Add and edit follow-up text
Updated 30 Aug 2024
Follow-up text makes a pedagogical point about a part or hint question. Follow-up text is optional.
- Follow-up text appears after a student completes a part question, whether the student answers correctly, exhausts all answer attempts, or requests the answer.
- Follow-up text is not limited to text. Although it’s called follow-up text, this element can include an image or link, as well as TeX and other formatting options available from the editing toolbar and menus.
When follow-up text can be helpful for students
- When a student answers a question correctly, the follow-up text can reinforce a concept or provide some context about the answer.

- When a student requests the answer to a part or hint question, the follow-up text is shown. For a hint question, this text can provide guidance towards the successful completion of the main part question.

Delete follow-up text
- Open the Simple Editor so that the item you want to edit appears in the Edit Item window.
- Scroll down to the Follow-Up Text box you want to delete.
- Select the remove follow up text link and then select OK to confirm the deletion.
See also:
Add and edit wrong-answer feedback | Add and edit parts (questions and answers in items)