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Is there a way to randomize short answer responses in summary report?

  • September 16, 2025
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I was noticing in my summary report that all the answers to questions I left as short or long, open-ended answers, the responses were all in order of completion time. That is, the first person who completed the quiz, their answers, for all open-ended question responses, are always listed at the bottom, or the first answer. The same for the second person to complete the survey, their answers would be listed second.

The issue I’m having is I’m wanting to try to make sure all the answers for those open-ended questions are less obvious by each separate user by those reviewing the end report. For example, I would like if the sixth (6th) person who completes the quiz and submits short/open answer responses, their third open ended question shows their result/response as the first listing, and the fourth open ended question they answer might show up as the eighth opened answer, and perhaps the fifth opened ended question by the that same sixth (6th) person to compete the survey might show up as the third result in the list. This would help dissociate each responders answers from their other answers in the survey. 

I realize this is probably a less common use case for this tool and website, but… in order to maintain the privacy and anonymity of people responding, this would be a greatly helpful tool. Is there any way this can be done currently? If not, could it be implemented in the report generation?

Thank you for your time! 

Best answer by Grace

Hey ​@TestingReports welcome to the community 😊

This is a really interesting point, I can understand how being able to randomize results would be useful, especially if you need to make results anonymous. It’s not currently possible, but I’ve added it to our feature request board.

@Sun.Park ​@PolBorrellas thought you both might be interested in this one 😉

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  • September 16, 2025

Hey ​@TestingReports welcome to the community 😊

This is a really interesting point, I can understand how being able to randomize results would be useful, especially if you need to make results anonymous. It’s not currently possible, but I’ve added it to our feature request board.

@Sun.Park ​@PolBorrellas thought you both might be interested in this one 😉