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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. See Using the Question Library for more information. 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.
elect Question Pool.
Enter a Question Pool Title, Number of Questions to Select and Points per Question.
Select Browse Question Library
Select from the existing questions in the Question Library
Select Add. The question pool will be saved to the quiz.

Shuffle Questions

Select More from the course navigation bar.
From the dropdown list, select Quizzes
Create a new quiz or select an existing quiz to edit.
In the Properties tab, 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

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Once questions have been added to a quiz, the quiz can be previewed. View Previewing Quizzes in D2L.