Fill in the blank drag and drop: enhanced question type
Use the Fill in the Blank Drag and Drop question type to create a general pool of possible options that will be displayed to students when they are answering the question. Students drag and drop the correct answer into each blank.
There can be many more possible answers than there are correct answers.
Question setup
Enter your question into the Question Setup field.
Use the Rich Text Editor to format text or insert images and tables.
Hover over icons to display tooltips.
To generate a blank, type one underscore (_) into the text editor or click the Insert Response button in the stimulus toolbar. Each underscore corresponds to an answer blank in Correct Answer Setup. Add additional underscores to have multiple blanks in the question.
Enter the Possible Responses you want to be displayed for the question.
Click +Option to add another possible response.
The response order in this view is the same as that which will be displayed to students. Responses are not randomized. Drag and drop the possible responses within the Correct Answer Setup to change the order in which they will be displayed for students.
Correct answer setup
From Correct Answer Setup, drag each correct term to its matching blank. When a student takes the assessment, the options are listed below the question, and the student can drag the answers to the blanks defined in the Question Setup field.
Optionally:
Select Duplicate Responses to allow students to match the same answer to more than one prompt.
Click the + button at the beginning of the Correct Answer Setup area to set up an additional set of responses to the blanks in the question.
In the percentage field, set partial credit and the percentage of possible points students can earn for this answer.
Scoring type
If your question has more than one blank, choose your Scoring Type for the question after you have entered the correct responses to each blank.
Select Exact Match to require that students correctly respond to all choices. This option allocates 100% of the possible points for a correct response and zero points for an incorrect one.
Select Partial Match to award points based on the number of blanks the student responds to correctly. If the Scoring Type is set to Partial Match, the scoring formula is:
(Value of the percentage field/the number of blanks) * (the number of selected correct responses) = partial match value
The partial match value represents the percentage of total possible points the student earns—not the final point value.
The calculation always uses 100% from the main correct answer—not the alternate answers.
Example:
If there are four blanks, and a student selects three correct responses and one incorrect response, the value produced by the formula would be 75. (100 percent / 4 blanks) * (3 correct responses selected) = 75(%). If the question is worth 10 points, the student would receive 7.5 points, because 75% of 10 is 7.5. To penalize the student for the incorrect highlight, refer to the Penalty score information.
Penalty score
When the question is set to Partial Match, you can optionally set a Penalty Score to deduct a percentage of the total question point value for each incorrectly matched answer.
To award points for correct matches without deductions for incorrect answers, set the Penalty Score to 0.
To weigh incorrect responses the same as correct responses, set the Penalty Score to 100.
When a Penalty Score is applied, the scoring formula is:
[Partial match value] - [(Value in Penalty field / the number of blanks) * (the number of incorrect responses selected)]
Like the partial match formula, this calculation produces a percentage, not a point value.
The penalty score is divided by the total number of blanks to determine the penalty per answer, expressed as a percentage.
Example:
Using the previous example, a student earns a partial match value of 75%. If you apply a penalty score of 20 and the student has one incorrect response selected, the calculation is:75 − [(20/4 blanks) * 1 incorrect response selected] = 70%
If the question is worth 10 points, the student receives 7 points, since 70% of 10 is 7.
Author notes
Enter Author Notes to explain why certain choices are incorrect, or why partial credit was given for alternate answers. This field only displays to authors with edit access. This information will not display to students.
Align learning objectives
Click + Learning Objectives to display the Learning Objectives browser.
Select a Parent Objective to find and select specific objectives.
Click Align to add the objectives.
Preview and edit the question
Click Preview Question to review how the question will display to students.
Click Edit Question to return to the question editor. Alternatively, click X to close the question.