Fixing the position of an individual responseoption within an MCQ question while shuffling the remainder.

Fixing the position of an individual responseoption within an MCQ question while shuffling the remainder.

by Declan Maher -
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Hi all, 

Moodle Version 3

Issue:  I wish to invoke "shuffle" for response options within an an MCQ question BUT  I also wish to fix the position of one of the response options (e.g. I have five options listed but I wish to keep option two at position two while all others shuffle)

I note that in edX (see screen shot below)  this can be achieved easily using fixed="true"

Is there any code available within  Moodle XML that would perform a similar function?  

edX code to fix position of a single option among shuffled options

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In reply to Declan Maher

Re: Fixing the position of an individual responseoption within an MCQ question while shuffling the remainder.

by Tim Hunt -
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Moodle can't do this, and there don't seem to be any plugins to support it. (It would not be that hard to make one.)

Please be aware that, although rather common, "All of the above" is generally a bad idea in multiple choice questions, and "None of the above" has to be used very carefully. See, for example http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00220973.2013.795127?journalCode=vjxe20, http://pareonline.net/getvn.asp?v=4&n=11 (points 7 and 8) etc. You can say something like "None of the other options" to have something shuffle-proof, but it is unnatural.