(chiming in for @nparlante since it's early in the morning here): @mulby I think we care if the student can see the original order so that the instructors don't need to worry about what order they enter the problems in - e.g. if they want to always enter the right answer first (or last), that's ok - they won't need to worry about randomizing how they enter the order.  Sometimes instructors want to use a natural ordering such as listing numeric choices in increasing order, etc, but for problems where they want to shuffle, there presumably isn't a clear natural ordering they're wanting to use.