Type Answer

Type Answer is an open-response quiz activity. Instead of picking from a list of options, players read your question and type the answer themselves. Tikroo checks what they typed against the answers you accept and scores it like a quiz. It's perfect for questions where you don't want to give the answer away by showing choices.

How players experience it

1. The question appears (on the shared presenter screen in presenter mode, or on the player's own phone in self-paced mode).
2. The player sees a text box and a keyboard prompt to "Type your answer".
3. They type their response and tap Submit.
4. Their answer is checked on the server, and they get their own Correct / Incorrect verdict. The screen then flips to a "locked in" waiting state until the round ends.

Because the accepted answers live on the server and are never sent to players, there are no options to lean on. Everyone has to actually know the answer to type it.

Setting one up as a host

When you add a Type Answer activity to your Roo:

• Write your question in the question editor at the top.
• Add your accepted answers. Type each one and add it, and they show up as green chips. You can add as many spellings as you like (for example "USA", "U.S.A.", "United States"), and any one of them counts as correct.
• Remove an answer any time by tapping the × on its chip.

Matching is forgiving: it ignores capitalisation and extra spaces, so you don't need to add every case variation, just the genuinely different spellings or wordings you'll accept.

Players never see your accepted answers; they only see their own verdict after they submit.

Tips

• Add the obvious variations. Think about how people might phrase or spell the same answer. Add abbreviations, with or without "the", and common misspellings you're happy to allow, each as its own accepted answer.
• Keep answers short. Type Answer shines for one-or-two-word facts, names, and short terms. Long sentences are hard to match exactly, so save those for open-text activities.
• Great for genuine recall. Use it when you want to test what people actually know, without multiple-choice hints nudging them toward the answer.