Using Drag-and-Drop in E-Learning #468: Challenge | Recap
If there’s one e-learning interaction that belongs in every instructional designer’s toolkit, it’s drag-and-drops.
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I'm curious: Can drag activities be done without a drop? I have a fire safety course and wanted to do an activity with moving a fire extinguisher into position. I want the extinguisher to be able to be drug around the screen, but there isn't necessarily a "correct" drop target.
- You can add a hotspot to the entire screen, or maybe a series of hotspots so that when you drag-over them, you could have different animations start or stop (like flames burning or going out)
I've also seen some Heroes having success changing the mouse into a fire-extinguisher or other object. I think this may require some JavaScript Code. - Hello Jeni. You've answered your own question. "Can we do drag activities without drop?" Yes. In a free-form drag & drop, simply don't assign a drop zone to your object (fire extinguisher). You can then move the object anywhere without constraint. The advantage is that you can't move it "outside" the limits of the slide and lose it (try it!): it's automatically moved back within the limits. Next, use Ron's suggestion: hotspots to provoke reactions depending on the object's position.
