Randomised Testing

Before reading this guide, you should be comfortable with creating and deploying tests in Yorkshare: consult the ELDT Guide "Creating Tests in a Nutshell".

It is possible to display an entire test in random order using the Randomize Questions test setting. This guide describes the separate process of creating of a randomised Question Set.

Tip

Description and Instruction fields both appear to instructors when using the pool, but never to students. They are functionally identical.

A Question Set is used to display one randomly selected question from a larger pre-defined collection of questions to students. This question is randomly selected each time the test is viewed.

This is a two-step process: you first create a question Pool , then create a Question Set.

Creating a Pool of Questions

To create a pool:

• Expand the Control Panel item Course Tools, and select Tests, Surveys and Pools.
• Click [Build Pool].
• Enter a Name (and, if desired, Description) for your course.

Tip

For help on question types, consult the ELDT Guide: Question Types in a Nutshell.

• Click [Submit].
• Using the [Create Question] menu, insert questions into your pool.
• Click [OK] to save the test pool when you have finished adding questions.

Deploying the Question Pool in Your Test

The following steps take place from within the Edit Test screen. They can be completed when your test is created, or later when editing the test:

• Open the [Reuse Question] menu, and select Create Question Set.

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You can also add questions from other tests or pools to a Question Set.

• Expand the Pools criteria.
• Tick the checkbox next to the pool you have just created. Its questions will appear in a panel to the right.
• Click [Show All] and tick the checkbox in the table header to select all the questions from the pool.
• Click [Submit].
• By default, the set will display only one question, randomly selected from the pool you created in the previous step. You can select more by editing the Number of Questions to display textbox and clicking [Submit].
• Click [OK] once you have finished editing your test.