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Randomizing Question Banks
Hi!
I'm working on building an exam that requires randomization and a limited number of questions (2/5) that are pulled from each question bank (60 banks organized by difficulty and question type). Additionally the content creators want to be able to randomize the order of the question banks so that each student taking the exam would get a different ordering of the types of questions.
Is this possible? If so can someone assist me?
Thank you,
Shelley
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Hi, Marcos.
While randomizing questions from multiple question banks is not a feature of Storyline 360, I found a discussion with a few workarounds and suggestions:
Hi there,
A few years have passed from the last post in this thread.I wonder if there has been an update in this matter. It does not seem to be the case, unless I'm missing something, but I'd appreciate some feedback on this. Thanks!
Hi Elena,
Thanks for popping in to share your thoughts and use case as well.
I've submitted a feature request on your behalf.
I wanted to share some information about how we manage these feature requests as that may be helpful.
Hey Calvin,
You nailed it! You're correct that questions drawn from banks can be randomized, but you cannot randomize the "draw from question bank" slides themselves.
Let me know if you have any questions about that!
Whoops, I just answered in your other post too, Jane!
Question banks themselves can be randomized, but you can't randomize which question bank is used. Hope that helps clarify!
I think what you meant here was questions drawn from banks can be randomized... but not the question bank itself.
we found ourselves in this predicament as well. we have 10 question categories each in its own bank. but the order questions are presented is always 2 random questions from category 1, 2 from category 2, 2 from category 3 and so forth. there's no way to randomize the bank itself.
Hi Crystal,
Sorry for the ambiguity, my request/question was identical to the one expressed in the original post, and I was just checking to see if there has been a change since this post.
As you mentioned "Question bank draws can be randomized, but not choosing from which question bank the draw is made."- I'm just curious if is this still the case or has this feature been developed since then? Just checking :)
I have the same questions now! is this possible now?
Is there still no solution to this?
Hi there, Marilyn. Question bank draws can be randomized, but not choosing from which question bank the draw is made.
If the question banks can be randomized as well as the questions, would it be suitable to bring all of the questions into a "master" bank and just do random draws from the one bank? Hoping we can brainstorm on a way to get the same effect of any random questions being drawn!
I understand where there could be a need for this though.
You are welcome to share your thoughts with our product development team here.Hi, yes I am in the same situation where I need to have many question banks, because I need to test on each separate topics, but then I would like to be able to randomize the draws from the separate banks as well.
It is quite important, otherwise students will get that first question is on topic 1 and so forth, i.e. quite predictable.
Ok thank you. That's what I figured.
Hi Shelley!
If you are asking about randomly choosing a question bank, you would not be able to do so.
If you have multiple question banks, you can choose how many questions come from each bank though.
Check out this tutorial.
Is this feature available now?
Hello,
We don't have any new updates to share regarding this feature request but we'll leave a message here as soon as it makes it to our product roadmap!
