Drag items to categorie
September 8, 2009 12:00 AM
Unfortunately, this type of question design doesn't work well with the existing Lectora templates. I do have two workarounds I've used in the past.
1. Through graphic design, I've been able to set up a drag and drop where the student slides an item to one of two categories on a horizonal axis, so to speak. For each item to be dragged, there are two hot spots -- one right and one wrong. The whole page is set up with three columns. The drag items lined up on the left. And two columns of hot spots for each item -- category 1 and category two. Graphically, I put some sort of horizontal lines between each row (one drag item and its two possible hot spots), so that it is clear that the drag item would only go in one of those two spaces. This design, however, does not work with more than about 5 drag items and 3 categories.
2. Use a modified hot spot question. Create an image that is a table with your 4 categories as the columns. Then, add a text box that lists the 19 drag items. (I'd split it up into several screens, though, with that many. I'll use 6 items for the rest of the example.) Then, using the hot spot question wizard, place 24 check boxes on the graphic. One in each of the 4 columns for each of the 6 drag items. For each of the 6 rows, one of the check boxes would be correct and 3 would be wrong. Again, based on how the page was laid out graphically, it should be clear to the student that for each of the 6 items, they click the check box in the proper column.
I hope this is clear --it's hard to describe in words.
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