Date: can be used when students need to input a date as an answer.

Dropdown box: can be used for students to select from a set of pre-defined answers.

Essay box: can be used for when students can enter a long text response. For short responses, try the text box instead.

Label:  this is not a question where students can respond, can instead be used to display some information on screen to students.

Page break: used to split questions onto a new page. All questions after the page break will be placed on a new page. Students must answer all required questions on the current page, before they can enter the new page.

Radio buttons: used when students can select an answer out of several check boxes. Note that only a single answer can be selected.

Rate: question type where students can rate a list of questions/topics depending on a scale.

Text box: allows for short answer responses from students. 

Yes/No: can be used for answering questions where the only response should be "Yes" or "No".

Questionnaire Question Types