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  1. Copying this from the STACK discussion forum. Mention me if you contact them.

    Hi all,

    The INNODEMS team in Kenya is in the process of authoring questions on the topics listed below. We kindly ask anyone who has existing materials related to these areas to share them with us via [email protected]

    See screenshot for more

  2. STACK and

    The MecLib library allows the creation of related questions with Graphics without having to write any . It uses the JSXGraph library that comes bundled with and the output can be customised purely within the casmaxima of the questionvariables field.

    github.com/mkraska/meclib
    (See the wiki link)

  3. Delighted to meet up with the creator of the STACK question type Professor Chris Sangwyn at the second day of the International Meeting of the STACK community at Durham university.

    I am particularly excited by the addition of a STACK question library that is accessible from within the question editing interface. This allows a teacher to bring in a basic template question as a new question and then tweak it to suit their own purposes.

    catalyst-eu.net/service/moodle

  4. STACK Webinar video

    The video from my Academy webinar on education using the question type. I do get quite excited during the presentation. I can make all sample questions available on request. I amused myself again when I heard me mention what I would do if I were/was independently wealthy.

    youtube.com/watch?v=JdLkb2dderM

    Here is the hosting service we offer

    catalyst-eu.net/service/moodle

    (but it is all )

  5. Yesterdays STACK Maths seminar

    The STACK webinar for the Academy yesterday went well. One of the things that came from it was an interest in the freely available banks of questions that ship with it in Moodle mbz backup files. These are from the HELM project (Helping Engineers Learn Maths?) and cover a very wide range of concepts you can get instant student access to a course with the contents from here.

    examulator.com/stack/local/inv

  6. I am doing a webinar tomorrow on "Maths Education with the STACK Question Type"
    moodle.academy/calendar/view.p

    I had made a short video to promote it but my colleague at @catalysteu took the mp4 and tightened it up rather nicely

    This is the service we offer (but its all )

    catalyst-eu.net/service/moodle

  7. I have been using the related question intensely over the last few months. I had idly thought that it would be good to have an automated way of giving inputs and prts “sensible names”, i.e. instead of ans1, ans2 etc I could rename the input fields with things like width, area and have all references updated appropriately.

    It turns out that the feature already exists under the menu Tidy inputs and PRT’s, wonderful!

  8. with the Question Type

    You can book your spot to attend the seminar on 1st April 2025 here
    moodle.academy/calendar/view.p

    The STACK question type is the most powerful and flexible maths related question available for any platform. With that power comes some complexity and this webinar I will address how it can be used by non experts. We will be showing ways of simplifying the question editing process and sharing resources.

  9. questions can be configured to “understand” units. This example shows where the answer is set up as 1m but it will also interpret 100cm and 1000mm as the same.

    I would be interested in examples that showed real but very simple examples of how this can be used.

  10. The question type comes bundled with a copy of the jsxGraph library. This allows the creation of graphical questions including where the student can respond by dragging points.

    This animation shows the automatic grading

    For more about our STACK hosting service see here

    catalyst-eu.net/service/moodle

  11. I am extraordinarily fortunate to work with in my job for @catalysteu I am additionally fortunate to have been working on the type for much of the last year. is too important to be left just to

    I have collaborated on a blog post that covers STACK and our STACK hosting service which you can read here.

    catalyst-eu.net/blog/2025/01/3

    Moodle and the STACK software are available under the license.

  12. The company I work for, @catalyst-eu has announced our
    hosting service. I have been a fan of STACK for more than 10 years and I am excited that we have this offering.

    Moodle and STACK are licensed under the and this is a service to make it easy to set up, run and create that cover almost any area of imaginable. is not just for

    ctly.st/stack

  13. This animation shows a quiz using the question type on a . The back end is running under docker on the same machine which is a 5 with 8GB of ram.

  14. The Question Library feature of the type could be an idea for other question types. It makes over 600 template questions available for import within the question editing interface. is taught in so many subjects, it should't just be left to the

    I made a Youtube video showing this
    youtu.be/9HNMuLMWkUM

    Note the graphical question in the video is one I created.

    For hosting Moodle and STACK see
    catalyst-eu.net/service/moodle

  15. The in using the library to accept the dragging of points as input. STACK, Moodle and JSXGraph are all under the GPL.

    catalyst-eu.net/service/moodle

  16. A new version of the question type has been released, version 4.8.1.
    github.com/maths/moodle-qtype_
    The major features are support for the mobile app and a new “STACK question library” which distributes questions with the source code. Because STACk is complex (and very powerful) this should give people a head start when authoring questions.

    I have been working with STACK solidly for several months now and its power and flexibility are amazing.

  17. The licensed system is the most powerful question type available & is backed by the the CAS System. Although it requires , Moodle can deliver it to any compliant VLE (e.g. and ).

    STACK comes with with over 1,000 questions, from the project. These range from the absolute basics to advanced Maths.

    You can create an instant student account and attempt some of the quizzes here

    examulator.com/stack/