Issue with Drag the Words target areas, words end up in wrong target area
Drag the words has issue especially with longer words and if/when target areas are close to each others.
When words are dragged it highlights all the target areas which word touches at the moment, and drops the word to an area which borders were crossed first, not the area which word/mouse currently hovers over.
E.g. in example image both ot the top left target areas are highlighted because the word touches both of them at the same time (dashed line around activated targets) when user dragged the word from the right side to the left side of the content over multiple targets.

When word is then realeased it ends up in the target area on right, despite mouse cursor and word itself was visually hovering mostly over the leftmost target area, which was the intended target for the word drop.

What seems to cause the issue is that when dragging the word over multiple targets, it actives all the target areas it touches and seems to lock on to target area which the word crossed first if the word is still touching that area when user releases the word.
Word then goes to the first target are it crossed, even if the word and cursor are clearly moved over the other target area.
In older versions, e.g. example here https://h5p.org/drag-the-words this issue did not exist because even when the word was hovering over multiple targets, only one of the areas became active targets.
E.g. here word 'green' is visible touching both Blueberry and Strawberry areas, but only Strawberry is visibly activated and when word is realeased it goes to highlighted area even if user moved it there over the Blueberry area.

Especially in tight spaces (many targets close each others) and with long words (easy to touch multiple targets at once) content can be almost impossible to do, unless user figures out that words can also be moved by first clicking the word and then the intented target.
But that functionality is not clearly explained or widely known and people by defaut try to drag words in content type called "drag the words".
Content needs fixing so that only one indicaded target is activated at one time, same way it worked before.
Tested in
Moodle 4.5.13 (Build: 20260810)
mod_hvp 1.28.2 (2026062500)
Drag the Words (1.10.50)

BV52
Thu, 09/03/2026 - 01:39
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Hi Shilbu,Drag Words will
Hi Shilbu,
Drag Words will drop the draggables into the drop zone where the mouse is pointed. So please let your students know to make sure that they point the mouse icon into the box they want to drop the draggable.
-BV