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Pairs Activity

With the Connections Activity, provide a prompt for learners to identify an item(s) from an unlimited group of items. Learners will click to select items that are ‘connected’ or related to the ‘prompt.’

With the Image Matching Activity, learners scroll through images until they find the
one that is associated with the given image.

This is an image to image matching activity. See an online example.

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Things to know

Activity title:

Up to 35 characters look best (50 max)

Activity instruction:

Up to 50 characters look best (500 max)

Activity prompt:

100 characters or less look best (unlimited)

Number of activity cards:

Up to 10 4 cards look best (unlimited12 max).

A vertical scrollbar appears at the left after 10 4 cards.

Activity image best practice:

Portrait:

  • 107px-horizontal x 156px-vertical without a text label 

  • 65px-horizontal x 85px-vertical with up to 12 characters

  • Resize image to 80% horizontal x 50% vertical to allow up to 24 characters

Landscape:

  • 134px-horizontal x 107px-vertical with/without a text label

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Tips

  • Portrait images with no or limited text work best.

  • Use wide images with text and use tall images for only image cards.

  • Images at 800 pixel height and 600 pixel width work best.

    • A wide image will allow more text space below the image for short, well formatted text to fit in the card

    1:1 Aspect Ratio images work best for 4 match pairs.

    4:3 Aspect Ratio images work best for 4+ match pairs.

    Minimum 179 width x134 height pixels.

    A 1:1 ratio means that an image’s width is equal to the image height.

    A 4:3 ratio mean that an image’s width of is 4 units and a height of 3 units.

    A unit can be inches, lines, or pixels

    There are several free image editors available to adjust the image aspect ratio.

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    To maintain image quality, crop the image dimensions using any image editor (ex. Paint/Paintbrush).

    If an image is re-sized but not cropped to match pixel dimensions, the image may be stretched or squeezed to fit which can degrade the image quality.

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    Activity Image

     

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    Tip

    1. Learners can click the magnifying glass icon to enlarge the image.

    2. Images with little or no text work best.

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    Accessibility

    Screen readers will also read out loud:

    • Activity Title

    • Activity Instructions

    • Activity Keyboard Command List

    • Activity prompt

    • Card text

    • Image alt text

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    Keyboard Command list for Activity

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    Create

    a Pairs

    an Image Matching Activity

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    Build the Activity

    Enter an activity prompt.
    This prompts the student to click on a specific area of the image.

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    Partial Credit (on)

    When partial credit is enabled, learners will receive points for correct selections.

    Then points are detracted for any incorrect selection.

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    Video of partial credit Enabled

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    Partial Credit (off)

    When partial credit is disabled, the leaner must make all correct selections to receive points for the activity.

    1. Click the ‘Add Item’ Matching’ + icon to create a card.

    2. Add and format text in the middle card and/or
      Add an image using Select File.

    3. If the card is the correct answer, click the box under ‘Correct Answer’ at the right.

    4. Return to the activity editor clicking the Back button.

    5. Repeat these steps to create all correct or incorrect card(s).

    6. Select options: Partial Credit, Show Answers, Feedback Sounds, or add points for a scored activity.

    7. When finished, click OK.
      The Connections Activity placeholder will appear in the lesson.

    8. Preview the lesson changes.

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    Pairs Activity video

    1. an image matching pair.

    2. Click Select File to insert
      a local image file,
      SoftChalk Cloud image file or
      URL image file location for
      each matching image pair.

    3. Add alt text for each image.
      (required)

    4. Repeat STEPS 1-3 until all
      matching image pair sets have
      been created.

    5. Add points to the activity,
      enable Retry, Show Answers
      or Feedback sounds
      (optional).

    6. Click OK to insert the activity
      into your lesson

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    For example

    If one selection is incorrect, the learner will receive zero points.

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    Video of partial credit DisabledImage Matching Activity video

    Image Matching Activity.mp4

    Image Matching Activity Mobile Views

    Vertical

    Horizontal

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