Question Pools are a powerful feature which can bring complexity and variety to your courses. Here's our best practice guidance to help you become confident in setting them and helps you get the most out of using them.
Resetting question pools
The default behaviour for question pools is that once your learner has submitted their score by reaching the last page of the module the question pages that have been randomly selected will reshuffle.
For instance, I have a module setup with 4 questions, a, b, c, and d. My pool is configured so I can only see two of those questions and I am using the default behaviour of question pools where they re-shuffle on the final score being sent.
If my learner views the module and sees questions a and c on first attempt, they then submit their score by reaching the last page of the module, but then go back to attempt the module again, they will now see a different set of questions, perhaps b …and… c, or a …and… d, any manner of random combinations!
This behaviour means that the learner will be asked different questions on re-attempting the module.
You can turn off this behaviour by pressing 'Configure', 'Scoring' and de-selecting this option:
….doing this will mean that once the question pages for the question pool have been selected they will not change.
Here's a detailed flow diagram of how the logic for this feature works:
Question pools reshuffling on course open
Please note that if a learner exits a course which has Question Pools and then re-opens the course, the Question Pool will re-shuffle, the users score will also reflect the score they had previously attained for the reshuffled questions.
For example, if I have a pool with 10 questions that is set to display 50% of the pages and my learner leaves the course, then re-opens it the score will change according to which questions have been randomly selected.
Here is a diagram to illustrate how this works:
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