To take a quiz, open your Bloom, switch to the Quizzes view, click a quiz from the list, and click Start Quiz (or Resume Quiz if you already started). You answer one question at a time, click Submit, and Bloom replies in the chat with feedback. Your progress is saved automatically after every submission, so you can close the tab and come back later.
Quizzes in Bloom are not pass-or-fail tests. They are a structured way to practise: you submit an answer, the AI tutor explains the reasoning, and you decide whether to keep going or revisit a concept.
Before you start
You need:
- A Bloom account, sign in at app.bloom.study.
- Access to the Bloom your teacher published the quiz in. If you cannot see the Bloom in your sidebar, ask your teacher or admin to enrol you.
- A quiz that has been published by your teacher. Drafts are not visible to students. If your Quizzes panel says “Your teacher or admin hasn’t published any quizzes,” there is nothing to take yet.
Step 1: Open the quiz list
Open your Bloom and switch to the Quizzes tab. You will see every published quiz for that Bloom, with a status badge next to each one:
- Not started: you have not opened it yet.
- In progress: you have answered some, but not all, questions.
- Completed: you have finished at least one attempt.
- Retrying: you started a fresh attempt on a quiz you had already finished.
Quizzes with a due date show Due: [date]. If a deadline is within seven days you will see a Due soon badge, and once it has passed you will see Overdue in red. Bloom does not lock overdue quizzes, you can still attempt them, but your teacher will see the completion timestamp.
Step 2: Pick a quiz and start
Click a quiz to open the detail screen. You will see the title, description, question count, due date, and a button on the right:
- Start Quiz if you have not begun.
- Resume Quiz if you left part-way through (Bloom will drop you on the first unanswered question).
- Retry on the list itself if you have already completed the quiz and want a fresh attempt.
Click the button. The first question loads, and the question counter at the top shows your position, for example Question 2 of 10.
Step 3: Answer each question
Bloom supports three question types:
- Multiple choice: click the option you think is correct (A, B, C, ...). Click again to deselect.
- True / False: pick True or False.
- Short answer: type your answer in the textbox.
Some questions also ask you to justify your choice with the prompt “Can you explain the reasoning behind this answer?” Type a sentence or two in the explanation box. The AI will use this to give you better feedback, even when your final answer is correct.
When you are ready, click Submit. The button is disabled until you have picked an option, entered text, or filled in the required explanation, so if it looks greyed out, check that you have done both parts.
Step 4: Read the AI feedback
As soon as you submit, Bloom does two things:
- Marks the question on the quiz panel (correct, incorrect, or pending review for short answers that need human grading).
- Sends a message into the chat panel where the AI tutor reacts to your specific answer. If you got it right, expect something brief and warm (“Exactly right!”) followed by a quick explanation of why your reasoning works. If you got it wrong, the AI uses growth-oriented language (“Not quite yet”), points at the misconception, and asks a guiding question rather than handing you the answer.
You can chat back and forth with the AI about that question, ask for a hint, ask for a different explanation, or share more of your thinking. When you are ready, click Next question on the quiz panel to move on. Use Previous to go back and re-read an earlier question, your already-submitted answers stay locked.
Step 5: Finish and review
After you submit the last question, the Finish Quiz button appears. Click it to see the completion screen with:
- Your overall score as a percentage and points (for example, 14 / 18 points).
- How many you got right out of how many were graded.
- How many short-answer responses are pending review, if any.
From here you have four options:
- Review Answers, walk back through every question and your AI feedback.
- Retry Quiz, start a brand-new attempt with empty answers (your previous attempt stays in your history).
- Get AI Feedback, the AI summarises your full attempt in chat, focusing on the questions you missed and the misconceptions it spotted.
- Done, return to the quiz list.
Common issues
The Submit button is greyed out
You either have not selected an answer yet, or the question requires an explanation and the textbox is empty. Pick an option (or type your short answer) and fill in the explanation if it is shown.
“Failed to save answer” toast
Your network dropped between clicking Submit and Bloom confirming the save. The on-screen mark stays, but to be safe, check your connection and click Submit on the next question normally, Bloom will catch the previous one up. If the error keeps appearing, refresh the page; you will resume from your last successfully-saved question.
“Validation error”
Usually means a short-answer field is blank, or a multiple-choice question has no option selected. Pick or type an answer and submit again.
I closed the tab, did I lose my progress?
No. Every submitted answer is saved server-side. Reopen the Bloom, go to the Quizzes tab, and click Resume Quiz, you will land on the first question you have not answered.
My short answer was marked wrong but it looks right
Short answers are matched against the answers your teacher entered (case-insensitive, whitespace-trimmed). A spelling difference, an extra word, or a synonym can fail the match. Use Get AI Feedback at the end and ask the AI to look at it, or message your teacher.
What’s next
- Get more out of the AI feedback by asking better follow-up questions → How to ask effective questions
- Understand why the AI guides instead of telling → The Socratic approach
- Open Bloom and try a quiz now → app.bloom.study