Randomize questions in myCourses

Owned by Katrina Casey Kosyk, Miss
Last updated: Mar 26, 2024
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You can shuffle the order of questions in a quiz or create a Question Pool in a quiz and import questions into it from the Question Library to randomize the order of the questions for each student. You can draw a selected number of questions from the Question Pool to give each student a unique set of questions on the quiz. 

Additionally, you can combine Question Pools with the shuffling feature to create nested random sections in a quiz. For example, you can group quiz questions together by topic in Question Pools and then shuffle the order of those sections at the quiz level.

In this article:

1 Shuffle the order of quiz questions | 2 Shuffle the order of questions in a Section | 3 Create a Question Pool

Shuffle the order of quiz questions

  1. On the main Quizzes page, click the name of quiz you want to shuffle questions for.

  2. Select the checkbox beside Shuffle order of questions at the quiz level in the Quiz Questions area.

  3. Click Save and Close.

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Shuffle the order of questions in a Section

  1. Go to the Add/Edit Questions page within a quiz.

  2. Click the arrow beside the name of the section and select Edit.

  3. Select the checkbox next to Shuffle order of questions in this section.

  4. Click Save.

See Create question sections in myCourses for more information about how to set-up question sections.

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Create a Question Pool

You can create a random set of questions for a quiz using the Question Pool. Create a new Question Pool from the Question Library or on the Add/Edit Questions page of an individual quiz or self assessment. Quizzes will be used in this example.

  1. On the main Quizzes page, create a new quiz or select an existing quiz to edit.

  2. Click Add/Edit Questions.

  3. Click the Add drop down arrow and select Question Pool.

  4. Enter a Question Pool Title.

  5. Select Browse Question Library to choose questions for the quiz. Click the checkbox beside each question that you want to add, then click Import. See Import Questions into a myCourses Quiz, Survey or Self Assessment for more information.



  6. In the Number of Questions to Select field, enter the number of questions that will be given to students from the total Question Pool. For example, you can choose five possible questions from the Question Pool and have students answer three of them.

  7. Enter a value in the Points per Question field. All questions within a Question Pool will be assigned the same value.

  8. Click Save.

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