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:Hi Chris, thanks for all your comments, which often make me smile :-) --[[User:Helen Foster|Helen Foster]] 03:19, 24 September 2007 (CDT) | :Hi Chris, thanks for all your comments, which often make me smile :-) --[[User:Helen Foster|Helen Foster]] 03:19, 24 September 2007 (CDT) | ||
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This page states that the instructor can choose whether or not answers in drop-down menus should be shuffled or not. Slightly later in the page it is definitively stated that answers will always be shuffled. Which is correct? | This page states that the instructor can choose whether or not answers in drop-down menus should be shuffled or not. Slightly later in the page it is definitively stated that answers will always be shuffled. Which is correct? | ||
I believe the latter is true, since the "Shuffle" checkbox's inline help says "If you set this option to "Yes", then the order of the subquestions is randomly shuffled each time a student starts an attempt at a quiz containing this question - provided that "Shuffle within questions" in the Quiz settings is set to "Yes"." This has also been my experience - the 'Shuffle' checkbox shuffles the subquestions, but exerts no influence over the answer list, which is always randomly shuffled. | I believe the latter is true, since the "Shuffle" checkbox's inline help says "If you set this option to "Yes", then the order of the subquestions is randomly shuffled each time a student starts an attempt at a quiz containing this question - provided that "Shuffle within questions" in the Quiz settings is set to "Yes"." This has also been my experience - the 'Shuffle' checkbox shuffles the subquestions, but exerts no influence over the answer list, which is always randomly shuffled. | ||
--[[User:Caroline Moore|Caroline Moore]] 9:30am EST 2011-10-21 | |||
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Been playing in demo.Moodle.org. Ah....I think we need some examples for the newbie like me.
Once I answered a matching question of my design as a student, dawn started to break over Marblehead, and I deleted my previous comments --Chris collman 11:25, 19 September 2007 (CDT)
- Hi Chris, thanks for all your comments, which often make me smile :-) --Helen Foster 03:19, 24 September 2007 (CDT)
This page states that the instructor can choose whether or not answers in drop-down menus should be shuffled or not. Slightly later in the page it is definitively stated that answers will always be shuffled. Which is correct?
I believe the latter is true, since the "Shuffle" checkbox's inline help says "If you set this option to "Yes", then the order of the subquestions is randomly shuffled each time a student starts an attempt at a quiz containing this question - provided that "Shuffle within questions" in the Quiz settings is set to "Yes"." This has also been my experience - the 'Shuffle' checkbox shuffles the subquestions, but exerts no influence over the answer list, which is always randomly shuffled.
--Caroline Moore 9:30am EST 2011-10-21
