New Quizzes: Stopping the Random Order of Dropdown Question Options

I recently migrated a quiz created with the current version of Quizzes in Canvas with New Quizzes. Some of the questions on the quiz were multiple drop-down questions with multiple options for each drop-down entry. After some necessary reformatting I previewed the quiz in New Quizzes and to my amazement the options for the drop-down questions were presented in random order, even though I needed the options in the order I have the choices listed in Build section. Is there a way to stop the randomizing of these options for these questions?

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cstrikwerda

Hello @aaron_ayres and thanks for posting in the Community!

It seems we are looking into the ordering of answers in the multiple drop-down questions with multiple options for each drop-down entry, and seeing the options randomized in that list. When testing this with the same steps you were, I am not seeing my drop down lists randomized when migrated. I created a Classic Quiz and created a Multiple Drop Down question with ordered answers for those drop down menus. Then migrated to New Quizzes.

In my tests, my answers in my drop down menus were not reordered, so it seems the function should retain the order of the answers when migrating from Classic to New Quizzes. If you are seeing something otherwise, we would want to look at trying the migrate option again to see if they come across in the correct order.

If the order is not being retained this is something you could reach out to Canvas Support about and they would be glad to help make sure your questions answers are being ordered how you would like.

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Robbie_Grant

@aaron_ayres ,

First, I want to apologize for your question sitting in the community for so long without a response.

Second, it looks like you have stumped the Canvas Community. Were you able to find an answer to your question? I am going to go ahead and mark this question as answered because there hasn't been any more activity in a while, so I assume that you have the information that you need. If you still have a question about this or if you have information that you would like to share with the community, by all means, please do come back and leave a comment.

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MAJ18

@Robbie_Grant I am experiencing this as well. I am not sure there is workaround, but if somebody has one I would love to know.

sandman

I have this question as well. I have not selected "Randomize Answers" and yet the dropdown menu is always randomized. It is very frustrating when you are asking students to select from a sequential list when the sequence keeps changing. This seems like an easy fix to make.

unknown

Is there a solution to this issue? I am facing this issue as well and it is so frustrating.

cstrikwerda

Hello @aaron_ayres and thanks for posting in the Community!

unknown

Still randomizing the drop downs in the new quiz editor. Can not find anyway to fix even if the randomize answers button is turned off. Please fix.

Anya_

Not sure why this is marked as solved. The issue persists! I filed a support request, hopefully this will finally get acknowledged by Instructure as an issue.

paulamiranda

Hello, this issue has come up for one of our faculty, who would like to have the drop-down answer options in the same order that they are written. We've been told by Canvas Support that this is the expected behavior, and I understand that there are use cases where shuffling the order is needed. However, if it is the expected behavior, then why do these question types retain their order when the quizzes are migrated from Classic?

My suggested feature improvement here is to add a Shuffle Choices setting, like there is for Multiple Choice questions, to allow faculty flexibility in how they create their quizzes.

"Shuffle Choices" setting in a New Quizzes Multiple Choice question type

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