Drag and drop markers

Maintained by Tim Hunt, Jamie Pratt, Phil Butcher
The student can drag markers to indicate key features on an image.
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Supports Moodle 2.2-2.9 See all versions
Latest release: 11 years ago
Installations: 30
Downloads (last 90 days): 34
Frankenstyle name: qtype_ddmarker
Question types
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Tim
Note, this question type is now in Moodle core. Can you test the latest version at https://qa.moodle.net/mod/quiz/view.php?id=55.
I was under the impression that it works fine on iOS, and I am pretty sure I would have users complaining at me if it was not working at the OU.
Dave Foord
I have just created a quiz using this question type, and then tested it on an iphone, where it doesn't allow the markers to be dragged. I was under the impression that this had been a problem in the past, but had been fixed - or have I imagined this. Is there a way that this question type can be used so that it works on iphone and similar devices?
Thanks in advance.
Tim
I can reproduce this bug. Well done for finding it. I have reported it as MDL-53964.
Dave Foord
I have discovered an issue with this plugin. I am creating some resources to teach decimals, and have created activities where I want to have 10 markers (1 for each digit) which the students have to drag into correct position of a number grid. The question type doesn't seem to like having a marker "0" - the other numbers are fine, but not the 0 (which is quite important for what I am wanting). Has anyone else experienced this?
Tim
Thanks for the idea Marcus. Done.
Marcus Green
It would be useful if the documentation link was pointed to https://docs.moodle.org/en/Drag_and_drop_marker_question_type
Colin Price
Hmm. Thanks for checking. There must be something in my set-up stripping out the tags when Save Changes is clicked....
http://hsogphilosophy.com/moodle/pluginfile.php/1652/mod_resource/content/1/Disappearing%20tags.pdf
Tim
I just made a test quistion, and
task in the marker labels work for me.
Colin Price
Great question type but the
tags etc seem to get stripped out. They display fine in preview but disappear when saved. Perhaps I'm missing something.
Phil Butcher
Yes it is possible to tab to a marker and then drive the marker with the arrow keys.
Michael Milette
Is it possible to use this plugin using just a keyboard (no mouse)?
David Gustafson
This is a response to Phil's question. I do think it is confusing that users can click on the text label, though I understand why it would have sounded helpful. As Pascale said, it's so intuitive to target with what you're dragging, even after you've been told that only the circle works. We've disabled this question type because of this confusion. If it was possible to change this, I personally think it would be very helpful.
Tim
I just uploaded a new version that fixes the noofdrags import/export issue.
Ralf
Dear developers,
i found a little bug in this question type.
If you export this type of question and have a look at the xml file, you will see that the 'noofdrags' are incorrect.
You don't get the values you entered. The value just increments with every marker. (Marker x has x no of drags)
Best Regards
Ralf
Phil Butcher
We developed this Moodle question type based on this http://www.open.ac.uk/openmarkexamples/2d-response/place-marker which is now 9 years old. We've never had an issue with the original OpenMark version - maybe because you have to click on the circle to move the marker. For Moodle we allowed the text label to also be clicked on. Maybe that was a mistake. So do we alter this question so that you have to click on the circle? Any views out there?