The Mandatory Questions feature allows you to mark certain or all questions as required. You can also control when enforcement takes place, giving you flexibility in how strictly test-takers must answer these items before moving forward.
Purpose
Mandatory questions help maintain assessment quality by ensuring responses are provided to essential items. This is especially valuable when:
- Some questions are essential for evaluation or compliance.
- You want to prevent incomplete responses on key topics.
- You need to filter qualified candidates based on minimum response requirements.
Enforcement Levels
The system supports three levels of enforcement:
1. Page-Level Enforcement
Test-takers must answer all mandatory questions on the current page before advancing.
- Do nothing: No restriction is applied. Test-takers may skip questions freely.
- Warn: The system displays a warning when leaving the page with unanswered mandatory questions.
- Prevent: Test-takers cannot leave the page without answering all required items.
2. Section-Level Enforcement
Test-takers can skip mandatory questions within a section but must address them before moving to the next section.
- Do nothing: No enforcement at the section level.
- Warn: Displays a warning if unanswered mandatory questions remain in the section.
- Prevent: Blocks progression until all mandatory questions in the section are answered.
3. Test-Level Enforcement
Enforcement is applied only at the submission stage. Test-takers must answer all mandatory questions before completing the test.
- Do nothing: The test can be submitted with unanswered mandatory questions.
- Warn: A warning message appears at submission if required questions remain unanswered.
- Prevent: The test cannot be submitted until all mandatory questions are answered.
System Exceptions
In cases where a page or section cannot be revisited (e.g., due to time limits or navigation restrictions), the system automatically applies the Prevent rule. Test-takers will not be allowed to move forward without answering mandatory questions, regardless of your chosen strategy.
Example Scenario
If the configuration is made as follows:
Then the test-taker can:
- Leave a page without answering mandatory questions.
- Receive a warning when attempting to leave the section.
- Be blocked from submitting the test until all mandatory questions are answered.
Default Settings
When a new test is created, the default option at the Page level is set to Prevent. This ensures that test-takers cannot navigate away from a page without answering its mandatory questions, unless changed by the test creator.
Best Practices
✅Use Page-level Prevent for knowledge tests where each item is critical.
✅Apply Section-level Warn to allow flexibility but still remind test-takers about missing answers.
✅Use Test-level Prevent when only the final completeness of the test matters.
✅Combine levels strategically to balance fairness and test integrity.
