How to randomize some of the quiz but keep some questions in order?

[CHENGHUIJIANG]

The exams are given with two types of questions: stand-alone questions and case questions. Our exams try to mimic the NAPLEX which means questions are forward-only, one question at a time.

I would like to have forward-only and randomized exam questions to minimize cheating. However, for the case questions, some subsequent questions rely on the previous questions. Therefore, I would like the cases themselves and the stand-alone questions to be randomized, and for the case questions to appear in order. 

For example, if question 1 was a stand-alone question, and questions 2-5 were part of one case, and question 6 was another stand-alone question. 

Then:

Student 1 would have the order:  1, 2-5,  6.

Student 2 would have the order:  2-5, 1, 6

Student 3 would have the order:  6, 1,  2-5. 

such that the case question remained in order, while the case also got shuffled with the other questions.

[rwentzel]

There are two options I can think of.

If you are using Classic Quizzes you can place all the stand alone questions in a group that is set to use all the problems (however many there are). The downside is that all questions in the group will then be worth the same number of points. Then the case questions will appear in order after the group. You can still set the quiz to show one question at a time.

There is no randomization in the case questions, so you could make each case study one long question by using either an essay response (no autograding) or a multiple fill in the blank or multiple dropdowns (autograded). Then you could make a second group to randomize the order of the case studies.

If you are using New Quizzes, are you making each case study a stimulus with attached questions? In that case, selecting the setting to randomize the question order will treat each stimulus as a single unit.

Personally, I tend to use New Quizzes when I want the same questions for everyone but randomized, and Classic Quizzes with groups when I want students to get different but equivalent questions.

Hope that helps!

[greydon]

Hello @CHENGHUIJIANG 

You would need to use Question Banks for the randomization - it will pull from a pool of questions and students can have different questions if you are pulling less questions than there are in the pool. Here is the Canvas guide:

https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-create-a-quiz-by-finding-questions-in-a...

Similar to what @rwentzel said, there are different options for different types of quizzes. If you randomize and shuffle the questions, it should work. You will not be able to specify which student gets which order of questions however. The question bank can keep the same questions "2-5" (or randomize them as I mentioned above) and then the other questions will be switched around per student. If you specifically want it set up to choose which student gets which order, you'd need multiple quizzes and then assign the students to the quizzes. Hopefully this helps.