Comments

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  Pascale Colonna

  Thu, 6 Mar 2014, 11:32 PM

  I'd like to say that your 3 plugins are rather popular, but the drag and drop with markers has a design problem: most users think they should drop the text bubble rather than the target. And that's so even when given clear instructions! I wonder if you have heard this feedback before?
  Is there a way you could improve on the design?
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  Phil Butcher

  Mon, 10 Mar 2014, 7:26 PM

  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?
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  Ralf Otto

  Wed, 2 Apr 2014, 6:43 PM

  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
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  Tim Hunt

  Tue, 29 Apr 2014, 2:58 AM

  I just uploaded a new version that fixes the noofdrags import/export issue.
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  David Gustafson

  Fri, 16 May 2014, 10:54 PM

  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.
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  Michael Milette

  Wed, 24 Sept 2014, 12:37 AM

  Is it possible to use this plugin using just a keyboard (no mouse)?
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  Phil Butcher

  Wed, 8 Oct 2014, 12:23 AM

  Yes it is possible to tab to a marker and then drive the marker with the arrow keys.
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  Colin Price

  Mon, 21 Sept 2015, 4:52 AM

  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.
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  Tim Hunt

  Mon, 21 Sept 2015, 7:57 PM

  I just made a test quistion, and
  task in the marker labels work for me.
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  Colin Price

  Mon, 21 Sept 2015, 8:47 PM

  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
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  Marcus Green

  Wed, 11 Nov 2015, 10:00 PM

  It would be useful if the documentation link was pointed to https://docs.moodle.org/en/Drag_and_drop_marker_question_type
  
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  Tim Hunt

  Fri, 13 Nov 2015, 4:29 AM

  Thanks for the idea Marcus. Done.
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  Dave Foord

  Wed, 27 Apr 2016, 5:17 PM

  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?
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  Tim Hunt

  Wed, 27 Apr 2016, 6:17 PM

  I can reproduce this bug. Well done for finding it. I have reported it as MDL-53964.
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  Dave Foord

  Thu, 22 Sept 2016, 3:32 AM

  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.