Build an employee training quiz that checks understanding and sends you each result

Write questions that test understanding

Most training quizzes test recall of a slide ("How many days do you have to report a data breach?"). Better ones test whether someone would act correctly. Rewrite recall questions as short scenarios:

• Recall: "What does the clear-desk policy say?" Scenario: "You're leaving for lunch with a client list printed on your desk. What do you do?"
• Recall: "Who is the fire marshal?" Scenario: "The alarm sounds while you're on a call with a customer. What's your first action?"
• Recall: "Define phishing." Scenario: show a sample email with a mismatched sender and ask whether to click, report or reply.

Write wrong answers that a real person might pick, not obvious jokes, and give feedback for each one explaining why. The feedback is where the learning happens: someone who gets a question wrong and reads a clear explanation remembers it better than someone who guessed right.

Structure and pass marks

Length

Eight to fifteen questions for a session of an hour or so. Longer quizzes test stamina more than understanding.

Order

Shuffle questions and answer options, so colleagues sitting together can't simply copy.

Pass mark

Set it on the critical questions, not an overall percentage. Getting the fire procedure wrong matters more than a question about the history of the policy.

Retakes

Allow them, after the feedback has been read, and record the number of attempts.

Result screen

Score, what was missed with explanations, and a clear pass or not-yet message.

Getting results back

An Anticode app has no network and no accounts, so the quiz can't record results centrally on its own. What it can do is send each result to you. Its contact form goes through Anticode's form pipeline: name, email and a message are required, and extra fields, such as the score, pass or fail, the attempt number and which questions were missed, are added to the message. Each submission reaches the trainer by email and in the Anticode inbox, and a connector to Google Sheets or Airtable can collect them in a table for a simple record.

Describe it to Anticode

"An employee training quiz on our information security training. Twelve scenario questions, four options each, with feedback for every option. Questions 3, 7 and 10 are critical and must be correct to pass, plus nine out of 12 overall. Shuffle questions and options. At the end, show the score and the missed questions with explanations, and ask for name, email and team before sending the result to me, including the score, pass or not yet, the attempt number and the missed question numbers. Allow a retake after reading the feedback. Plain, calm design."

Supply the questions and feedback yourself; a model can draft them, but your policy is the authority. Publish it and share the link at the end of the session.

Where it falls short

• No learner records. There's no account per employee and no history beyond the submissions you've received.
• No assignments or reminders. The app can't send the quiz to staff or chase those who haven't done it.
• No proof of identity, as above.
• No standard packages. It doesn't produce SCORM or xAPI for a learning management system.
• Public by link. Anyone with the link can open it, so don't put confidential procedures in the questions.

If you need assignment, tracking and certificates across a company, use a learning management system; the LMS prototype page covers that decision. For other quiz types, see the practice test maker and survey maker.

Questions people ask

Can an employee training quiz built this way count for compliance?

It records that someone sent a result, by email and in your inbox. Whether that's enough depends on your regulator; for formal records, use a learning system.

Can I see everyone's results in one place?

Yes, if you connect form submissions to a Google Sheet or Airtable table, or export them from your inbox.

Can staff take the quiz on their phones?

Yes. Published apps work in any modern mobile browser.