Drag to Match tasks present learners with a set of items and corresponding targets, requiring them to match each item to the correct target by dragging and dropping.
These tasks are ideal for scenarios where you want learners to actively explore relationships between concepts or elements. They are particularly useful for:
- Reinforcing conceptual links by requiring learners to associate related terms, steps, or components from the briefing panel or practical machine.
- Assessing understanding of categories and groupings, since learners must sort or pair items accurately rather than relying on recognition.
- Encouraging deeper engagement by prompting learners to think critically about how pieces of information fit together or map to each other.
- Validating process comprehension, where learners demonstrate how inputs relate to outputs, actions to outcomes, or causes to effects.
- Supporting visual learning, since the interactive format helps reinforce memory through hands-on matching.
We recommend ensuring that the correct pairings are clearly supported by the lab content and that distractors are meaningful to avoid learner frustration.
Building a Drag to match task
To build a Drag to match task:
From the Task Library, select the Drag to match task type and click Add.
- Click Edit to configure your task.
The Title allows you to configure what appears as the title of the Drag to match, giving you the option to edit this to make it unique to your drag to match.
- Below, you can configure your matching items. You have an item and a target. You can add as many as 10 pairings. You can easily remove pairings by selecting the X or adding new pairings by clicking Add option.
- Click Save changes.