Drag and Drop doesn't work
May 30, 2008 12:00 AM
The drag-and-drop question type works fine for me in terms of working as it was designed to work. (This is with Lectora 2007...haven't created a d&d in 2008 yet.)However, I really wish that the drop area didn't have to be the same size as the drop image. I think that one of the best uses for d&d functionality is to create a sorting/categorizing "bucket" activity, where the specific order of the responses within each bucket is not relevant and where I'd like the learner to be able to see all of the placed answers.So, for example, I might have an activity with strips each containing the names of different types of animals ("monkey," "frog," "wombat," etc.) and the person has to sort the strips into categories of "Mammals," "Reptiles," and "Marsupials." I create a bucket for each category with blank strips the same size as the name strips (all strips are the same size, so they don't give the answer away to the learner). When the learner is done, I want them to be able to see all of the names they've placed in the blanks in the proper buckets.I've actually done an activity like this and had the results calculated manually through a very tedious set of conditions that test to make sure that none of the strips are in any of the spots they should be (example: "Question 0002 does not contain 2-4"), but I wish I could have just make a drop area the size of the whole bucket and a strip placed anywhere within that drop area would be evaluated the same way.I know that this explanation is kind of confusing...does anyone understand what I'm saying and, if so, don't you agree that this approach would be more useful than the current out-of-the-box one?
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