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Drag and drop

Students drag labels or picture pieces onto targets on an image, for example naming the stages of the water cycle on a diagram.

When to use it

Use it for labelling: diagrams, maps, apparatus, the parts of a plant or a cell. Dragging a name onto the picture ties the term to the thing itself, and the placements are checked automatically.

Building the activity

  1. In a worksheet, use the + between two items, search for Drag and drop task and choose it.

  2. Click the pencil on the new task and write a short instruction at the top.

  3. Click Create Drag & Drop Activity. The Drag & Drop Editor opens; click Upload image and choose your picture.

  4. Add the things to drag with the editor's tools: Add label for a text label, Add image for a small picture, or Cut out to cut a piece out of the picture, which also makes the spot it came from its target.

  5. Use Draw target to mark any other place on the image where something should go, and give targets a Target name.

  6. Under Items, set Belongs in for each item: tick its target, or choose No target (distractor).

  7. Click Save, then the tick.

To change the activity later, open the task with the pencil and click Edit on the picture. If an item belongs in more than one target, Must be placed in each target decides whether students place a copy in every one, or whether any one of them is enough.

What students do

Students see the image with empty targets and the items to place. They drag each item onto a target and submit; every item that belongs somewhere has to be placed first.

If Show correct answers is turned on in the presentation settings, each placement is marked right or wrong after submitting.

Checking the answers

Each placement is checked automatically. Everything in the right place is correct, and some right is partially correct. A distractor dropped onto a target keeps the answer from being fully correct. Open Results on the question to see what each student placed in each target.

Tips

  • Name the targets: Results shows one column per target, and names are easier to read than numbers.

  • Add a distractor so the last label is not a giveaway.

  • Leave space between targets so they are easy to hit on a tablet.

  • Replacing the image removes the cut-outs you made, so settle on the picture first.