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Put a picture on any answer option in a quiz or poll, such as a diagram, a symbol or a piece of equipment, for students to choose between.

Updated 1 November 2026

Some choices are easier to show than to describe. Add a picture to an answer option and students choose between the pictures, with or without words beside them.

**When to use it:** Identifying a diagram, a graph, a hazard symbol, a shape, a map or a piece of lab equipment. Or a poll where students pick the image that best matches how they feel.

**Where you can use it.** On the answer options of **Quiz** and **Poll** questions, on every plan. True/false questions and rating scales keep their own options, so they can’t have pictures. To add a picture to the question itself instead, see [adding descriptions and images to questions](https://www.gonurture.com/tutorials/signal/creating-sessions/adding-descriptions-and-images-to-questions.md).

## Add a picture to an option

1.  Open the question (or add a new **Quiz** or **Poll** question) and write it as usual.
2.  In the option’s row, select the picture button beside the option text. Hover over it and it says **Add image**. You can also paste a picture into the option, or drop one onto it.
3.  Choose your picture. It appears in the option, showing **Adding image…** while it uploads.
4.  If you like, choose **Add description** under the picture and say what it shows in the **Describe this image** box (up to 250 characters).
5.  Do the same for the other options, mark the correct one on a quiz, and choose **Save question**.

![Answer options with a picture on each: a beaker, a conical flask marked Correct, and a test tube, each with Add description beside it](https://www.gonurture.com/images/tutorials/adding-pictures-to-answer-options/options-with-pictures.webp)

-   **One picture per option.** To swap it, remove it with the cross beside it and add another.
-   **Words are optional.** Once an option has a picture, its text box says **Label (optional)**. An option can be a picture on its own, shown with its letter.
-   **PNG, JPEG, WebP or HEIC** (iPhone photos), up to **20 MB** each.
-   Saving waits until every picture has finished uploading.

On a phone, each option’s buttons (maths, picture, **Mark correct** and delete) sit on their own line under the option.

## Describe each picture

The description is what a screen reader reads out in place of the picture, so write what students need to tell the options apart: “Beaker” or “Conical flask” rather than “a picture”. Nurture AI reads the descriptions too, but never the pictures themselves.

## What students see

Each picture sits inside its option. Tapping the picture or the words chooses that option, as usual. The enlarge button in the corner of a picture opens it full size without choosing it, so students can look closely first.

Your results show each picture beside its option: in the answer bars, the insights and on the presenter view.

## Good to know

-   Duplicating a session or saving it to the Library keeps the pictures.
-   Printed answer cards stay as letters only, so the pictures show on your presenter screen but not on the cards.
-   Switching a question to **Open answer** removes its options, pictures included.

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Related articles

-   [Adding descriptions and images to questions](https://www.gonurture.com/tutorials/signal/creating-sessions/adding-descriptions-and-images-to-questions.md)
-   [Creating true/false questions](https://www.gonurture.com/tutorials/signal/creating-sessions/creating-true-false-questions.md)
-   [Running a poll](https://www.gonurture.com/tutorials/signal/creating-sessions/run-a-quick-poll.md)

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