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Randomly chose a number of questions for a quiz from a pool of questions

I would like to create a pool of questions and Microsoft Forms should randomly chose a number of questions from this pool for a quiz.
So if I need a quick test for my students I could just tell Microsoft Forms to take 10 questions from a certain pool randomly.

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  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please add this option, as need to have this ability to really utilise the functions of M365 Forms

  • Nick McAndrew commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please allow Forms to randomly draw a specified number of quiz questions from a question bank. I administer exams through Forms and not having a question bank severely limits what I can do with this program.

  • WesL commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This needs to happen, please. I have run into this time and time again and the need is growing with the work from home culture. As a corporate client we this functionality yesterday and we are investing money in outside platforms that do this for us.

  • JoBe commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I am looking forward to using this feature. Hopefully this will be taken care of soon.

  • Daniel commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes! This. Please! I would do ALL my testing in forms if this was the case!
    Retakes, anti-cheating, all of it would be bolstered by this. Simple!

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    We've used forms to test students - absolutely garbage. Without random questions&answers students will always cooperate.

  • Elmer Tapat commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Very important feature.

    Would be very nice as well to have the following additional features:
    1) the choices (A, B, C, D) are randomly arranged
    2) Option to add time limit (minutes or seconds) per question.

  • Neil Hornus commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is definitely needed - would allow for far more variety in testing and assessments for students.

  • Altan E. commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is a must to perform quiz and exams in Forms. But indeed there is a complicated way to choose questions in Forms in a "pseudo-random" way using branching options. You can use an identification for the students such as student ID before the questions. For example in the first question you can ask students to mark the first digit of their student ID and then add branching to each answer, so that each digit may lead to a different question. Then you can ask another digit (or maybe first letter of the names) where each choice is branched to different questions. You may continue in this way for all questions.

    This is a very complicated and cumbersome way, and you must be very careful about branching options. Also you need to put all questions in a single form.

    It took lots of time to arrange everything correctly, but I managed to do an exam of 15 questions with 3 or 4 versions of each.

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