Answer Choice Identifier Shuffling With Answers

Hi Ted Nguyen,

Can you have a look the source file the your client requirement is fulfilled the identifiers for the questions and have them shuffled.

can you share, if any, issues about on this.

Thanks.

Vinod,

Thank you for your reply.  I like the way you've attached the identifiers to the questions.  How did you do that?  I was assuming you group them with the questions but I didn't see the groupings. As for the client requirements, the identifier need to stay static or stay in the order of A, B, C, D., when the questions are shuffled.

Thanks

Hi, Ted - Glad to see that Vinod was able to provide some assistance, and hopefully, he will be able to share a few more details with you on the steps he took. :)

Christie,

I am beginning to wonder if, I am the only one using question identifiers with long answers.  This is where the question shuffling becomes a problem.  

Hi, Ted - Assuming you need the ABCD to stay in place, you might want to turn off the answer shuffle. So, you could put the ABCD within the answers and turn the shuffle to 'none' as seen below:

Christie,

Thank you for the reply, but my point it, I need the answer to shuffle, if not a student can take the test and write down the answers and just give it to another student.  lol

Hi Ted!

If you need an identifier to stay static on a question slide, the option would be to turn off the answer shuffle as stated above. When you do this, you can still shuffle the questions so the users do not get the same questions. I assume you are using a question bank for the to shuffle? The option to shuffle the questions is  separate from the answers being shuffled.

Emily,  

See Lu Post's post attached.  In the story file I have attached, if I have answer longer than two lines and some singles, then the static identifiers would not align when the question shuffles.  I am not shuffling the questions, just the answers.  It would work if it is a single line answer.  We are providing a more detailed answers then most.

Thanks

Hi Ted,

I guess I am unclear of what you need in your set up. Originally you stated that When the question are shuffled, the identifier are also being shuffled. And that the identifier needs to stay in order of A,B,C,D. in order to keep these in a static order, you would not be able to shuffle the answers.

But it seems now you are having issues with Alignment? Could you please clarify what you are trying to achieve. i apologize for any confusion from my behalf.

Emily,

I am attaching a screen recording to explain my problem.  I am trying to come up with a way to have the identifiers align up with the long answers when they are shuffled.

Hi Ted

when you have the options selected go into Arrange > Size > Grow to largest then all the text boxes will be the same size so that when they shuffle they don't overlap - you might then need to align vertically so they display correctly and you find it turns to a scroll panel because your answers are long

Wendy,

Thank you for the suggestion.  It works on some and requires lots of adjustments to answer font size and placement of the texts.  I had to go down to 8 pt font.  The scroll is one of them and at 8 pt, screen reading would be very difficult.  We decided to not have the identifiers to solve this issue for now.  Another way, is to shorten the answers.

Thanks again.

Ted