Samigo: Font in Matching Question
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Mark Golbeck August 22, 2024 at 4:04 PM
Since it's been over two years without any further information provided, we're closing this Jira issue for now. If more details become available in the future, we can reopen it. Thank you.
Mark Golbeck August 22, 2024 at 4:03 PM
Since it's been over two years without any further information provided, we're closing this Jira issue for now. If more details become available in the future, we can reopen it. Thank you.
Tiffany Stull September 30, 2019 at 1:58 PM
I don't think O and Z would be a problem, because they can only be letters, not numbers. Additionally, if your question is getting all the way down to Z, it should really be more than one question! I also don't think we see this problem a lot because not many questions have enough choice/match pairs to get up to J. I think just skipping J would probably work fine, except that it might look weird alphabetically.
Matthew Jones September 29, 2019 at 11:39 AMEdited
We could also remove the potentially conflicting letters. For Nintendo Switch Codes they've removed the letters
I (possible confusion with 1 and J)
O (possible confusion with 0)
Z (possible confusion with 2)
So I think there's really only 3.
You also have to get up to 10 matches for this to be a problem currently.
Tiffany Stull September 24, 2019 at 9:53 AMEdited
The letter confusion is definitely an issue.
While I also like the instructor's suggestion about making it apparent which answers have already been selected, instructors can use the same match for multiple choices (and in fact, this might be intentional to make the question more difficult). If an answer option were grayed out or otherwise shown to be already selected, it would seem to the student like that option wouldn't need to be used again, and it might.
Looking at the letters, note that "I" and "J" look very similar. This came up for a student take a quiz and follow-up by the instructor to me.
I have included the instructor comments below:
Here’s some usability observations from the Bridges matching quizzes. Just some thoughts. I think the ideal would be if students could draw a line between words and definitions, or if they could drag and drop. I know that’s probably not possible.
The sans-serif font for matching quizzes causes confusion between “I” with “J.” Please see the forwarded email below. I looked at the matching quiz and have to agree that I and J look very similar, which can cause students to click the unintended item.
Perhaps using a sans-serif font for the Matching can help?
Right now, the vocabulary choices are far apart and vertically separated from the definitions. Is there a way to make it so things are aligned horizontally, not vertically? Maybe just using a two column layout?
Is there a way to gray out matches that have already been selected? That way, students don’t accidentally pick the same letter twice.