Letting participants skip questions

Question blocks are required by default when they're first created. However, you can make questions in your study optional if the question isn't something you want or need every participant to complete—for instance, if certain questions should automatically be skipped as a part of a conditional logic path. 

Letting users skip questions can also be useful when you have a longer study and want to make sure participants complete it until the end. This will make it easier for them to skip any questions they don't want to answer and improve your completion rate.

What questions can I let participants skip?

These are the questions you can let participants skip:

• Multiple Choice

• Matrix

• Opinion Scale

• Open Question

• Simple Input

• Yes/No

Skipping missions

While it's not possible to make mission tasks (i.e. prototype or website tests) optional, participants are able to end the task at any time and continue with the study. Learn more:

• How to stop a prototype task in Maze

• Interacting with a live website test

Making your questions optional

To let participants skip a question, you need to make it optional. Here's how you do it:

1. Open the study builder

2. Open the question block you want to make optional.

3. Toggle Block is required to off.

This will enable a Skip button in the question, and participants will be able to skip the question and move forward in the study.