Matching: standard question type

Use the Matching question type to assess your students' ability to identify pairs.

Question setup

1. Enter your question in the Question Setup field.

   • Use the Rich Text Editor to format text or insert images and tables.

   • Hover over icons to display tooltips.

2. From Prompts, enter the terms to display on one side of the pairs. Prompts will be presented to students in the order defined in the Question Setup.

   1. Click + Prompt to add additional terms.

   2. To reorder prompts, drag and drop them into different positions.

3. From Possible Options, enter the matches to the prompts. Options will be presented to students in the order defined in the Question Setup.

   1. Click + Option to add additional matches or filler words that do not belong to any prompt.

   2. To reorder the possible answers, drag and drop them into different positions.

Correct answer setup

Prompts and possible options auto-populate in Correct Answer Setup. Drag-and-drop each answer to its match to create pairs.

Select Duplicate Responses to allow students to match the same answer to more than one prompt.

Optionally, add alternate correct answers:

• Click the + button at the beginning of the Correct Answer Setup area to set up an additional set of matching options that are at least partially correct.

• In the percentage field, set partial credit and the percentage of possible points students can earn for this answer.

Configure scoring

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.

• Exact Match requires students to match all responses correctly to receive credit. This option allocates 100% of the possible points for correctly matching all responses and zero points if one or more matches are incorrect.

• Partial Match awards credit based on the number of correct matches. Available for supported question types. For scoring calculations and examples, refer to Partial match scoring.

• Optionally enter a Penalty Score to deduct points for incorrect matches. For calculations and examples, refer to Penalty scoring.

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

1. Click + Learning Objectives to display the Learning Objectives browser.

2. From the available learning objectives, select a category and choose from the objectives.

3. Click Align to add the objectives.

Preview and edit the question

1. Click Preview Question to review how the question will display to students.

2. Click Edit Question to return to the question editor. Alternatively, click X to close the question.