Last week I heard from a Quizmaker’09 user who wanted to create a matching question. But the usual matching dropdown or matching drag-and-drop question types weren’t an option for her, because she needed learners to place several items into just two categories. (The matching questions in Quizmaker ’09 currently require a unique match for each item.)
So we worked out a different solution: since Quizmaker’s Slide View gives you all sorts of flexibility to rearrange stuff on your quiz slides (including answer choices), she ended up using a multiple-response question instead. How, you ask? Take a look:
Jeanette,
This is a nice technique. It is much less 'clunky' than having to set up a MC question for each of several items. Still, if the learner has one of the wrong, then the entire question is wrong and it can be frustrating for learners to try to figure out which one is off.
SORTING is often a good learning activity, and so far I've not been able to find an engage interaction that does this. My wish if to have a list of terms in the middle of the screen, and then the learner drags them to the L or the R column (or having 3 or 4 groups might be really useful in some situations). In my ideal world, the items "bounce back" to the orignial list if the learner attempts to drop them in the wrong category. Basically, instant feedback!
Do you (or anyone out there) know of su... Expand
Jeanette,
This is a nice technique. It is much less 'clunky' than having to set up a MC question for each of several items. Still, if the learner has one of the wrong, then the entire question is wrong and it can be frustrating for learners to try to figure out which one is off.
SORTING is often a good learning activity, and so far I've not been able to find an engage interaction that does this. My wish if to have a list of terms in the middle of the screen, and then the learner drags them to the L or the R column (or having 3 or 4 groups might be really useful in some situations). In my ideal world, the items "bounce back" to the orignial list if the learner attempts to drop them in the wrong category. Basically, instant feedback!
Do you (or anyone out there) know of such an interaction that I can use for my course?
Thanks,
Dan
Hi Dan, and welcome! I totally hear you on the sorting stuff. Multiple drop-spots and the bounce-back feature would be awesome. Though these aren't currently effects that you can achieve with Articulate Studio '09, I think you'll like what you see in our next generation of authoring tools. In the meantime, it never hurts to add your voice via a feature request, as our programming team uses these as an important tool in determining what's important to the user community: http://www.articulate.com/support/contact/feature/
Jeanette, I am using this format for a question in which the user needs to answer with a date. I made 9 'answer boxes' (3 choices each for the month, the day, and the year). How do I indicate what is the correct answer? It looks like I can only choose 1 correct answer and not 3 (month, day, year).
Hi Isa - that's true. With a multiple response question, the user needs to choose all items correctly (the correct month, correct day, and correct year) in order to get the question right. It's not possible to give partial credit or specify a different "correct" answer for each group of answer choices in a multiple-response. Perhaps using a series of multiple choice questions would work better for what you have in mind?
Actually, it is necessary for the user to choose all items correctly to get the questions right so I am fine with that. What I don't know is how to place 3 marks on each of the components of the correct answer (month, day, and year). I click on the first one and when I click the next one, the first one disappears.
The screencast in the blog post above shows the steps for creating a question like this. If you're not able to mark more than one correct item in your question, it's likely that your question is actually a multiple choice (which allows only one correct answer) instead of a multiple response (which has multiple correct answers). Here's a sample you can download and look at: http://cl.ly/0z3L443j223Q2c3L1j1z Hope that helps! :)
Jeanette the solution you provided to "Build Your Own Sorting Question" is not visible. Can you check it out or atleast send me the steps for the solution.
Hi Michael! Do you mean the screencast video in the blog post isn't visible to you? Hmm, not sure why it wouldn't be appearing for you; you could try viewing it directly at Screenr: http://www.screenr.com/yAp or maybe try using a different browser? If you are viewing on a computer (vs a mobile device), you'll need the Adobe Flash Player in order to see the video.
Jeanette, thank you very much for this. I was using the Linkert scale to make this kind of sorting question, but using the multiple response question works so much better. I can control more of the elements.
just a little problem here... you cannot put on the same row two or more choice that are incompatible (i.e. TRUE/FALSE) but just choices that "could" have meaning if selected all, while usually it should be correct to have a "radio button" group on each row to deselect a choice each time you select another one in the same row.
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Jeanette, This is a nice technique. It is much less 'clunky' than having to set up a MC question for each of several items. Still, if the learner has one of the wrong, then the entire question is wrong and it can be frustrating for learners to try to figure out which one is off. SORTING is often a good learning activity, and so far I've not been able to find an engage interaction that does this. My wish if to have a list of terms in the middle of the screen, and then the learner drags them to the L or the R column (or having 3 or 4 groups might be really useful in some situations). In my ideal world, the items "bounce back" to the orignial list if the learner attempts to drop them in the wrong category. Basically, instant feedback! Do you (or anyone out there) know of su... Expand