[LON-CAPA-users] Random seed question

[John Merrill]

Thanks Mark!
So, a new randomization is one thing, and I could tolerate any  
duplication from one page to the next. But even better would be if I  
could force only unused foils/concepts into instance 2, and so on. Is  
this possible?
John

On Oct 21, 2004, at 10:30 PM, lucasm@ohiou.edu wrote:

> John,
>
> My understanding is that each version of the problem should have a
> different random seed. Each time a problem is inserted into the  
> sequence,
> it has a unique "ID" in that sequence. This ID is used with other
> information to create the random seed.
>
> Mark
>
>
>  On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, John Merrill wrote:
>
>> If I put the exact same problem into a sequence twice (or more) does
>> the random seed change each time for a student so that they see a
>> different set of foils on the second instance? The basis for the
>> question is, I've written a killer question with 8 concept groups,  
>> each
>> with 3-5 foils, but I want the students to exercise on them without
>> putting too many foils per page (4 max?), yet see most or all of the
>> concept groups by having them see the problem multiple times.
>> John
>>
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