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Storyline 360 Question Bank Shuffle
How are your Question Bank skills?
I have a question bank consisting of 29 questions.
The quiz I am using consists of 17 total question slides including the introduction slide.
9 of the questions must always be included and are identified in the shuffle column with Always (always include).
8 are randomly selected from the remaining 20 question slides each time the quiz is taken.
Here is my question/conundrum, The 9 questions that are required to be included each time the quiz is taken, do not shuffle. They appear in the same order each time the quiz is run even though they are included in the Shuffle column.
Is there a way to make those required slides shuffle?
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Hello David-Hovard,
What you’re seeing lines up with how question banks are designed to work in Storyline.
When a question is set to “Always include,” it ensures that the question is consistently part of the draw. However, those questions don’t behave the same way as ones set to “Randomly” when it comes to shuffling.
In practice, this means the “Always” questions will appear each time, but typically in a consistent order, while only the “Randomly” questions are shuffled.
If you’d like those required questions to vary in order, one option is to place them in a separate question bank and draw them randomly from that bank. That way, you can still guarantee how many are included while allowing them to shuffle.
It’s a bit subtle in the setup, so it’s an easy one to question, but you’re definitely on the right track with how you’ve configured things.
