How to Create an “Ordering” Activity in OLI Torus

Create an "Ordering" Question

In This Article:
  1. Learn how to create an ordering activity in a project
  2. Learn how to add customizable answer choices to activities
Ordering questions present a hierarchical list of answer choices which the student must then arrange in the correct order.

Torus Terminology Quick Guide
OLI Torus uses common terminology in very specific ways. To clarify, here’s a quick guide for this article on the terms you may come across.
  1. Content and Question Blocks - Torus pages are organized by “blocks”, and blocks are used to house various content. These appear in the “Content Types” and “Question Types” menu. “Paragraph” blocks are the most referred to because they house text and images. “Blocks” will be identified by their type in knowledge base articles. Content type blocks host latent content, like text, images, videos, and more. Question type blocks host activities that students interact with, which instructors collect data from.
  2. Activities - Activity is the term used to describe any interactive content, rather than using “questions” or “assignments” or “assessments”. Activities host question-and-answer content for students to interact with, which is a part of our “active learning” philosophy.

How to Add an “Ordering” Activity

Ordering activities can be added to both ungraded practice pages and graded pages. On a page, hover below the existing block (on a new page, this block will be a “Mixed” content block.”
Selecting the “Order” icon adds a new block to the page.

Editing the Title: Torus does not currently have a unique naming convention for activities within courses. For purposes of data collection, insights, and data downloads, it is recommended that authors uniquely name each activity during course authoring and instructional design. These activity titles can be changed by selecting the “Edit Title” blue text bar next to the existing title, which will be “Ordering” for all new ordering activities.

Tagging Learning Objectives

Each activity in an OLI Torus project should be tagged with a learning objective. For more information on creating, organizing, and mapping learning objectives, see Objectives.

Editing Question and Answers

Entering Question Prompts

In the Ordering “Question” tab is where the student-facing questions and answers are posted. The “Question” box is where the question prompt is entered, and will render as the question in the activity.

Entering Answer Choices

Ordering questions automatically provides two spaces for answer choices. To add more options, select “add choice”. Torus Ordering activities allow for a minimum of two answer choices, with a maximum of seventeen choices. To remove a choice, click the “x” to the right of the input box.

Assigning an Answer

Answers within OLI Torus activities are housed in the “Answer Key Tab”. The answer choices from the “Question” tab will be displayed with a selection bubble to the left of each. Select the “correct” answer from the options.
Arrange the choices in the order combination that marks them correct. This can be done by dragging the choices on the right hand side and moving them above or below other choices.
The answer choices should be clicked and dragged to rearrange the order.
The order hierarchy must be precise in order for the question to be considered the correct answer.

Customizing Feedback

OLI Torus automatically provides “Correct” text for ‘correct’ answer options, and “Incorrect” text for ‘incorrect’ answer options. To change either, type or copy-and-paste new text into each respective box.

Targeted MCQ Feedback

OLI Torus allows for Targeted Feedback. Targeted Feedback is used to provide detailed feedback for a particular answer choice. The option to add Targeted Feedback is visible under the “Feedback for incorrect answers” box. 
Any arranged combination of choices can be given targeted feedback.
Based on the number of choices provided, specific combinations of Ordering choices can have their own versions of targeted feedback. Any combinations not assigned specific targeted feedback will be given the feedback input for “Incorrect Answers”.
If there is a specific combination of feedback that is close to being correct, but is not fully correct, it is recommended that this combination receive targeted feedback, explaining why the student is almost correct but not fully.

Key Takeaways / Summary

To Summarize:
  1. To add an ordering block, prompt the “Question / Content Types” menu and select “Order”.
  2. The question input box is where the question prompt is hosted.
  3. Answer choices are input under the “Question” tab, and configured under the “Answer Key” tab.
  4. Feedback can be customized.
  5. Targeted Feedback provides individualized feedback for each answer choice.

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