apps in the top menu

  2. Select Categories

  3. You arrive in the Categories (Lists) App

  4. This displays:

    1. List fields you have created from within the Categories (Lists) App

    2. Every Master Question that your Multiple Choice survey questions with Shared Answer Choices are based on

    3. Every Multiple Choice survey question that you have created from scratch (i.e. not using Shared Answer Choices)

  5. Click Edit to edit the Category (List) you want to change the Answer Choices within

  6. You arrive on the Edit Category (List) page

  7. From here you can

    1. ADD additional Answer Choices

    2. EDIT the text of an Answer Choice

    3. REORDER the Answer Choices: Note: do this by changing the priority number rather than by cutting & pasting the answers themselves

    4. REMOVE Answer Choices

  8. Follow the steps in the next section…

How to ADD more Answer Choices

  1. Press Add Item

  2. In the Item box, write the new Answer Choice

  3. Press Save

How to EDIT the text of an Answer Choice

  1. Click into the text box for that Item

  2. Edit the text as necessary

  3. Press Save

How to REORDER the Answer Choices

  1. Click the Priority box under each item

  2. Change the number so that the Items (Answer Choices) are now in the order you want them to be, counting up from 1 where the Answer Choice with the lowest number (above zero) will appear first (i.e. on the left) and higher numbers will appear subsequently.

  3. Check that each Item (Answer Choice) has a unique

  4. Press save

How to REMOVE an Answer Choice

  1. Press Remove Item

  2. Press Save

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