Drag and Drop
Main Uses
A drag-and-drop activity is common in assessing learning. This tool has a wide range of uses when instructors want learners to
- identify the objects or areas on an image
- categorize or attribute objects, statements, or terms to certain groups of concepts
- match two groups of items or objects
Note: If all of the choices to be dragged are images, the activity can use Image Pairing object. See examples on the Image Pairing page.
How to create
1. With no background image, define areas/boxes on a white background and drop text or images into boxes
Example 1: Drag images into boxes
Example 2: Drag texts into boxes that represent groups or categories
Example 3: Drag texts into boxes that describe or define the objects on the image
2. Insert an image as the background and define areas on the image to drag and drop objects (text or images) onto them.
Example 1
Example 2
