[ARCHIVED] How to generate question group order randomization for a quiz?

[c_mironiuc]

Hello,

I was interested in generating question order randomization for a Canvas Quiz.

In my Quiz, I have every question in a "Question group".

The setting for the quiz is selected on "One question at a time" and "Lock questions after responding".

I have watched a post on Canvas support where it has been explained that once you have each question in its corresponding "Question group", each question group will be shown to students in random order. So two students taking the same exam would see the same question groups, but not in the same order.

However, for me, once I select the "Preview quiz" option, I see all the Question groups one after the other in the order that I submitted them in the Canvas quiz. Is there an option to select the "Randomize question order" option somewhere?

Thank you in advance!

[Robbie_Grant · Accepted solution]

 @c_mironiuc ,

You cannot randomize the delivery of the question groups.  Question groups randomize the order of the questions in the group.  So if you have Group 1, Group 2, Group 3, etc., it will deliver the groups in that order, but all of the questions in each group will be delivered at random.

Robbie

[c_mironiuc]

Thank you very much for your answer!

So, if there is a quiz of ~40 questions, and I wish that each student gets the question and answers in a random order, it would suffice to put all the questions of the exam in a Canvas group (for the questions for which I want their order to be delivered randomly to the students) the questions for which I want a fixed position outside the group, and set the "Answer shuffling" to "On".

Would this be correct?

Thank you in advance!

[Robbie_Grant]

 @c_mironiuc ,

Yes, that would be correct.  Just be careful with shuffle answers.  Make sure that there are no "all of the above" or "both A and C" possible answers, because shuffling them will no longer make those answer choices make sense.

Robbie