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Multiple Drag Placement Drop Zones
Hi everyone,
I have been asked if I can produce a drag and drop question that allows for one or more drag items to be placed into one or more drop zones to equal correct.
This is easily done if, for example the question stem is written in a way to allow for a dual drag item e.g.:
Which colours are associated with Summer and Autumn?
Blue and Green
Green and Gold
Red and Green
Blue and Brown
But if the question has to be written in the singular, although this looks straight forward enough, is there a way to achieve this without achieving an incorrect answer if, for example, the student places the first correct colour into another drop zone? e.g. the answer here is:
Summer = Blue | Brown | Green
Autumn = Blue | Brown | Gold
and the student places the first Summer 'Brown' or 'Blue' into the Autumn 'Brown' or 'Blue' zone, is there a work around to allow for this? (Singular example below
Place the associated colours next to the seasons.
Drop zone 1: Summer Drop zone 2: Autumn
Drag items: Blue | Brown | Red | Green | Gold | Blue | Brown | Red | Green| Gold
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You would probably need to change it and use an offside pick one question that is validated based on drop states rather than a freeform drag and drop question
Thanks for responding Phil. Can you elaborate on this please as I'm not exactly sure what you mean. Thanks.
The built in question does not allow multiple correct drop targets. So to get round this I would remove the freeform and add a pick one freeform, I would add two objects for the freeform and move them off slide.
Then add dropped on triggers for the objects to change the states to drop correct when in the correct place. You can then change the state of the pick one objects off slide based on the states of the drop objects when you click the submit button, finally you then submit the interaction which will show the correct or incorrect layers.
HI David,
I recently created a tutorial about setting up multiple drop spots with a Pick One here. Perhaps you'll find it helpful.
There's also a link there to the other thread where you can download a sample file.
Rebecca,
I've followed your video but I'm running into a issue where the items are snapping back if they are dropped on the incorrect box. I would like it to all the user to choose incorrectly and then submit. Can you please help me? I have 6 pictures and 6 empty boxes. The user is to put each picture in a DO or DON'T column.
Hi Rebecca,
Thank you so much. I will go through your tutorial and look at
the details in the example. Wonderful stuff - many thanks again
What if you are using an image and a text box that is grouped? I have followed all the necessary steps and cannot get a correct answer. I believe it may have to do with my drag items being grouped. I can only specify the image or the text alone to be the correct state.
Hi Joelle,
The groups may well be messing things up. Would it be possible for you to attach a sample slide here for the community to take a look?
I had the same issue with the grouped items. Once I removed the grouped items and replaced them with a single item, everything worked great.
Hi Rebecca,
I used the BOSTON example and it works quite nicely. I have a question. How can I make it work for more then 1 attempt.
So when a user presses submit and gets an incorrect answer, on pressing try again, the drag objects should go back to the original position.
Could you please suggest something.
Thanks,
Ashish
Hi Ashish,
See attached. Here's what I did:
Set up the quiz so that 3 attempts are allowed.
VARIABLES
Added a T/F variable I called "tries"
LAYERS
Base Layer: Changed the slide properties so When Revisiting is "Reset to initial state."
Try Again Layer:
LAYER TRIGGERS
Added a trigger that adds 1 to the TriesVariable when the timeline starts
Added a trigger to show the Incorrect layer when the timeline starts of the TriesVariable is greater than 2.
OBJECT TRIGGER
Jump to the Pick One slide (so actually the base layer of this slide) when the user clicks the Try Again button.
I think I captured it all. Please shout out with any questions.
Hi all,
I followed Rebecca's example to generate a multiple drop by creating a pick one, but it's not working, and I don't know why that is. I am hoping someone can take a look at the mock-up, and have the objective eyes to see where it's gone wrong. I have attached it here. Thanks in advance.
