{"id":23797,"date":"2023-07-28T12:57:41","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T12:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ltsadev.sheridanc.on.ca\/apps\/wordpress\/learning-and-technology-portal\/?p=23797"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:16:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:16:03","slug":"randomizing-questions-in-the-question-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ltsa.sheridancollege.ca\/digital-learning-support-hub\/randomizing-questions-in-the-question-pool\/","title":{"rendered":"Randomizing Questions in the Question Pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>To randomize quiz questions in SLATE, you must create a Question Pool. A Question Pool pulls a set number of unique questions from a designated pool and randomly distributes them to each user.<\/h4>\n<p>Before you create the question pool, make sure you&#8217;ve entered all your questions into the question library. When you create the question pool in the quiz, it will pull questions from the library to build the pool.<\/p>\n<p>First<span style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ltsa.sheridancollege.ca\/digital-learning-support-hub\/create-a-quiz-new-experience\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>create<\/strong><\/a><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ltsa.sheridancollege.ca\/digital-learning-support-hub\/create-a-quiz-new-experience\/\"><strong> your quiz<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Click <strong>Add Edit\/Questions<\/strong>, then follow these directions.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Click New &gt; Question Pool<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Enter a <strong>Question Pool Title<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Click<strong> Browse the Question library<\/strong>. Find the questions you want to include in the question pool by clicking the radio button and then choosing <strong>Add<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"clear: both\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25202\" src=\"https:\/\/ltsa.sheridancollege.ca\/digital-learning-support-hub\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2023\/07\/randomizing-quizzes.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ltsa.sheridancollege.ca\/digital-learning-support-hub\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2023\/07\/randomizing-quizzes.png 768w, https:\/\/ltsa.sheridancollege.ca\/digital-learning-support-hub\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2023\/07\/randomizing-quizzes-300x174.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>After you add the questions, you will be taken back to your main screen.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Choose the number of questions<\/strong> you want to be pulled from your Question Pool.<\/li>\n<li>Add the <strong>number of points<\/strong> that will be awarded per question.<\/li>\n<li>Click <strong>Save<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"clear: both\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25203\" src=\"https:\/\/ltsa.sheridancollege.ca\/digital-learning-support-hub\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2023\/07\/randomizing-quizzes2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"621\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ltsa.sheridancollege.ca\/digital-learning-support-hub\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2023\/07\/randomizing-quizzes2.png 621w, https:\/\/ltsa.sheridancollege.ca\/digital-learning-support-hub\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2023\/07\/randomizing-quizzes2-300x224.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 621px) 100vw, 621px\" \/><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>The Question Pool will now be added to your quiz, and you can choose to add another question pool or click <strong>Done Editing Questions.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Once you have added all your questions, you can continue<strong>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To randomize quiz questions in SLATE, you must create a Question Pool. A Question Pool pulls a set number of unique questions from a designated pool and randomly distributes them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":122},"categories":[25],"tags":[202,207,133,135,204],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ltsa.sheridancollege.ca\/digital-learning-support-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23797"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ltsa.sheridancollege.ca\/digital-learning-support-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ltsa.sheridancollege.ca\/digital-learning-support-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ltsa.sheridancollege.ca\/digital-learning-support-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ltsa.sheridancollege.ca\/digital-learning-support-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23797"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ltsa.sheridancollege.ca\/digital-learning-support-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27650,"href":"https:\/\/ltsa.sheridancollege.ca\/digital-learning-support-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23797\/revisions\/27650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ltsa.sheridancollege.ca\/digital-learning-support-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ltsa.sheridancollege.ca\/digital-learning-support-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ltsa.sheridancollege.ca\/digital-learning-support-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ltsa.sheridancollege.ca\/digital-learning-support-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}