# createTrainingQuestion

mutation · in the family [Training question](/reference/training-question/)

## What it does

Save one question into a course’s bank — the prompt, two to six options, which is right, the explanation — marked drafted or written.

Create a TrainingQuestion in the caller's org group (🎓 — THE WIRE); requires the unrestricted capability and the training-manage right. courseKey must be a live play key and stepN one of its steps (VALIDATION otherwise); a course's bank is capped at 60 non-doomed questions (CONFLICT/TRAINING_CAP). Born active — in the draw at once.

## What happens

Creates a record; an active question joins the draw at once.

## Who may call it

Capability area: **Training** — Courses, tests, certificates and the training rules of your team.

- Owner
- System Administrator
- Manager
- An API key whose scope allows `api:createTrainingQuestion`

## Arguments

| Name | Type | Required | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `input` | [NewTrainingQuestionInput](/types/NewTrainingQuestionInput/) `NewTrainingQuestionInput!` | yes | No further notes. |

## Returns

[TrainingQuestion](/types/TrainingQuestion/) `TrainingQuestion!` — A TrainingQuestion (🎓 — THE TRAINING PROGRAM, THE WIRE): ONE multiple-choice question of a course's bank — the prompt (at most 400 characters), 2..6 options (each at most 200 characters), correctIndex (0-based, below the options' count), the explanation shown after a sitting (at most 400 characters), the optional play step it tests and its source (drafted | written). THE STRICT SCHEMA: no unknown keys. active = in the draw · inactive = retired from the draw, kept · doomed. A course's bank holds at most 60 non-doomed questions (CONFLICT/TRAINING_CAP past it). courseKey is IMMUTABLE after birth. A submitted attempt is graded against ITS stored draw — a later edit here never re-grades it. NOT searchable (no filter roster until the face).

## Example request

```graphql
mutation ExampleCreateTrainingQuestion($input: NewTrainingQuestionInput!) {
  createTrainingQuestion(input: $input) {
    id
    sysId
    type
    caption
    status
    parentId
    rootId
    createdAt
    updatedAt
    revisionNum
    revision
    courseKey
    stepN
    prompt
    options
    correctIndex
    explanation
    source
  }
}
```

Variables:

```json
{
  "input": {
    "caption": "Blue jeans",
    "courseKey": "<course key>",
    "prompt": "<prompt>",
    "options": [
      "<options>"
    ],
    "correctIndex": 1,
    "explanation": "<explanation>",
    "source": "<source>"
  }
}
```

Send it with the envelope naming the version: `"extensions": {"at": {"version": {"name":"genesis","number":0}}}`.

## Example response

```json
{
  "data": {
    "createTrainingQuestion": {
      "id": "01900000-0000-7000-8000-37386ae00000",
      "sysId": "TQ-EXMP-0000-000F",
      "type": "TrainingQuestion",
      "caption": "Blue jeans",
      "status": "active",
      "parentId": "01900000-0000-7000-8000-065235280000",
      "rootId": "01900000-0000-7000-8000-a093dd800000",
      "createdAt": "2027-01-31T00:00:00.000Z",
      "updatedAt": "2027-01-31T00:00:00.000Z",
      "revisionNum": 1,
      "revision": "01900000-0000-7000-8000-b7960e180000",
      "courseKey": "<course key>",
      "stepN": 1,
      "prompt": "<prompt>",
      "options": [
        "<options>"
      ],
      "correctIndex": 1,
      "explanation": "<explanation>",
      "source": "<source>"
    }
  },
  "extensions": {
    "at": {
      "callId": "01EXAMPLE-CALL-ID",
      "version": {
        "requested": {
          "name": "genesis",
          "number": 0
        },
        "serviced": {
          "name": "genesis",
          "number": 0
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
```

## Errors this call can answer

- `VALIDATION/INVALID` — Something in the request is not valid. ([VALIDATION](/errors/VALIDATION/))
- `AUTHN/REQUIRED` — Sign in to do this. ([AUTHN](/errors/AUTHN/))
- `AUTHZ/FORBIDDEN` — Your role does not allow this action. ([AUTHZ](/errors/AUTHZ/))
- `RATE_LIMIT/THROTTLED` — Too many requests in a short time. ([RATE_LIMIT](/errors/RATE_LIMIT/))
- `CONFLICT/*` — The record’s state, or a change made in the meantime, does not allow this; the codes are on the CONFLICT page. ([CONFLICT](/errors/CONFLICT/))
- `VALIDATION/VERSION_REQUIRED` — The request did not say which app version it came from. ([VALIDATION](/errors/VALIDATION/))

## Dry run

Add `dryRun: true` to the request envelope (`extensions.at`) to rehearse this call: every check runs, the write is rehearsed against the current records and nothing is stored; the answer is the refusal a real call would give, or the record it would create. Every response to a rehearsal carries `dryRun: true`, so a rehearsed record is never mistaken for a saved one.