Shuffle Questions from Pool

[katyaucht]

Hello All,

Working on a quiz with question pools that are divided into different 6 different categories. Is it possible to shuffle the order that these questions appear in? I seem to only be finding information for shuffling the answers. We'd like questions to display in a random order, yet still be grouped by their category.

[Dieter1978]

Hi,

If you insert Random Questions slides in your project, you must link them to a question pool. Random questions slides will be replaced (on runtime) with a random question from the linked pool.

Say you have 3 pools with each 5 questions.

If you add 5 random question slides linked to pool 1, 5 linked to pool2 and 5 linked to pool3, than the resulting quiz will have the five questions from the first pool in a random order, then 5 questions from the second pool in a random order...

Does this answers your question?

[katyaucht]

Hello,

Not quite.  I understand that question pools will randomly select from within the pools.  What I don't want is a stagnant quiz where Question one will always be from pool A, question 2 always from pool B, question 3 from pool C, but instead, for the question orders to be random as well. Basically, I'm looking for the random slides to be shuffled, too.

Does that clarify?

[Lilybiri]

Not possible (at least not in an easy way, you could try to create a random navigation, but is that worthwhile a lot of efforts?)

[Captiv8r]

Hi there

I think I might have a way to accomplish your goal.

What I tried is to create an action that will simply jump to a specific slide when executed. I then assigned this action to the OnEnter event of a question slide. I'm sure the type of question wouldn't matter, but I used a True/False.

So my thought here is that you could accomplish randomizing among pools by taking the following approach. Create your pools. Let's say you have three. Pool A, B and C.

In your project, create three random question slides. One linked to Pool A, one linked to Pool B and one linked to Pool C.

Now create a Pool to be used as the "Pool Randomizer". Perhaps you add three questions to this pool. You then have three advanced actions. One will jump to the slide with the random question pointing to Pool A. The second will jump to the slide pointing to Pool B and the third will jump to the slide pointing to Pool C.

Assign each of the actions to the "OnEnter" event of each question in the "Pool Randomizer".

And lastly, where you want to randomize the pool you draw from, insert a Random Question Slide that points to the Pool Randomizer.

Hopefully that will accomplish what you are looking for!

Cheers... Rick

[Captiv8r]

I put together a video and placed on one of my channels to demonstrate.

[USJeepGirl]

Hello,

I'm not using a Pool Randomizer, I simply have 5 quiz questions, each of them on Shuffle in the Quiz Property Settings.  If the user fails, they have a retake Quiz option.  My expectation would be that each time, within that session, they have to retake quiz (and they have unlimited tries to pass), the answers would be shuffled. HOWEVER, the answers are not shuffling.  They shuffle upon loading the CBT compared to the source file, but no matter how often the user hit retake, none of the answer are being shuffled repeatedly every time the user hits the question. I'm testing in trial SCORM CLOUD as well as just running the SWF from my desktop.

Can you help explain why each time the user gets the question, it doesn't shuffle the answers every time?

Thank you,

Christine

[RodWard]

As far as I can recall that's just the way it works.  If you DO put the quiz questions in a pool and set that to shuffle the order of the questions, it only does it at the launch of the module, and no matter how many times you redo the quiz within that session, the order of questions pulled from the pool does not change.