I am in the process of making my online final exams. One concern is how do we best maintain academic integrity while still providing a good exam. One way is the use of randomization of the question order and of the response order. This is a great approach; however, I wonder how can I have multiple questions on the same topic? For instance, if I provide a reading and have multiple questions about that reading. Brightspace allows for the creation of Categories.

Categories can be thought of as subsections on the exam. You can then place a series of related questions into the category. Randomization is then done WITHIN the catgory and the order of the categories are shuffled. This allows you to shuffle questions but retain some order.

One other attempt at minimizing abuse is to have one question per page and to not allow students to go back to questions. If I have a passage to read (or a graph to interpret) with multiple questions, how can I do one question per page? The only thing I can think of right now is to copy/paste the passage/graph onto each question text. This is because the Category text only appears for the first question in the category.