Drag-and-Drop Matching

Thanks David and Jean-Michel! We look forward to getting in touch and assist the users of this excellent plugin.
Thanks and Regards,
Arindam

A big thank to DualCube for keeping this plugin alive

Hi,
I really like the drag and drop matching question type. We are using it in Moodle system in our higher education institution. Our institution use Moodle 3.1 and Moodle mobile 3.1.1. In the Moodle mobile 3.1, quizzes are integrated with the mobile app. https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_Mobile_3.1.0_release_notes. However, the question type is not integrated with Moodle mobile app. When clicking into a quiz with the question type, it appears a warning message, "This quiz cannot be attempted in teh app because it has access rules not supported by the app: quizaccess_ddmatch".
The developer of “gapfill" question type asked about this issue in the Moodle forum. The official Moodle mobile developer has replied the forum. Generally, some development need to be done in the question type plugin side. He also provides detailed guide in the reply: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=334322
I really hope you can integrated the drag and drop matching question type with Moodle mobile. It will also benefit a lot for other users.

I am having trouble importing Moodle XML of this type of question WHEN it contains an mp3 file. Does anyone know what might be causing this? We are also having problems restoring a course which contains many dd matching questions to other sites. Any information about this would also be appreciated. Or, if you have time to repair the plugin. Thanks, Dave

Our school is a long time user of ddmatch and we find nothing in the new 3.0 question types 'matches' it for usefulness and ease of authoring. Unfortunately, it is so easy, that almost all of our teachers make questions and often cut and paste from Word. This results in backup/restore errors. Here is an error message we are getting when this happens: Data too long for column 'answertext' at row 1. INSERT INO mdl_ddmatch_subquestions. (plus a lot more error data). In short, when you cut and paste from Word, hundreds of formatting characters come along with the simple paste of a few words. ddmatch apparently cannot handle this and backup/restore errors result. I have not noticed this happening in other question types, so I imagine there is some database setting that could be adjusted to be more forgiving when teachers paste Word text into the text boxes of ddmatch. What do you think? Is it possible to fix this, or do we just have to warn teachers never to paste from Word?

Is version 1.6 compatible with PHP7?

Hello,
I have released a new version that explicitely say it support Moodle 2.9 and Moodle 3.0.
But in fact apart a notable change in the backup restore code there is no real change because there have been no real change in the core match question code.
I think it's honest for me to sate that I will end my teacher career in 5 months from now and my current plan is to stop maintaining this plugin at that date. The main reason is that this plugin is just the match question with some added javascript and I am really bad at javascript so it's really hard for me to work on this plugin. If anyone would adopt it, please do so.

Our organization has decided to move forward without using this plugin as it does not explicitly list support for Moodle 2.9 and bug fix support for Moodle 2.8 has been discontinued. We have found that this question type can often be replaced by either Matching, or Drag and drop into text, both of which are fully supported going forward.

I just want to say that I use this question-type very often in my lessns and I was very astonished as Idid not find the question-Type after an Update.I would also appreciate very much a Version of this PlugIn explicitely for Versions 2.9 and up, because at the moment I cannot use a huge amount of my questions in the upgraded Version of our moodle. When is an upgraded Version planned for?
Many Thanks
Peter

Are there plans for this plugin to explicitly support Moodle 2.9 and up? As bug fixes for general core bugs in Moodle 2.8 will be discontinuing in less than a week, we may soon be facing the choice of either staying behind (not advised), or possibly moving forward without using this plugin.

Hi, Jean-Michel.
Sorry for asking your help, but I am having some problems with DDMatch in Moodle 2.9.x.
I get the following message when trying to import course content to another course.
"error_qtype_ddmatch_subquestion_missing_in_db"
Using Moodle 2.9.2+ (Build: 20150924)
DDMatch version - 2014110900
Can you please give any hint on what might be the problem? Thank you so much

Is it possible to set the mark for this question as all or nothing? For example the user matches 3 out of 5 words correctly, but 2 are incorrect, so this means they get the overall question wrong.

Hi author,
I am wondering whether the plugin can support to grade for each correct answer drag in a question.
For example, I create a quiz with a question in matching drag & drop type. There are 5 sub question in the left side, and there are 8 shuffle answer in the right side. The total mark of this question is 5, student can get the mark his own that equal the correct dragged for each sub question.
At the present, if I set the mark of question is 5, and student get 5 if he drag correctly total 5 sub questions, and he get 0 if he drag at least one incorrect sub question.
Thanks and all the best!

Hello, I have the following error message when the content of the label exceeds 640 characters : "erreur écriture base de données ." Thanks for your answer. Michel