How to randomize questions that consist of a Likert scale plus audio file?

Question

The goal of our questionnaire is to let participants rate audio files on five-point Likert scale. In the "Questionnaire" submenu, we managed to (manually) create the question pages with the audio files and Likert scale. However, we´d like to present those questions in a randomized order. Through following the instructions on the SoScie webpage, however, it seems this is only possible in the "Questions menu". In this manual it seems we cannot upload audio files.

Is there a way to present questions consisting of a Likert scale + audio in a randomized order, and if so, what is that way?

Comments

How many audio files + scale are we talking about?

Do you want each audio file on a separate page, or all players one below the other?

Did you put multiple Likert items into one scale question, or did youc reate multiple scale questions?

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- The questionnaire would have 3 practice items, and 90 target items, which sums up to 93 items.
- We´d prefer to have each single audio + Likert scale combination on a seperate page.
- We created one scale question (question: "How foreign does this speaker sound?", scale with 1 (very foreign) until 5 (not foreign at all) that should appear with each audio file.

Answer 1

The questionnaire would have 3 practice items, and 90 target items, which sums up to 93 items.

Okay, definitely a job for loopPage() :)

I would recommend to use a random generator (in the example RG01) to rotate the 90 items, and - in the PHP code - an Array to store the file names, e.g.,

$files = [
  1 => 'stimulus1a.mp3',
  2 => 'stimulius1b.mp3',
  // ...
];

Then you need a scale question with 90 items, let's say AB01. And a text (TX01 here) with the HTML code to display the audio player, and a placeholder %file% for the filename.

The rest is quite simple:

$rotation = array_values('RG01');
$i = loopPage($rotation);
show('TX01', ['%file%' => $files[$i]]);
question('AB01', $i);