Set the appearance and behavior of Rank Order Sort questions.
Order of items
This property has the following options:
- As Authored: all participants see the items in the order that they were created.
- Randomize: each participant sees a random order of items.
- Rotate: each time the question is displayed to participants, the items are rotated one position up.
Example
The following images illustrate how randomization works with a rank order sort question. The answers are randomly arranged each time the question is shown to a new participant.
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Example
The following images illustrate how rotation works with a rank order sort question. The answers rotate left one position each time the question is presented to a new participant.
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Number of ranks
This property determines the number of ranks that participants can use. Enter the number of ranks that you want your question to have.
If there are three ranks and five answers, the participant can only rank three answers. If you leave this field blank, there will be as many ranks as there are answers.
Position in Block
Under Position in block, select Fixed to maintain the question's current sequential position, or select Use block settings if the question is part of a block that randomizes or rotates questions.
For more information about other question properties, see Question properties.