Online Assessments - Limits on Matching Lists question type

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Mark Costello

We have started working with the new question types and found some limitations on the "Matching Lists" question type:

  • There is a minimum of 3 and maximum of 6 pairs. Would be good if this was expanded to minimum 2 and no maximum (or a much higher maximum).
  • There is a limit of 50 characters (for term) and 350 characters (for definitions). Would be good if both were expanded to at least double those limits. The term field in particular is very restrictive.

Our workaround is using the "fill in the blanks" question type embedded into a table however the new question types would look and function a lot better than this if they did not have the above limits.

 

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    Mark Gilmore

    Hi Amelia and Mark

    Our design team is planning a round of improvements in the future which will incorporate feedback we've been receiving. The considerations for this particular feedback are the following:

    • The more pairs you add, the more options will appear in the dropdown, and
    • The longer the character limit, the more text in each dropdown option

    The above could result in there being a very long (wide) dropdown, that will also require a lot of scrolling to find the correct result. The above issues are not preventing us from making the changes, however these were the tradeoffs that we considered for when we designed those restrictions.

    As always, keep an eye out on our release notes for any changes that are made.

    Kind Regards
    Mark

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  • Mark Gilmore

    Hi Mark

    Thanks for the feedback - I'll pass this onto the design team and let you know their thoughts.

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  • Amelia Daw

    Hi Mark, I provided similar feedback while testing also. I totally agree!

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  • Mark Costello

    More feedback on limitations with this question type - you cannot use the same term multiple times. 

    If the system was able to recognise the identical terms and match them to any of the required fields it would be beneficial.

    Example question would be a series of statements with true/false, A/B/C, or similar options. Students may be required to answer the series of questions/statements collectively to show a satisfactory response rather than answering each one individually.

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  • Amelia Daw

    Hi Mark

    We totally agree would be good to be able to have the same term multiple times for things like true/false and also as an example we use for identifying the contamination type (physical, chemical, biological)

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  • Michelle Hall

    Hi.  Is there any progress on using Matching Lists for two items?

     

    I notice that the word limits are increasing next week, but not this.

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  • Mark Gilmore

    Hi All

    Thank you for your patience.

    We have reduced the minimum for Matching Lists from three items to two in the next release on the 22nd of September.

    Kind Regards
    Mark

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