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Adding a Resequence question to a lesson

Ask students to drag items into the correct order. Items shuffle automatically.

Written by Kat Morgan

Resequence asks students to drag items into the correct order. Steps of a method, events on a timeline, words in a sentence, lines of a poem. Anything where sequence matters.

Adding one

Type /resequence or pick Resequence from the + menu.

An empty Resequence block ready for items

Building the sequence

Type each item in the order you want it to be correct. Click + Add item to keep adding rows. There's no separate "correct order" field. The order you type things in is the correct order.

Tips:

  • Six or seven items is the sweet spot. More than that, and students start guessing.

  • Keep each item to one line if you can. Long items are hard to drag and harder to scan.

  • If two items could plausibly swap, your question is probably ambiguous. Rephrase or remove one.

How students see it

When a student opens the lesson, the items are shuffled. They drag items up and down to put them in order, or tap on touchscreen. They can resubmit until they get it right (depending on your feedback settings).

Marking

Resequence questions auto-mark. By default, a student earns one mark if the full order is correct and zero otherwise (it's an all-or-nothing question type). Set the mark value for the question in the right-hand drawer.

Per-student responses

The Block Detail Drawer shows you the actual order each student submitted. Useful when you want to see which step a class is getting wrong, not just whether they got the whole thing right.

Question prompt

The prompt supports rich text and inline maths. Bold the key word the sequence is about, drop in a relevant equation, or paste a short paragraph for context.

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