It is possible to assemble an exam by randomly selecting questions from specific tags or categories.
It is possible to create a question bank and have the system randomly select a number of questions for each test. The basics of this functionality are explained in this article. In addition to this basic randomization setting, you can also specify the number of questions to select per category!
You need to tag your questions with categories for this to work. If you haven't set these up and tagged your questions, please check out how to do it here.
Next, you can set the rules for the number of questions to select from each category.
Go to Exams > Exam title > Behavior. Scroll down to Question order, and select Categorical: Select by category:
Then, set the number of questions per category.
You will find an overview of the available questions per category, and you can enter the number of questions to be picked at random from each of those.
You can also choose to use a number of questions without categories for your exam.
If you have questions tagged with multiple categories, please note the following. Our system will select questions that are tagged with multiple categories only once to avoid duplication. This means your exam may generate fewer questions than you originally selected.
4. Choose the order of the questions
For the question order, you can present the questions in the order of the listed categories (which you can drag and drop), or let the system randomize the selected questions.