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In this article, we explain the Ordering question type.
This question type requires candidates to arrange a set of items into the correct sequence. Items are presented in an initial order, and candidates must reorder them to reflect the correct process, chronology, or hierarchy, making this format suitable for evaluating understanding of ordered relationships or step-based concepts.
Manually Creating an Ordering question
An ordering question requires candidates to arrange a set of items in the correct sequence. This type of question is useful for assessing understanding of processes, chronological events, or hierarchical relationships.
Key Behavior in the Application:
- If a candidate moves to the next question without changing the initially presented order, the system will consider the question answered.
- The candidate will receive a warning message indicating that the current order will be recorded as their answer.
To manually create an ordering question, follow the steps below:
- Access the desired question pool to which you would like to add the ordering question and navigate to the Questions tab.
- Click the Add Question button and select the Ordering question type.
In the Create New Question dialog:
- Enter the question text.
- Click the three dots menu to add question feedback, attachments, or formulas.
- Click the “Add Answer” button to add the items that the candidate should order. By default, the order in which the answers are added will be considered correct. You can adjust the correct order using the drop-down menu to select the desired numerical or ordinal sequence.
- Click the bin icon to remove any items if needed.
- Set the question parameters, including points, penalties, difficulty level, and duration.
- Click the “Add to Pool” button to save the question.
Ordering question advanced Settings
To access the question’s advanced settings, enable the “Show More Settings” option.
In the question’s advanced settings, you can define:
Grading and duration settings
- Scoring Method: Select the scoring method, which can be defined by correct/incorrect answers or manual grading. Please refer to this article for more details.
- Points and Penalties: Enter the number of points awarded to the candidate for a correct answer and the number of points deducted for an incorrect answer. Please note that this is not applicable when the scoring method is by answer weight.
- Duration: Enter the time that should be allocated for answering the question. The defined duration will be considered only when the exam duration is set by question duration.
Advanced question setup
- Tags: Add a question tag.
- Common External ID: Enter the question’s external ID to cross-reference with the external system, if any.
- Difficulty and Frequency: Define the difficulty level of the question as easy, medium, or hard, and specify its frequency as normal, always, rare, or never. This will determine how often the question is used by the generator when creating exams. This setting will only take effect if the “Include Frequency Factor” option is enabled during test creation.
Question categories
Additional attachments
Upload additional supporting files or resources for the question. Please refer to this article for more details.
Translations
Add translations for multilingual exams. You can manually translate the question or use the Auto-translate feature. Please refer to this article for more details.
Assistance
You can provide hints, offer additional time, or remove one incorrect answer to assist the candidate in answering this question.
Candidate’s perspective
The candidate needs to drag and drop the provided answers to arrange them in the correct order.
