Sometimes you need to randomize the order of questions in a block. With Question Randomization, you can do more than that.
- Display all the questions in a random order.
- Display a set number of questions from a larger group.
- Lock certain questions in a specific position.
Step-By-Step
Set up Question Randomization
In order to set up Question Randomization, all of the questions you’d like to have randomized need to appear in the same block of questions.
- Click Block Options on the question block in the top-right corner.
- Select Question Randomization.
- When the window appears, select the type of randomization you would like to use:
- No Randomization: Does not randomize your questions.
- Randomize the order of all questions: Randomly presents all of the questions in the block.
- Present only (a subset) of the total questions: Allows you to specify the number of choices (out of the total) to have randomly displayed in the survey (2 of 4, 3 of 7, etc.).
- Advanced Randomization: Allows for more randomization options. Move choices in or out of randomization options using the left/right arrow buttons, then be sure to click the Save button.
- Fixed Display Order: Shows the fixed questions in the block and where the randomized subsets fall in the order of questions.
- Randomize Choices: Randomizes the order of all questions moved into the Randomize Choices box.
- Randomize Subset: Specify a number of questions to randomly choose and display (2 of 4, 3 of 7, etc.).
- Undisplayed Items: Specify certain questions you don’t want displayed at all.
- You additionally have the ability to select the number of questions you’d like to have displayed on each page, overriding the page breaks in this block.
- Click the Close button once you’ve made your selection.
More Information
Qtips
- You can view the order in which your questions were displayed by selecting the Export Randomized View Order data option in Download Options in the View Results tab . The display order will appear in the last column of your data file and will be separated by a bar “|” if multiple questions were seen.