# Feature - select multiple answers in Online Assessments
**URL:** https://discussions.eramba.org/t/feature-select-multiple-answers-in-online-assessments/1168
**Category:** Forum - Software
**Created:** [August 27, 2019, 3:53pm UTC](https://discussions.eramba.org/t/feature-select-multiple-answers-in-online-assessments/1168 "2019-08-27T15:53:37Z")
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### Author:  [@Fabian](https://discussions.eramba.org/u/Fabian)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2019, 3:53pm UTC](https://discussions.eramba.org/t/feature-select-multiple-answers-in-online-assessments/1168/1 "2019-08-27T15:53:37Z")
Hi
Maybe I have missed something. Just started to play around with the online assessments module.
Is there (or will there be) a possiblilty to add questions where multiple answers could be chosen. Currently afaik it’s only possible to choose freetext or a list of predefined answers, where only one could be selected.
This would be very useful for the inventorisation of data collections (like: what type of data are you collecting? - name, - birthdate, -profession etc., usually it’s more than one). Or how is this solved by others? I don’t think it’s an option to add a separate question for each (do you collect names? -yes -no | do you collect birthdates? -yes -no etc…)
Kind regards
Fabian
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### Author:  [@eramba](https://discussions.eramba.org/u/eramba)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2019, 2:47pm UTC](https://discussions.eramba.org/t/feature-select-multiple-answers-in-online-assessments/1168/2 "2019-08-28T14:47:28Z")
This was never an option, it just too complicated to define this with a CSV file (the current method for uploading questionnaires) so for the time being we dont think is going to happen. We did a round of updates on the OA module a month or so ago, we’ll probably try another round later this year.
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### Author:  [@Fabian](https://discussions.eramba.org/u/Fabian)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2019, 7:21am UTC](https://discussions.eramba.org/t/feature-select-multiple-answers-in-online-assessments/1168/3 "2019-08-30T07:21:33Z")
Ok I understand.
It would have been a great use for our data protection project (yes, swiss people are a litte bit slower…). So the users could simply tick which data categories they work with etc.