Dragster 3

Summary

The most sophisticated drag and drop activity creator available. Dragster 3 now offers a multitude of new features and greater flexibility to activity authors.

New features of Dragster 3

• Draggable images - now activities can be created that use images as the draggable elements.
• Scoring - numeric scores can be allocated to correct, close and missed elements. The overall score is presented as a percentage in feedback.
• Scores and responses recorded - all participant scores and activity attempts can be recorded on the Webducate system. These recorded attempts can be made available for viewing by participants in a gallery of results for use in peer review activities.
• Wiki activities - where participants collaborate to generate and position concepts or labels. An activity version history can be viewed.
• Scorm 1.2 publishing - activities can be published in Scorm format for activity tracking in compatible VLEs.
• All activity text editable - all text displayed within activities is defined during activity authoring providing the flexibility to customize and internationalize activities.
• Easy activity customization - activity settings allow easy authoring of colours used, label and text sizes etc.
• Improved feedback authoring - defined targets can be named for future reference and target points visibly displayed during authoring.

Innovative teaching pedagogies using Dragster

The results recording and wiki features offered by Dragster enable innovative teaching methods to be used with these activities. For example:

• Using an activity results page for peer review and reflective activities.
• A wiki type activity used by a group to collaborate in identifying appropriate concepts and position these on an academic model (e.g. applying a SWOT analysis to a case study).

Example Dragster activities

	Lumbar vertebra labeling activity - this activity scores performance and records these scores and the arrangement of labels for future reference (recorded results)
	Carbon footprint activity - participant drags variously sized footprint images onto appropriate continents. This activity calculates a percentage accuracy score.
	Do-it-yourself Picasso - this example activity uses draggable images and does not provide feedback. The finished activities are recorded and are available for all participants to view (gallery of recorded activities)
	Uses of blogs in education wiki - a wiki activity that gets participants to collaborate to identify and classify blog uses in education (version history of matrix). NB this activity is based on a matrix created by Scott Leslie.

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