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Hotspot

The candidate clicks one or more areas of a picture.

For authors

A hotspot interaction is a picture with areas (circles, rectangles, polygons) the candidate can choose. It is a choice drawn on an image.

Try it

Try itHotspot over a diagramClickable regions on an SVG. The one interaction that cannot exist without an image, and the one whose image must carry explicit width and height.

The diagram shows a cross-section of a plant cell.

Click the organelle in which photosynthesis takes place.
Cross-section of a plant cell showing the nucleus, vacuole, chloroplast and mitochondrion

Answering

The candidate clicks an area to choose it, and clicks again to clear it. max choices limits how many may be chosen.

Scoring

As for a choice: Exact match on the areas chosen, or Mapped.

In the editor

The Insert menu does not offer it. Import one, or write it in the item’s source. The picture needs a width and height, which the areas’ coordinates are measured against.