Assessment Question Type: Matching

With Matching questions, students pair items in one column to items in another column. The number of items in each column doesn’t have to be equal because you can reuse answers and add unmatched answer choices. Unmatched answer choices are distractions that don’t match any item and increase the question's difficulty. Some instructors use distractors so students can’t guess at answers by the process of elimination.

1. Access the assessment you are adding the question to.
2. Select the + sign in the middle of the page and select Add Matching Question.
   
    
3. In the text box provided, enter the number of points the question is worth. 
4. In the text box provided, enter the question text.
5. In the Prompts text box, enter the prompt statement or item.
6. In the Answers text box, enter the corresponding match for the prompt.
7. To add a pair, select Add Pair, and repeat steps 5 &6 until all pairs are created.
8. You have the ability to add additonal answers. These can be used to increate the questions difficulty and eliminate the ability to use process of elimination.
9. If you do not want to add additional answers, you can select the trash can icon to remove the additional answer.
10. Select your scoring option.
    • Allow partial credit - the student will receive points for the answers that are correct, but will not receive points for the incorrect answers.
    • All or nothing - the student must get the question 100% correct to receive credit.
    • Subtract points for incorrect matches, but question score cannot be negative - student will lose points for incorrect answers but question score cannot drop below zero.
    • Allow negative question score - student will lose points for incorrect answers and question score can drop below zero.
11. You can enter automated feedback for correct and incorrect responses by enabling the feature and adding feedback to the respective text boxes.
12. Select save to save your question progress.