How to add a drag and drop question

Introduction

In this article, we’re going to show you how to add drag and drop questions to your pages.

Top tips before you begin

• Drag and drop questions allow you to ask your learners to sort things into categories.
• Drag and drop questions are a super way of helping your learners to check their understanding of the content that you’ve delivered.
• Drag and drop questions can be used in pages throughout your course as a way to enhance interactivity, as well as in your assessment.

Video

Watch the video to learn more:

Adding a drag and drop block to a page

To add a drag and drop block to a page:

1. Whilst editing a page, pull a Drag & drop () block from the Add content section of the side menu and onto the page.

2. Select the drag and drop block.
3. From the toolbar, click the edit () button.

Entering your question

To enter your question:

4. Click in the Question field at the top of the page.
5. Enter your question.

You can format your question using the toolbar that appears above the text area. To apply formatting to your question text:

6. Select the text you’d like to format.
7. Select the format you’d like to apply from the toolbar.

The formatting options, from left to right, are:

	Bold
	Italic
	Underline

Entering your category labels

To enter your category labels:

8. Move your mouse over the text that says Enter your category text here.
9. Click the button that appears.
10. Enter your text.

Adding additional categories

To add additional categories (up to a total of 4):

11. Click the Add category button.

Deleting categories

To delete categories:

12. Click the button in the category heading.

Rearranging categories

To rearrange categories:

13. Click the = in the category heading and drag it to the position you’d like it to be in.

Entering your items

To enter your item labels:

14. Click in the item field.
15. Enter your text.

Adding additional items

To add additional items (up to a total of 12 for the whole exercise):

16. Within the category you want to add the item to, click the Add item button.

Deleting items

To delete items:

17. Click the button next to the item.

Adding feedback (pages only)

You can add feedback text to your drag and drop exercises that will be displayed once your learners have answered the question. This option is only available when adding drag and drop questions to pages (it is not available in assessments). Don’t forget that the same text will be displayed whether the question was answered correctly or incorrectly, so you should make the text neutral to cover both of these circumstances.

To add feedback text:

18. Enter your text into the Feedback field.

You can format your question using the toolbar that appears above the text area. To apply formatting to your question text:

19. Select the text you’d like to format.
20. Select the format you’d like to apply from the toolbar.

The formatting options, from left to right, are:

	Bold
	Italic
	Underline
	Numbered list
	Bulleted list
	External link

Returning to the page

To return to the page:

21. Click the in the top-right of the screen.

How your learners interact with it

Once you’ve added a drag and drop question, your learners simply drag the answers to the appropriate category.

If your drag and drop question is on a page, your learner will be informed whether they answered correctly or incorrectly and your feedback text will be displayed.