Cloze Text with Drag and Drop
A Cloze text with drag-and-drop item provides a sentence or paragraph containing blank spaces with all the possible answers (correct and incorrect) listed above the text. The respondent must drag words to the appropriate blank spaces to complete the sentence or paragraph.
To create a new cloze text with drag-and-drop item:
- From the Items page, point to Add an item, then click Close text with drag-and-drop from the drop-down list. The Cloze text with drag-and-drop page appears.
- Configure the General Settings section.
- Configure the Multimedia section.
- Configure the Properties section
- In the Content – Cloze text with drag-and-drop section, set up the Instructions:
- Add the image(s) to support the Instructions using the text editor. Align the image(s).
- Enter the general description of what the respondent must do beneath the images in the Instructions field. Align the text.
- Enter the question or task in the Statement field.
- In the Text field, enter the cloze text sentence or paragraph in the text field. The text field is in Rich Text Format, so you can format the text or add images if you wish using the text editor.
- To enter a blank space, click Add a gap; the Answers to the gap pop-up window appears.
- Enter the correct answer (multiple correct answers are separated by a / with no spaces), then type a + and enter the incorrect answer (multiple incorrect answers are separated by a / with no spaces).
- Click the Save button; the Answers to the gap pop-up window closes and the correct and incorrect answers appear in the text.
- Repeat steps 7 to 10 to add additional text and blank spaces with answers in the Text field.
- To edit a correct or incorrect answer for a gap, click the button containing the text; the Answers to the gap pop-up window appears, edit the answers and click the Save button.
- To remove an answer to a gap, place the cursor after the button containing the text and press the Backspace key or select and delete.
- When the cloze text question is complete, click the Save button.
- To see how the question will appear to a respondent, click the Web preview button; the item appears in a new tab/window.
Example
This procedure describes how to enter the following sentence as a cloze text question in the Text field of the Cloze text with drag-and-drop page:
The capital of Canada is Ottawa, and the Canadian national anthem is O Canada.
- In the Text field, type or paste The capital of Canada is Ottawa, and the Canadian national anthem is O Canada.
- Select Canada then click Add a gap; the Answer(s) to the gap pop-up window appears. Type Canada+America and click Save.
- Select Ottawa then click Add a gap. Type Ottawa+Toronto/Montreal/Vancouver and click Save.
- Select O Canada then click Add a gap. Type O Canada+The Star Spangled Banner/La Marseillaise/Let it Be and click Save.
The Text field looks similar to the following:
When you click Web preview, the question appears similar to the following:
IMPORTANT: Planning a cloze text with drag-and-drop is essential. Make a list of all the possible correct and incorrect answers you will use. Since all possible answers (correct and incorrect) appear above the cloze text, you do not need to provide an incorrect answer for every instance of a gap. Be especially careful not to add the same incorrect answer to multiple gaps, or you will see duplication in the answer choices, as illustrated in the following example:
The Text field in the editing module:
In the Web preview:
