Scrambling gives every student a different version of your assessment — but sometimes you want certain questions to stay put. Pinning gives you control over exactly what gets scrambled and what does not.
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.
Pin a Question Group
Pinning a question group locks the group to a specific location in the assessment, ensuring the group will always appear at the same position across all versions.
Enable question scrambling. Click on the "Group" button to the left of the question group.
2. Enable the 'Pin at Question X' toggle.
A pin icon will appear next to the question group preamble to indicate that the group will remain in the same position across all versions.
💡 Questions within a pinned group will still scramble
Pinning the group locks its location, but the questions and answers within the group will still scramble amongst themselves. To lock the question order within the group, also enable 'Pin Group Order' (see below).
Pin Group Order
Pinning group order locks the sequence of questions within a group so the questions always appear in the same order across all versions.
Enable the 'Scramble Questions' toggle on the left-hand panel. Click the 'Group Options' button.
Enable the 'Pin Group Order' toggle.
Pin icons will appear next to each question to indicate that the questions within the group will not be scrambled.
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.
