Drag Text - add false answers

As a teacher, I always have extra answers.  It ensures that students are thinking about the answer and not simply using process of elimination when getting to the last question.  The last question is just as important as the first one, therefore should require the same amount of thought.

I too would really appreciate having the opportunity to include false answers. That option would not have to be implemented by those not wishing to use it but it would test knowledge better than the current format does. Students learn less without the opportunity to make mistakes and they should also be aware that making mistakes does not mean that someone is trying to make a fool of them. The education system must give students the opportunity to go beyond their current level and the opportunity to fail. Self worth will build when they understand that failure is not fatal, it is essential to success.

Possibly, this is more a generational problem than a regional one. In Europe we have the same issue. We were taught, that the US is our positive counter example (where you can set up one business after the other, and fail, as a natural way of progress, without being blamed for it.) Sad to hear that this is or is no longer the case.

But let me get to the point. I consider the ability to "make mistakes, bare the failure and learn from it", one of the core skills in all areas of learning. Another one is to "bear feeling ashamed". Therefore, we specifically train this skill from a beginning. It is literally impossible to learn a language without both of these abilities.

Now, I fully agree, that "distracters" are not the correct way to learn that. (That's why we call them also distracters). However, I do not use them as distractors nor as "failures". (I usually do not give any penalties for chosing the wrong one, in these excercises, and usually I allow repetition without penalty). In indipendent online excercises I like distractors, because they give me the ability to chose a right option and two very clearly wrong options (but technically possible). I use them in different fields. In the example of language teaching, they are helpful, because often giving different choices, lets say for degree adverbs is impossible. They would match the wrong combinations, and get even more frustrated. You see, the lack of "distractors" does not avoid the problem of making mistakes.
Sorry for this long reply. But I hope it gets you all inspired in thinking on how to improve these excercises.

By the way, here an intent of a solution. You can add sentence to the "drop a word" excercise that states: Put words here if not applicable: Option 1: Option 2: Option 3.

Possibly, this is more a generational problem than a regional one. In Europe we have the same issue. We were taught, that the US is our positive counter example (where you can set up one business after the other, and fail, as a natural way of progress, without being blamed for it.) Sad to hear that this is or is no longer the case.

But let me get to the point. I consider the ability to "make mistakes, bare the failure and learn from it", one of the core skills in all areas of learning. Another one is to "bear feeling ashamed". Therefore, we specifically train this skill from a beginning. It is literally impossible to learn a language without both of these abilities.

Now, I fully agree, that "distracters" are not the correct way to learn that. (That's why we call them also distracters). However, I do not use them as distractors nor as "failures". (I usually do not give any penalties for chosing the wrong one, in these excercises, and usually I allow repetition without penalty). In indipendent online excercises I like distractors, because they give me the ability to chose a right option and two very clearly wrong options (but technically possible). I use them in different fields. In the example of language teaching, they are helpful, because often giving different choices, lets say for degree adverbs is impossible. They would match the wrong combinations, and get even more frustrated. You see, the lack of "distractors" does not avoid the problem of making mistakes.
Sorry for this long reply. But I hope it gets you all inspired in thinking on how to improve these excercises.

By the way, here an intent of a solution. You can add sentence to the "drop a word" excercise that states: Put words here if not applicable: Option 1: Option 2: Option 3.

I teach junior high and I use the extra answers within matching questions on reading follow-up questions and unit tests.  We just upgraded to Moodle 3.2 and just got the H5P plugin added, so we haven't used it much.  I have used a "work-around" in which I have an H5P "activity" interactive video, which had to me watched to the end, which then triggered a conditional "quiz" with questions based on the video.  The quiz was not available until the students go 100% on the video.  I had a link to the "quiz" in the text above the video.

You could implement the strategy with existing technology.

Question *Answer*, Question *Answer".

False Friend: *Oops!*

Is there a reason why that wouldn't work?

Hi!

The code for this feature was created in January, but the H5P core team has not yet found the time to review it and to merge it into the official code base.

Best,
Oliver

Hi uwmlrc,

Sorry no updates yet.

-BV

Hi grammaticus,

I'm afraid I cannot provide any timelines nor any assurance that Oliver's PR will be approved. However there are 2 places you can check:

Pull Request: Once it has been closed and sayd merge to Master (samples here), this means that it has been reviewed and tested by the developers of the core team and ready to be released.

Release Overview - This is the list of updates/bug fixes that has been released. Please note that H5P.org (since it is a test site) gets updated first at the same time the plugins or after a day or two. 

-BV