From ec9799ad892215b9bdc653443786feb6988109d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard Tibbles <richard@learningequality.org>
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2025 15:55:12 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] When creating exercises, default randomize to true as data.
 Remove UI only default.

---
 .../frontend/channelEdit/components/edit/DetailsTabView.vue   | 2 +-
 .../frontend/channelEdit/vuex/contentNode/actions.js          | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/contentcuration/contentcuration/frontend/channelEdit/components/edit/DetailsTabView.vue b/contentcuration/contentcuration/frontend/channelEdit/components/edit/DetailsTabView.vue
index cceab440aa..3002797c94 100644
--- a/contentcuration/contentcuration/frontend/channelEdit/components/edit/DetailsTabView.vue
+++ b/contentcuration/contentcuration/frontend/channelEdit/components/edit/DetailsTabView.vue
@@ -694,7 +694,7 @@
       /* FORM FIELDS */
       title: generateGetterSetter('title'),
       description: generateGetterSetter('description'),
-      randomizeOrder: generateExtraFieldsGetterSetter('randomize', true),
+      randomizeOrder: generateExtraFieldsGetterSetter('randomize'),
       author: generateGetterSetter('author'),
       provider: generateGetterSetter('provider'),
       aggregator: generateGetterSetter('aggregator'),
diff --git a/contentcuration/contentcuration/frontend/channelEdit/vuex/contentNode/actions.js b/contentcuration/contentcuration/frontend/channelEdit/vuex/contentNode/actions.js
index 66d368a51d..d2b13575fc 100644
--- a/contentcuration/contentcuration/frontend/channelEdit/vuex/contentNode/actions.js
+++ b/contentcuration/contentcuration/frontend/channelEdit/vuex/contentNode/actions.js
@@ -220,6 +220,10 @@ export function createContentNode(context, { parent, kind, ...payload }) {
     ...payload,
   };
 
+  if (kind === ContentKindsNames.EXERCISE) {
+    contentNodeData.extra_fields.randomize = true;
+  }
+
   contentNodeData.complete = isNodeComplete({
     nodeDetails: contentNodeData,
     assessmentItems: [],