With Matching questions, students pair items in the prompts column to items in the answers column. The number of items in each column doesn’t have to be equal because you can reuse answers and add additional answers. Additional answers are distractors that don’t match any of the prompts and increase the question's difficulty. Some instructors use distractors so students can’t guess at answers by the process of elimination.
When copying questions and answers (distractors) from a formatted Word document, please ensure that all text formatting is removed before pasting. To do this, use one of the following methods:
- Option 1: Right-click in the answer box and choose “Paste as plain text.”
- Option 2: Save the entire Word document as a .txt (plain text) file, then copy and paste from that text file into the answer boxes.
This will ensure that hidden formatting does not reveal the correct answers to students.
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