Demonstration: Classification item type

A Classification-type item asks the respondent to categorize the elements, which can be words or images, into what looks like file folders. The tab on the folders is labelled with either text or an image.

Here is a quiz entitled Cinéquiz-français that contains a Classification item, and whose subject is Quebec actors, TV series and films. I will choose this item and edit its content.

Under the Content tab, I wrote a title for the item, and then stated the question in which I ask the respondent to file the names of TV series and films in which two well-known Quebec actors, Raymond Bouchard and Rémi Girard, had acted.

First, I click on STEP 1 – DEFINE THE FOLDERS. That is here, and as the name suggests, I define my folders. We can choose between four types of folders: Image/Image, Image/Text, Text/Image or Text/Text. The first term of the word pair determines the type of labelling on the tabs of my folders (whether I choose text or an image). The second term determines the nature of the elements to be put in the folders (text or image). For this example, I have chosen Image/Text, for I want my folders to be identified using a photo of the actor. The elements to file will be the names of TV series and films.

A Classification item can include from 2 to 6 folders. For this example, I have only two folders. For each of the folders, I can write a positive feedback that will be shown when the respondent has correctly placed all of the elements, and only the elements intended for this folder; negative feedback in case the folder contains at least one wrong element; and feedback for if the folder has no wrong elements, but is incomplete.

If I want to add another folder, I just have to click on the + button on the right side. Now I must choose an image from my library or from my computer to be used as the label for this file folder. Then I will write the feedback.

Now, I click on STEP 2 - EDITING FILE CONTENT. This is where we add elements that the respondent must place in each of the folders. In this example, the first folder already contains four elements. To add an element, we just need to click on the button Add an element. A new element entitled Element without text will be added to the list. By clicking on this text, a zone appears under the folder that allows me to modify the title of this element. Then I write the respective feedback depending on whether the respondent places the element in one folder or the other. These feedback messages are more precise than the ones associated with the folders because they are specific to the element itself.

I can move from one element to another, either by clicking on the elements within the folder, or by using the arrows placed above this zone.

To delete elements, you can check their boxes and then click on the Delete selected elements button, or click on Delete this element above in the element-editing zone.

As in the case of the other types of items, the Add-ons tab allows me to include additional information. For this question, I have not added any additional media or text.

This type of question includes, under the Parameters tab, in addition to Weighting, Automatically start media and Display correct answer, that are common to all the question types, a parameter that allows you to choose the orientation, either horizontal or vertical, of the elements to be filed. I kept the default value, Horizontal. This means that when the quiz is published, the elements to be filed will be one beside the other, above the files, and not one above the other.

To get a preview of how this item will appear and function after it is published, you just have to click on the Preview button on the top or bottom of this screen. So, this is what my Classification item will look like to the respondents, in the published quiz.

The respondent must slide each of the names of TV series and films into the appropriate file folder. When the respondent clicks on the Submit button, the elements that are in the correct folder will be shown in green. Otherwise, they will be red. The feedback specific to each element or each of the folders will be displayed if, of course, you wrote feedback.

And that was Classification-type items!