New Quiz: How to Stop Dropdown Fill in the Blank Order from Being Random?

[Anya_]

Now that the real RCE is present in New Quizzes and our school will mandate us into using them next Fall, I am trying to convert quizzes in a less-populated Spring course to prepare for using them next Fall. However, I am having an issue with Fill in the Blank questions. 

The order in the Dropdown is NOT the order that is presented in the Preview. I've deleted and re-entered the choices and Canvas still basically decides what order to present at random (even within blanks of the same question). All randomize options are off, so I'm not sure what to do. This is particularly annoying because there are two blanks in the question, each with the same choices, and I know having them in a different order is going to throw students off. 

Does anyone know how to reliably get New Quizzes to present the dropdowns in the way you've set them up?

See below for photos: 

The order of choices in the builder

The order Canvas decided for B1The order Canvas decided for B2

[Anya_]

I've tried making a new question in the right order, I've tried previewing the order and then adjusting the question text to the order Canvas chooses, nothing helps. Canvas picks a random order each time apparently. I don't understand how this could still be so given how long New Quizzes has been out...this seems a pretty big bug. Just started the migrating process and I'm already so tired! 😔

[ColtonSwapp]

Hello @Anya_ 

Thanks for posting this in the Canvas community! 

I was able to test this in my sandbox and I saw the same results as you did for these type of questions. I looked further into this and found THIS post in the Canvas Idea Conversations page. It appears that this has been an ongoing discussion for quite a while.... My guess is that for Fill in the Blank type questions, it shuffles the distractors around the correct answer, ignoring the set order you see in the build page. I'm not sure why that is since you have the ability to shuffle answers and questions from the build settings page of the New quiz. This seems like it might be a limitation or something with that type of question for New Quizzes. 

-Colton