Randomisation for participants to complete one section or another whilst still completing the rest of the questionnaire

Question

Hi there,

I have created my questionnaire with 7 sections. Section 4 and Section 5 are the main bodies but I would like the questionnaire to randomly assign some participants to complete section 4 and some to complete section 5, still making sure all other sections are completed.

I am not confident with coding and scared to change as it says at the top: "Do not change the internal code unless you exactly know what you are doing! All changes are usually made in the tab Questionnaire Pages"

Does anyone have any advice please?

Thank you :)

Answer 1

Hi!

Yes, you can randomise the order in which the pages are shown. You will need some coding, but it's not very hard, I promise. What you will need is a random number generator question and the code you can find on the wiki site for Randomzation of Pages. You'll only have to put the PHP code on the bottom of your first page (if you want to put in directly what all possible page orders are from the beginning) and swap around the variable names for your random number generator and the page names. Depending on which number the generator returns, it'll then set the page order to the corresponding path you decided.

Hope that helps!