DEI Quiz for HR Teams and Workplace Trainers

Anyone taking this assessment gets more than a score: every question comes with a written explanation, so a wrong answer about affinity bias turns into a short lesson on it. The person who sends it out gets a clean pass or fail record for each employee, which is exactly what an annual compliance file needs. The template covers unconscious bias, inclusive language, microaggressions, and allyship, matches the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion training most companies already run, and takes a typical employee 10 to 15 minutes to finish.

Eight questions, three formats

The 8 questions mix single choice, select all that apply, and true or false items. Some test definitions: "What is 'unconscious bias'?" asks takers to separate implicit associations from deliberate discrimination. Others test judgment in realistic situations, like choosing the right response after realising a comment you made may have landed as a microaggression. The trickiest item is a multi-select that lists four workplace behaviours and asks which count as microaggressions, forcing takers to weigh each one instead of pattern-matching to a single right answer.

Two true or false statements round it out, including one probing whether equity and equality mean the same thing, a distinction plenty of well-meaning managers still blur. Skipping is permitted and takers can step back to revisit earlier answers, with a progress indicator showing how far along they are.

Passing means seven of eight

Every question carries 12.5 points toward a 100 point total, and the pass mark sits at 80. In practice that means a taker can miss exactly one question and still certify; two misses lands them at 75 and a fail. That is a deliberately strict bar for a compliance topic, and it is adjustable if you want a different standard.

Feedback is not shown mid-quiz, so takers cannot reverse-engineer answers as they go. Instead, the explanations appear with the results, turning the score screen into a review session. Anyone who falls short can try again, since repeat attempts are switched on, and the explanations give them something concrete to study before the second run.

Rolling it out to a full headcount

The quiz is free to use, and distribution scales with however your company communicates. Share it as a direct link in Slack or your intranet, print a QR code for break rooms, embed it on an internal page, or, if your intranet runs on WordPress, paste the Uplup plugin's shortcode where you want it to appear. A lead capture step can record each taker's name so results tie back to real people.

On the reporting side, response analytics show scores and question level results, so if much of the company stumbles on the affinity bias item, you know exactly which part of training to reinforce. Export everything to CSV for your compliance records, or push completions to other tools through webhooks and Zapier. Branding is adjustable too, so the quiz can carry your company's look rather than a generic one.