Definition
With the Categorize question type, you can ask students to place items into categories and assess them on a variety of concepts (different types of numbers, species, when historical events took place). To create one.
Create a Categorize question
Click on the blue + button to open the 'Add Item' window
Choose "Categorize" from the Paid Questions list
Add items for students to drag into categories
Enter category labels
Drag items into one category to set the answer key. This enables auto-grading!
(By default an item will only be available to drag into a category one time. If you'd like to reuse answer choices and drag them into multiple categories, toggle on "Reuse Answer Choices")
You can add additional categories and/or items by clicking on " Add draggable Item" or "Add new category" below each!
Reuse Answer Choices
By default, reusing answer choices will be disabled. Once an item has been dragged into a category it is no longer available to be dragged again (on the student's end - once the item is dragged it disappears from the list of items).
You have the option to toggle on "Reuse Answer Choices" to allow the same item to be dragged multiple times. When toggling this button on, items will not disappear from the list and students will be able to drag them into multiple categories.
Note: Once this button has been toggled on you won't be able to toggle it off unless you remove the items you've dragged multiple times from their categories first.
Adjust question settings
Students will not be able to submit their work without providing an answer
Randomize Order (Paid Teacher/School & District license only)
If you have a Paid Teacher plan or are a member of an organization with a School & District license you can also randomize* the order of the answer choices to mix things up a bit.
Note: When randomizing the order, the randomization will appear only on the students' end. The teacher's version will remain in the original order, including within the Preview mode. The responses tab for the teacher will also present the answers in the original order.
Add a whiteboard style box for your students to showcase their work
Switch scoring method for this question from auto-grading to a rubric based grading.
Switch on the ability to allow **Partial Credit for Categorize question types to take auto-grading up a notch by allowing your students to get credit for answering part of the question correct:
You can also add hints for your students, and tag the question to standards.
*Partial Credit
How we grade the "Allow Partial Credit" feature in Categorize questions
When you select “Allow Partial Credit”* you can choose between subtracting points for incorrect answers, or not subtracting points for incorrect answers.
If you choose to subtract points for incorrect answers, students’ scores will be auto-graded like this:
Let's take a look at an example of how this works in practice. Here is a Categorize answer key:
Here are some examples of student responses to this Categorize question, along with their auto-graded scores.
Student A
Student B
Student C
If you choose not to subtract points for incorrect answers:
Let's take a look at an example of how this works in practice.
Here is the same Categorize answer key as before:
Here are the same examples of student responses to this Categorize question, along with their auto-graded scores, when choosing not to subtract points for incorrect answers.
Student A
Student B
Student C
