Drag and drop into text

Question types ::: qtype_ddwtos
Maintained by TimTim Hunt, Jamie Pratt, at the OU (Perry building)Mahmoud Kassaei, Phil Butcher
Part of set Open University.
A drag and drop question type where missing words have to be dragged into gaps in a paragraph of text.
Latest release:
71 sites
35 downloads
56 fans
Current versions available: 6

There are working examples in eAssessment with Moodle on our OpenLearn site.

The documentation is in How to create questions in Moodle on that site.

Demonstration of this question type courtesy of Dot Garman.

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Contributors

Tim
Tim Hunt (Lead maintainer)
Jamie Pratt: Developer
at the OU (Perry building)
Mahmoud Kassaei: Developer
Phil Butcher: Question type designer
Colin Chambers: Developer
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  • Curtis Barker
    Fri, 27 Apr 2012, 2:24 AM
    Interesting, but having trouble deleting questions. Question remains in question bank, but record is deleting in database.
  • Daniel Henrique da Silva Costa
    Wed, 6 June 2012, 2:29 AM
    Hi, what i do to install the table for this plugin in moodle database?
  • Meg Goodine
    Wed, 12 Sept 2012, 6:35 AM
    I'm also having a problem deleting questions. Clicking delete goes to a blank screen. Questions still appear in the list but previewing gets: "Can not find data record in database table question_ddwtos"
  • Richard Jones
    Fri, 5 Oct 2012, 11:27 AM
    I saw a remark here somewhere that it had been tested in Moodle 2.3 and using Chrome (but can't find that page now).

    I am finding that it does not work in Chrome but does work in Safari, Firefox and IE9 (all on Windows). Possibly I missed a setting for Chrome somewhere. It also works on Chrome for iPad.

    Couldn't find anything in the bug tracker.

    Moodle 20120910 and latest zip files downloaded from OU site yesterday. Debian Squeeze and MySQL
  • Richard Jones
    Fri, 5 Oct 2012, 11:29 AM
    The cursor changes to drag mode but the text labels are selected as text instead of dragged.
  • Jamie Pratt
    Fri, 5 Oct 2012, 11:34 AM
    I tested it on Chrome (Chrome is my main browser) and the js in the plug in in the 2.3 version is identical to js for older versions. What exact version of Chrome are you using?
  • Richard Jones
    Fri, 5 Oct 2012, 6:01 PM
    Hi Jamie - I'm at home now and tried it again on Chrome and it works fine. Must be something stuffed in the version I have at work. I will check versions, here I am using Version 22.0.1229.79 m
  • Richard Jones
    Tue, 9 Oct 2012, 7:24 AM
    It's not the question, it's that no Ajax drag and drop is working from Chrome at work in Moodle. Used to, doesn't anymore. File drag to course is working. Baffled.
  • Jamie Pratt
    Tue, 9 Oct 2012, 7:41 AM
    That is strange Richard. What version of Chrome and what O.S. are you using at work? Anyone else seeing this problem I wonder?

    Sometimes clearing your cache in your browser settings can fix things if somehow you have some old code in your cache or something?

    The Drag and drop in the question type and elsewhere in Moodle should be fairly reliable seeing as it uses YUI code.
  • Just wondering . . .
    Wed, 19 Dec 2012, 11:06 AM
    I know you must get sick of this question: but are you planning an upgrade to suite Moodle 2.4?
    If yes, is there a date in mind?

    -Derek
  • Jamie Pratt
    Wed, 19 Dec 2012, 11:22 AM
    Hi Derek,

    The 2.3 version should work fine in Moodle 2.4. There have been no changes that affect the question type plug-ins as far as I am aware.

    Jamie
  • Tim
    Wed, 16 Jan 2013, 11:39 PM
    See the answer from Jamie just above your question.
  • June 2007
    Wed, 13 Feb 2013, 2:42 PM
    Just confirming, this question type doesn't support multiple correct answers for a drop location?
  • Jamie Pratt
    Wed, 13 Feb 2013, 3:13 PM
    "This question type doesn't support multiple correct answers for a drop location" That's right Nicolas.

    You specify the correct choice in the syntax used to define a drop for example 1 in the question text would create a drop zone which should have choice 1 dragged to it.

    A possible extension to this question type might be to extend that syntax to something like 2 to allow that choice 1 or 2 are correct answers.
  • Phil Butcher
    Wed, 13 Feb 2013, 10:20 PM
    There are numerous variations on the theme that Nicolas asks about. We use lots of them, but in OpenMark (which our Moodle can also call), not in Moodle natively. I can assure you that if you start adding alternatives you will be surprised about how the 'please can we have ...' will grow.
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