Use Question Library and Question Pools to create a randomized set of quiz questions
Randomizing your quiz questions prevents learners from sharing the questions and answers with other learners in the course. This prevents cheating and removes an advantage some learners may have over others.
You must use Question Library to provide a random set of quiz questions. Question Library is a central repository where you can store questions to reuse in a course. As a best practice, we recommend that you create all your questions using the Question Library. This ensures your questions are stored in one central location for reuse and access. For more information, refer to About Question Library.
Question Pools allow you to create quizzes with randomized questions while using the new Question Creation Experience. Question pools are an effective way to prevent cheating on quizzes as they ensure each learner receives a unique set of questions. Once you have entered a title, the number of questions to select, and the points per question for your question pool, you can browse the Question Library or existing quizzes, surveys, and self-assessments, to select the desired questions. It is recommended that you organize your Question Library to include a section for each quiz. This makes it easier to locate the correct questions during the question pool creation process. A dynamic preview is automatically generated when questions are imported into a question pool. The preview allows instructors to quickly get an idea of how the question pool appear to learners when taking the quiz.
To create a question pool and give each learner a random set of quiz questions
- Navigate to Quizzes.
- Click the name of your quiz.
- Click Create New > Question Pool.
Figure: Click Create New and then click Question Pool.
- In the New Question Pool dialog, enter a title in the Question Pool Title field.
- Enter the number of questions you want taken randomly from the pool in the Number of Questions to Select field.
- Enter the number of points each question is worth in the Points per Question field.
- Click Browse Question Library.
Figure: Enter your question pool details in the fields.
- Select the questions you want to include in the question pool by selecting the question's check box. Questions are automatically chosen at random from the ones you select.
Note: If you are also using sections in your Question Library, you can select questions from different sections. You may have to expand the section (and sub-sections) to see the nested questions.
- Click Import to add the questions to the question pool.
- Click Save.
- Repeat this process if you have multiple sections in your quiz, with each section drawing a random set of questions.
- Click Save and Close.
You have created a section and given each learner a random set of questions.
Video: Create a randomized set of quiz questions
About random sections
You can create random sections in quizzes to distribute a unique set of questions to individual users. Random sections pull questions from a designated pool of questions (Question Pool) stored in the Question Library.
Since you can only access random sections within quizzes, you must create a quiz before you can create its random sections. You can import an infinite number of questions from Question Library into each random section, but you cannot create new questions within random section folders.
Managing random sections (renaming, reordering, deleting) is similar to managing quiz questions except you cannot publish random sections.
Converting random sections to question pools
In the quiz creation experience, all existing random sections convert to question pools. This does not change the quiz taking experience for learners.
In some cases, the system prompts you to move content from a former random section into a parent section. This occurs when either of the following conditions are met:
- The random section settings have Show Section Name selected.
- The random section message field contains information.
When you convert the random section, the title and message information moves to a parent section, and the randomization settings and questions move to a question pool nested inside that parent section.
Shuffle all the questions and sections in a quiz
If you want each learner to see all the questions or sections in a quiz in a different order, the quiz should contain questions only or questions in sections.
To shuffle all the questions and sections in a quiz
- Navigate to Quizzes.
- Click the name of your quiz.
- Expand the Timing & Display accordion.
- Under Shuffle Quiz, select Shuffle questions and sections within the quiz. Does not cascade to sub-sections.
Figure: Select Shuffle questions and sections within the quiz. Does not cascade to sub-sections in the Timing & Display accordion.
- Click Save and Close.
You have shuffled all the questions and sections of your quiz.
Shuffle a set of quiz questions using a section
Shuffle questions in a quiz while ensuring that certain questions appear in the same order.
To create a section and give each learner quiz questions in a different order in that section
- Navigate to Quizzes.
- Click the name of your quiz.
- Click Create New > Section.
Figure: Click Create New and then click Section.
- In the New Section dialog, enter a title in the Section Title field. Optionally, enter a section description in the Section Text field. Note: The Section Title is, by default, visible to learners. To ensure learners do not see the title, select Hide Section Title from learners.
- Select Shuffle questions in this section.
Figure: Enter a Section Title and select Shuffle questions in this section.
- Click Save.
- Drag and drop individual questions from your quiz into the relevant section. To move multiple questions into a section simultaneously, select the check box next to the questions, select Move To > Section, and then select the section name.
- Click Save and Close.
You have shuffled your quiz questions while maintaining a specific order for some questions in a section.
Randomize the answer choices in multiple choice and multi-select quiz questions
If you want to discourage your learners from cheating on quizzes with multiple choice and multi-select questions, you can randomize the answer choices for each question so the correct answer(s) are in a different order for each learner.
Note: When using answer choices that require the order to remain constant, for example answer choice C is Both A and B, or the final answer choice is All of the above, you do not want to randomize the answer choices in those types of questions.
To randomize answer choices in multiple choice and multi-select quiz questions
- Navigate to Quizzes.
- Click the Question Library tab.
- Click on the name of a question with the Type being MC (multiple choice) or MS (multi-select).
- Select Randomize answer order below the answer options.
Figure: Select Randomize answer order.
- Click Save.
- Click Done Editing Questions.
You have randomized the answer choices for a multiple choice or multi-select question.
Create bonus quiz questions
Create bonus questions to allow learners a chance to score extra marks on their quiz.
To create bonus quiz questions
- Navigate to Quizzes or Content.
- Click the desired quiz.
- Select the questions that you want to make as bonus questions.
- Click More Actions.
- Click Toggle Bonus.
Figure: Select Toggle Bonus from the More Actions drop-down menu.
Note: Bonus questions are shown to learners with the word (Bonus) displayed.
Figure: All bonus questions are shown with (Bonus) displayed.
Change a bonus question into a mandatory question
You can change a bonus quiz question to a mandatory question.
To change a bonus question to a mandatory question
- Navigate to Quizzes.
- Click the quiz you want to edit.
- Click the checkboxes for the bonus questions you want to make mandatory.
- Click More Actions > Toggle Mandatory.
Figure: Click More Actions > Toggle Mandatory to turn a bonus question into a mandatory question.
- Click Save and Close.
You have changed the selected bonus question into mandatory question.
Note: If you no longer want to a make a question mandatory, repeat steps 3-4 to remove the mandatory setting. By clicking the Toggle Mandatory option, you can add or remove the mandatory setting.
Use Sections to organize quiz questions
You can use sections to organize related quiz questions and display them to learners with a section header on a single page. This is useful when you want to present questions to a learner, but also organize questions conceptually by theme or parent topic. For example, sections could allow you to present all questions related to biology on a single page, or display a series of single biology questions on pages, each with the same section header.
To use sections to organize quiz questions
- From your organization or course navbar, click Quizzes.
- Click New Quiz.
- Enter a Name for your quiz.
- Under Questions, click Create New and select Section. The New Section page opens.
Figure: Enter details into New Section page.
- Enter a Section Title and click Save.
- To create a quiz question to add to this section, click Create New > New Question or select a question from the Question Pool.
- Click and drag the quiz question into the Section. The quiz question nests under the Section.
Figure: Review the Section of a quiz with all associated questions nested under it.
- Repeat steps 5 to 7 to create more sections and nested quiz questions.
- Click Timing & Display. Under Paging select Add page break after each section. This ensures that each section and all quiz questions nested under that section will display separately on a page.
Figure: Select the Paging option as Add page break after each section.
- Click Save and then click Preview.
Note: When you preview, each Section that you create displays all the questions nested under it on a single page.
Sections are added to your quiz to display related questions on a single page.
Video: Options for Randomizing Quizzes