Creating Randomized Quizzes in D2L

Randomizing questions in a quiz ensures that each student will receive a unique set of questions. Doing so can help reduce instances of cheating. D2L offers two ways to randomize questions:

Adding a Question Pool to a quiz adds a subset of questions from a larger question pool resulting in a different version of the quiz for each student. Question pools can be drawn from question libraries and/or from questions that are in other quizzes in the course. The greater the difference between the number of questions in the question pool and the number of questions on the quiz, the greater the chance that each student will get different questions.
Shuffling can be done without a question pool. Any quiz can have quiz questions shuffled. When shuffled every student gets the same set of questions, but the order of the questions presented will be different for each student. Quiz answers can also be shuffled to add additional variety to a quiz.

Add a Question Pool

Select More from the course menu bar.
From the dropdown list, select Quizzes.
Create a new quiz or select and existing quiz to edit.
In the Properties tab, select Add/Edit Questions.
From the New button, select Question Pool.
Enter a Question Pool Title , the Number of Questions to Select and the Points per Question.
Select Browse Question Library
Select from the existing questions in the Question Library
Select Add
Select Save

Shuffle Questions

Select More from the course menu bar.
From the dropdown list, select Quizzes.
Create a new quiz or select and existing quiz to edit.
In the Properties tab, select Add/Edit Questions.
Check the box next to "Shuffle questions at the quiz level".
Select Save and Close.

Note: Shuffling questions at the quiz level does not shuffle the questions in a section. To shuffle questions within a section, choose "Shuffle questions in this section" when the section is created

NEXT STEPS

Once you've finished adding questions to your quiz, you'll want to preview it to make sure everything is correct before students begin taking it. View Previewing Quizzes in D2L.

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Have a quiz you need set up in D2L? Fill out this quick form, and the FITS staff will create it in D2L using the file you send us.

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