Drag and drop into text

Maintained by Tim Hunt, Mahmoud Kassaei, Chris Nelson, Jamie Pratt, Phil Butcher

A drag and drop question type where missing words have to be dragged into gaps in a paragraph of text.

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Supports Moodle 2.1-2.9 See all versions

Latest release: 11 years ago

Installations: 44

Downloads (last 90 days): 41

Frankenstyle name: qtype_ddwtos

Question types

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Phil Butcher

13 February 2013

There are numerous variations on the theme that Nicolas asks about. We use lots of them, but in OpenMark (which our Moodle can also call), not in Moodle natively. I can assure you that if you start adding alternatives you will be surprised about how the 'please can we have ...' will grow.

Jamie Pratt

13 February 2013

"This question type doesn't support multiple correct answers for a drop location" That's right Nicolas.
You specify the correct choice in the syntax used to define a drop for example 1 in the question text would create a drop zone which should have choice 1 dragged to it.
A possible extension to this question type might be to extend that syntax to something like 2 to allow that choice 1 or 2 are correct answers.

Nicolas Connault

13 February 2013

Just confirming, this question type doesn't support multiple correct answers for a drop location?

Tim Hunt

16 January 2013

See the answer from Jamie just above your question.

Jamie Pratt

19 December 2012

Hi Derek,
The 2.3 version should work fine in Moodle 2.4. There have been no changes that affect the question type plug-ins as far as I am aware.
Jamie

Derek Chirnside

19 December 2012

I know you must get sick of this question: but are you planning an upgrade to suite Moodle 2.4?
If yes, is there a date in mind?
-Derek

Jamie Pratt

8 October 2012

That is strange Richard. What version of Chrome and what O.S. are you using at work? Anyone else seeing this problem I wonder?
Sometimes clearing your cache in your browser settings can fix things if somehow you have some old code in your cache or something?
The Drag and drop in the question type and elsewhere in Moodle should be fairly reliable seeing as it uses YUI code.

Richard Jones

8 October 2012

It's not the question, it's that no Ajax drag and drop is working from Chrome at work in Moodle. Used to, doesn't anymore. File drag to course is working. Baffled.

Richard Jones

5 October 2012

Hi Jamie - I'm at home now and tried it again on Chrome and it works fine. Must be something stuffed in the version I have at work. I will check versions, here I am using Version 22.0.1229.79 m

Jamie Pratt

5 October 2012

I tested it on Chrome (Chrome is my main browser) and the js in the plug in in the 2.3 version is identical to js for older versions. What exact version of Chrome are you using?

Richard Jones

5 October 2012

The cursor changes to drag mode but the text labels are selected as text instead of dragged.

Richard Jones

5 October 2012

I saw a remark here somewhere that it had been tested in Moodle 2.3 and using Chrome (but can't find that page now).
I am finding that it does not work in Chrome but does work in Safari, Firefox and IE9 (all on Windows). Possibly I missed a setting for Chrome somewhere. It also works on Chrome for iPad.
Couldn't find anything in the bug tracker.
Moodle 20120910 and latest zip files downloaded from OU site yesterday. Debian Squeeze and MySQL

Meg Goodine

11 September 2012

I'm also having a problem deleting questions. Clicking delete goes to a blank screen. Questions still appear in the list but previewing gets: "Can not find data record in database table question_ddwtos"