Using clickable areas on an image as an answer in a Quiz

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maguire
Community Champion

Another instructor has asked about quiz questions where the answer is based upon the student clicking on an area in an image.(The instructor has a lot of questions with such answers in another LMS and wants to import them.) Has anyone implemented such a quiz in Canvas?

According to https://kb.wisc.edu/page.php?id=70149 there is no Canvas equivalent of a drag and drop marker.

While one might use an HTML <area> tag (i.e., using a map and area shape) to name clickable regions of the image (see HTML area tag), the map tag is not supported in Canvas.

The only alternative that I have been able to think of is using an external tool via LTI that would enable the user to make their selection and would return the answer based upon either the href or the alt property of the area OR perhaps the external tool has to actually have the list of points associated with each of the possible answers and just the return the points.

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dlyons
Instructure Alumni
Instructure Alumni

Clickable area (or "hot spot") questions are part of the new Quizzing engine coming out this year. This presentation is from Instructure Con 2016, but will give you a good idea of some of the cool stuff coming (hot spot question included!)

https://www.youtube.com/embed/QtUpz5HZlSg

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