Essay questions are designed to allow you to give an open response question. These questions are not automatically graded by Quest.
You will have to manually grade the question when using it on an assignment. Submissions will not be reflected in assignment grades until you have had time to grade and upload results to Quest. Because of this, essay questions only have a Question Body and Explanation.
The question body is the main content of the question, whatever question you want to ask and the information needed to answer it should go here.
The Explanation appears after the solutions viewable date has passed and the student has submitted their essay.
Once you have finished filling in the content of the question, you will have to save the draft by clicking the button at the bottom of the page. After you do so the option to Publish the question will appear at the top, a question is not usable on an assignment until it has been published. Publishing a question also prevents any edits.
