Creating multiple versions of your assessment helps maintain academic integrity and reduces opportunities for students to share answers. Akindi makes this easy with flexible scrambling options.
How to Enable Scrambling
1. Create Assessment and Import test questions.
💡 Visit the full Importing Questions Guide to learn how to import your questions into Akindi.
2. Choose to 'Scramble questions' and/or 'Scramble answers' by clicking the toggles on the left-hand tab.
💡 Keep related questions together during scrambling
Use Question Groups to keep related questions together during scrambling.
3. Select the desired number of 'versions' from the dropdown menu.
Akindi will automatically generates the desired number of versions.
4. Akindi will automatically generates the desired number of versions.
Preview the scramble mapping, by clicking 'Show Mapping'.
💡 Unscrambled Results
Akindi will automatically unscramble results to help you understand how questions performed across all versions. Learn more about the Overview tab and Responses tab.
Pin a Question
Pinning a question keeps a question in its 'original' position, preventing it from being reordered during scrambling. This is helpful to keep introductory questions at the top of the assessment, or bonus questions at the bottom of the assessment.
1. Enable 'Scramble Questions' toggle on left-hand panel.
2. Locate the question you want to pin.
Click the 'Change Marking' button on the left-hand tab.
3. Enable the 'Pin at Question X' toggle. A pin icon will appear next to the selected question to indicate that it will remain fixed during scrambling.
To unpin a question, disable the 'Pin at Question X' toggle. The pin icon will disappear.
Pin Answer Order
Pinning Answer Options keeps all answer choices within a question in their 'original' position. This is helpful when answer options are listed in a logical order (for example, from smallest to largest) or answers need to be in a specific position (for example 'both B and C').
1. Enable 'Scramble Answers' toggle on left-hand panel.
2. Locate the question containing the answer options you want to pin.
Click the 'Change Marking' button on the left-hand tab.
3. Enable the 'Pin answer order' toggle. A pin icon will appear next to all answer options within the question to indicate that they will remain fixed during scrambling.
To unpin answer options, disable the 'Pin answer order' toggle. The pin icons will disappear.
Smart Answer Pinning Detection
Akindi automatically protects certain answer options from scrambling to maintain question integrity:
"All of the above" / "All the above"
"None of the above"
True/False questions
When these answers are detected, you'll see a small pin icon next to them indicating they'll remain in their fixed position even when answer scrambling is enabled.
Keep Questions Together During Scrambling
💡 Question Groups
Use Question Groups to keep related questions together during scrambling.
Question Groups can be used for:
1) Case Study:
2) Chapter Grouping
3) Question Type: