Pairs Activity

The Pairs activity lets you put matching text and/or image items in pairs (unlimited).
The following screens show how to set up the activity in SoftChalk Create and how
students will view the activity.

This is an image and/or text to an image and/or text matching activity. See an online example.

Things to know

Activity title:

Up to 35 characters look best (50 max)

Activity instruction:

Up to 50 characters look best (500 max)

Number of activity cards:

Up to 10 cards look best (unlimited).

A vertical scrollbar appears at the left after 10 cards.

Character Limits:

Up to 100 characters fit on a card front without an image.

With an image at 50%, up to 50 characters fit comfortably on the front of the card without scrolling.

Learners can ‘scroll’ through text added to a card.

Activity image best practice:

2:3 Image Aspect Ratio work best for an image only card - recommended: 106 width x 156 height pixels.

4:3 Image Aspect Ratio work best for an image with text (50% image, 50% text) - recommended: 106 pixel x 79 pixel

A 2:3 ratio means that an image’s width is 2 units and the height is 3 units.
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.

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.

Activity Image

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Tip

Want to add more text than what appears on the card? No problem!
Learners can ‘scroll’ through text added to a card.
Images with little or no text work best.

Create an Pairs Activity

Build the Activity

Add a prompt for students to identify matching pairs out of a group of items.
Click on the icon to add a Local image file, SoftChalk Cloud image file or URL image file location to display on the card backs. (Optional.)
Toggle Fill Image: On if the image should be responsive and stretch to fill the card back.
Toggle Fill Image: Off if the image should maintain the image ratio.
To remove the card back image, click the icon.
Click the ‘Add Matching’ + icon to create an matching pair.
Click Select File to add a local image file,
SoftChalk Cloud image file or URL image file location to the matching image. (optional)
Add alt text for any images added.(required for images)
Enter text in the center for each item
(optional). You can format the text using the toolbar.
A preview of the item with
image and/or text is available at the right.
Click Back when finished with this
matched pair.
Repeat process until all matching pairs
have been created.
In the activity editor, you will see the
paired items that have been created.
Add points to the activity, enable Retry, Show Answers, or Feedback sounds (optional).
When finished, click OK.
The Pairs Activity placeholder will appear in the lesson.
Preview the lesson changes.

Pairs Activity video

Pairs Activity Mobile View

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