Pooling Questions

You can set questions to be pooled together, such that students will get one of this bundle on their assignment–this helps ensure that each student receives a personalized exam and minimize cheating.

If you would like to pool questions together, add a question as you would to an assignment, and then click on it in the assignment. The steps are very similar between code environments, even if they look a little different. At the top is the older code base, at the bottom is the newer code base.

(classic) Scrolling to the bottom offers a 'question pooling' section; click the green + on the right to expand and add questions to this pool.

Clicking add will take you back to a search page to find more questions you'd like to pool with this one! Be sure to click the 'display these questions at random' to ensure that students get one problem chosen at random on their assignment.

On the assignment page pooled questions will appear as multiple IDs stacked for a given question line:

(new) Click on the pooling tab and add pooled item as you would add a question.

Both items will display on your assignment page:

Of note: items with a different number of parts cannot be pooled (ie if the original is a single part question and you want to add a question that is a three part-er, the three part question won't show up when searching for questions to pool).

Newer code base (coming summer 2021)

The steps are very similar, if it looks a little bit different.

Within an assignment, click on the question you want to pool items into.

Click on the pooling tab, then click 'add pooled item':

Conduct a search to find questions you want to pool, and add them using the + sign to the right of the resulting question.

You will receive confirmation in the upper right hand corner, even thought the question will not show in the lower right quadrant (where the original question is displayed).

When you return to the assignment (by clicking the assignment title in the dark blue header at the top), you'll notice that the pooled items are displayed underneath the original question. One of these questions will be pulled at random to be shown to different students.