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Drag the Words Activity Using H5P

Learn to create a drag and drop activity to assess student knowledge

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Purpose

The purpose of this article is to provide step-by-step instructions for creating an H5P Drag and Drop activity in a Moodle course.

Procedures

1. Make sure you are in Edit mode.

2. Click the More tab in your course.

Course tabs with More tab selected

3. Select Content bank from the dropdown menu.

Options in the More dropdown menu including Content bank

4. Click the Add button to open the activity menu.

Button labeled Add

5. Select Drag the Words.

Activity menu with the Drag the Word activity option selected

6. Title the activity and add text. The answer to your statement or question must be in asterisks.

Text boxes for adding an activity title and the question text

7. Change the behavioral settings from the default settings if you like.

Behavioral settings such as enable retry selected

8. Save your changes.

Button labeled Save

9. Test your activity.

Display of quiz with a check button

10. Click the Course tab.

Course tabs with Course selected

11. Click Add an activity or resource.

12. Choose the H5P mini tile.

13. Add an activity name, instructions (optional), and check the box next to Display description on course page (optional).

14. Click the file icon to open the file picker.

File icon labeled Files

15. Pull the file from the Content bank.

Button labeled Content bank

16. Select the file and then click the Select this file button in the pop-up.

Button labeled Select this file

17. The file will load. Set other criteria for the assignment as you normally would.

Partial view of settings sections

18. Save your changes.

Buttons labeled Save and return to course and Save and display

19. The activity will appear on your course page.

Activity as displayed on the course page

20. Students can then drag the answers to the blanks and get immediate feedback.

Complete quiz with perfect results

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