[ARCHIVED] Why can't I randomize questions in a quiz?

[mdunn_adjunct]

Why can't I randomize (i. e., shuffle) questions in a quiz?  Answers can be shuffled.  Why not the questions?

Please, note: I am not asking about how to make a Question Group.  Rather, when I make a quiz, I want to be able to randomize the questions which will be seen by the students -- just like Canvas allows me to shuffle the answers.

Thanks!

[nwilson7 · Accepted solution]

Hello  @mdunn_adjunct ‌, you are almost there if you do use the question groups.  I am assuming you are using the classic quizzes and not new quizzes since shuffling questions is part of the settings choices in new quizzes.  

For classic quizzes, you put the questions in a question group and use the choose function and choose the same amount of questions that are in the group, ie. 10 of 10.  This will randomly pull 10 questions from your set and it will be different for each user.

Hope this helps!

Nick

[vanvleck]

How can we tell if that is working properly (and then if not who to report it to)?

I'm using a Question Group to poll students to "peer evaluate" everyone else in the course (upper-division, majors). I want the order that students appear to vary as we will be doing this several times through the end of the term. I've created a "test quiz" with only 3 variants. The Question Group is specified to select 3 of 3. So far I have not been able to get the order to randomize. Is it because it is such a small pool?

Questions are "numerical response", whole numbers only, 0 - 4.

Thanks for any insight.

Va Nee