moodlepeers / moodle-mod_groupformation

Formation of optimized learning groups - by topic preference or best match of individuals' characteristics and preferences; in one easy to use Moodle acticity
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Randomize order of questionaire items #12

Closed jkonert closed 8 years ago

jkonert commented 8 years ago

When displaying the questionnaire for users, randomize the order of questions based on a user-oriented salt. It is umportant that the user always sees his/her questions in the same order (in all groupformations). The user-id could be a good salt for the randomizer. The teacher could/should see the questionaaire in different random orders, e.g. salt based on the hour of the day or minutes. Using modulo 4 (%4) results in four different versions only for the teacher.

Why? Because a fixed order of questions for all users could lead to an effect of the order in answering the questions.