IMPORTANT: The Surveys module has been moved to the Maintenance stage of the product lifecycle. As such, it is not available to new customers.
Current users can continue to use it, and Higher Logic commits to the conditions of the lifecycle stage as detailed in Higher Logic's Product Life Cycle and Support Assurance Plan.
Your surveys can present answers and questions to respondents in a random order. You can choose to randomize the order of answers within a question, questions within the survey, both, or neither.
In the interface, this is referred to as "randomization," which means the ability to put questions/answers in random order. All respondents will still be presented with all questions.
Randomize survey answers
To randomize answers for a question:
- When editing a survey, click the Edit button for the question.
- Under Row Options, check the box Click here to randomize the order of answers.
- In the new column that appears, Select to Randomize, check the answers you would like randomized.
- Unchecked answers retain their current position.
Randomize survey questions
To randomize questions when editing a survey:
- Go to Survey Properties and open the Randomize Questions section.
- Check Click here to randomize questions.
- This opens a dialog with randomization options.
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Select whether to randomize questions across all pages or within the original page.
- Across all pages will move questions between different pages.
- Within original page will keep the same questions on the same page, but randomize them.
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Select which questions you would like to randomize.
- Unchecked questions retain their current position.
- Click Submit when you are done.
- To edit your randomization options, click the same checkbox under Randomize Questions.
- There will now be a new checkbox at the top to turn off randomization.
- If randomization is turned on for questions, a Randomize Question section will be available when you edit the question.
- Check or uncheck the box in this section to turn randomization on or off.