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
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Enter your question into the Question Setup field.
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Use the Rich Text Editor to format text or insert images and tables.
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Hover over icons to display tooltips.
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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.
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Enter the Possible Responses you want to be displayed for the question.
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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:
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Select Duplicate Responses to allow students to match the same answer to more than one prompt.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Select Partial Match to award points based on the number of blanks the student responds to correctly.
Partial match
If the Scoring Type is set to Partial Match, the formula for scoring the question is:
(value of the percentage ÷ the number of blanks) × the number of selected correct responses = partial match value
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The partial match value does not represent the number of points the response will receive, but the percentage of the total possible points.
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The calculation always uses 100% from the main correct answer—not the alternate answers.
Partial match 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 ÷ 4) × 3 = 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 response, 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.
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Enter 0 for the Penalty Score to ignore wrong answers.
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Enter 100 to weigh incorrect answers the same as correct ones.
When a penalty score is applied, the scoring formula is:
partial match value - [(penalty score ÷ the number of blanks) × the number of incorrect responses selected] = final score
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The penalty is calculated as a percentage of the total possible points — it is not a fixed-point deduction.
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The penalty is divided across all response boxes to determine how much is deducted for each incorrect selection.
Penalty score 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) × 1] = 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
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Click + Learning Objectives to display the Learning Objectives browser.
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From the available learning objectives, select a category and choose from the objectives.
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Click Align to add the objectives.
Preview and edit the question
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Click Preview Question to review how the question will display to students.
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Click Edit Question to return to the question editor. Alternatively, click X to close the question.