Locking a Question Position

[KyleToronto]

Hello!

I have a quick question. I am designing an exam in "new quizzes" and I am wanting the exam to shuffle most of the questions, but I would like a few locked in a certain position. For example, I want the first question to be agreeing to the academic integrity code. If that shuffled to a position other than one it won't make sense.

Is this something I can do?

Thanks!

Kyle

[NicoletteStaley]

If you want to shuffle the order of only some questions in a New Quiz and not all, you can do this by using question groups of Item Bank questions.  Basically, you would want to add the questions that you want to have shuffled to an Item Bank.  Then you would insert the questions from the Item Bank into the quiz as a group.  The order of the questions from the Item Bank will be shuffled, but the other questions in the New Quiz will remain in the order that they have been placed in.

How do I create an item bank in New Quizzes? 

How do I add all items or a random set from an item bank to a quiz in New Quizzes? 

[ColtonSwapp]

Hello @KyleToronto 

Thanks for posting this in the Canvas Community! 

I understand your question and I would love to answer this. 

The best way to do this would be to setup your quiz with the questions in the order that you want them. You would then use an Item bank for your questions that you want to be pulled at random. You would edit the item bank within the quiz and tell it to randomly select a certain amount of questions from the bank. When the students take the quiz, they will go through the questions you have individually listed/locked on the quiz. When they reach the questions that are being pulled from the item bank, it will pull them at random for the students. 

Hopefully this helps! 

-Colton 

[anncalhounsauls]

As a point of clarification on the above answers:

The item bank questions are not shuffled if you click the "Use all questions" option. You have to click the "Randomly select questions" option and then enter the total number of questions in the bank where it asks for the number of questions to add.