New Matching lay-out

I completely agree that there should at least be an option to turn them off. I have just started a project where I will have to do several of these part labeling matching blocks, and I have gotten feedback it is just too confusing and not intuitive. I even had trouble coming up with verbiage that doesn't confuse it further. I tried not even mentioning you could drag and drop.

Switching sides and changing to letters didn't help clear it up.

It's not AS bad when everything is all text, but the first time I saw this while reviewing a teammate's design I could not intuitively determine what to do with the drop-down. There should definitely be a way to turn this on and off optionally.

I created an enhancement to my 'puzzle' skin to add styling for numbers- critical if you are using a numbered diagram. I'll post the code, as soon as someone solves this CSS puzzle with a correct response:

Agree with all the comments. It was too confusing for me so imagine how a user would respond.  I've had to design something else in story line and upload as an interactive. Lots more work doing this but too risky to use the new matching layout.  I would support a solution to the problematic new layout or just bring back the old favorite! Thanks amazing community!

We are getting customer complaints about people being unable to pass their quizzes because of this very confusing update. 

A few years back I had the need to create a drag activity, and the feedback on it was that it wasn't intuitive to drag the items at all. In that case I created a page where you drag lines between items to indicate their relationship and this seemed more intuitive (and more mobile friendly).

Here's a recording of it in action.

https://360.articulate.com/review/content/19800901-2e7c-4958-bb51-673a9f594fca/review

I can see what Articulate were going for with regards to 'accessibility', having the drop down lists, but I think the design leaves a lot to be desired.

I agree.  I just created a matching activity using the new template, and I'm a little confused about the purpose of the numbering system.  I've tried a few different ways but the numbers don't sequence the way I want them to despite me trying a few ways to control the system. I believe its confusing for the user showing the number system.  I am not going to use this matching template despite it being exactly what I want.  For now I think the designers need to reassess the new design's effectiveness.  Still love the work that Articulate do - so still a fan..

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Thank you!

Any chance someone from Articulate can give a response on your thoughts? I'd like to know if I need to start changing all exercises, which don't work anymore in the new layout, or if we can expect a proper solution coming our way.

Thanks!

I agree about how confusing the update is - and it's particularly frustrating if I have to go back through hundreds of existing content items to change this type of question because it no longer makes sense to any users! It looks like Phil created something that works for both accessibility and from a user perspective - can that please be implemented instead?

Another possibility would be to change the new numbers to a. b. c. d. options? At least that would make more sense if the question is about ordering the items on the left to match numbers of the right...