Shuffling some questions but not others?

In new quizzes, I know you can shuffle the questions throughout the quiz as well as the choices within each question. However, is there a way that you can set only certain questions to shuffle around the quiz and have other questions remain in a certain order? Sometimes it makes sense for some questions to stay in order to build off of one another, but not always.

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mzimmerman

Hi @JSchaefer33

In order to have a group of questions that are randomly sorted in New Quizzes, I believe that you need to be pulling the questions from an item bank. When you do that, the questions are displayed in random order.

For instructions, see How do I add all items or a random set from an item bank...

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