QuizQuestions API - Position

Hi Team,

In the Quiz Questions API (below link), I would like to use an option called Position.

Quiz Questions - Canvas LMS REST API Documentation

I tried to create a new question with position = 2 in an empty quiz using Postman. But, in the output body I noticed that the position is 1.

Can we set positions for the questions while creating them through API calls?

When I am creating various questions using a loop the order is being changed. So, I would like to arrange them in order using Position.

Thanks.

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pklove

I haven't tried this with quiz questions, but if its like other things in Canvas, you won't be able to give the question a position unless there are least that number of questions.

So when you added the question to the empty quiz, it could not have position 2 and was set to position 1 as there was only one question.

You will need to give the questions their position once you have added the lower ordered ones.

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