When talking about exercises, we use the following terminology.
Exercise
An exercise is the container that includes instructions, questions, and interactive elements. An exercise can be as simple as a single instruction and a single question (e.g. “Solve the equation x^2+x=0” with a single formula editor). An exercise can also be a complex piece of content, with multiple text blocks, questions (a, b, c), and many interactive elements.
An exercise can be randomised by using scripted variables in your texts and interactions. You can define these variables in a script.
Every exercise has a unique ID, which is used to refer to this exercise in your learning platform. You can see this ID in the URL of your browser or you can copy it to the clipboard using the copy icon in the top right corner of the page.
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Audience
The audience defines what kinds of students the exercise is meant for. For example, the audience can be set to “Key Stage 3 (UK)” or “Grade 2 (Belgium)”. AlgebraKiT uses this audience to automatically adjust the mathematical notation, worked solutions, and hints and error feedback.
Let’s consider solving the equation a^2+a-20=0 for a. The following worked solutions are automatically generated by AlgebraKiT based on the audience:
Key-Stage 3 (UK) worked solution:
Grade 2 (Belgium) worked solution:
Note how the language of the explanations of the steps is different. Also, the notation for the final answer differs between the United Kingdom and Belgium.
You can select the audience of an exercise at the top of the edit page:
Which audiences are available to the authors can be defined in the subject settings.
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Question
A question is a subpart of an exercise. If an exercises contains multiple questions, then these will be labeled as a, b, c, etc. If an exercise has only one question, then the label is not shown.
Icons to recognize questions
In the case of a single question, the question is indicated with the edit icon in the tab on the lefthand side of the screen.
In case of multiple questions in an exercise, the questions are indicated with the letters a-z in alphabetical order. Default AlgebraKiT behavior is to also show these indicators to a student when making the exercise. They are used as subpart indicators of the exercise. These are customer specific settings. For more information contact your AlgebraKiT representative.
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A question contains an instruction and one or more interactions.
Inserting an instruction
The question content is constructed as a vertical sequence of blocks. Each block can be a text block or an interaction block. It is also possible to insert some math interactions within a text sentence. These are called inline interactions. See Inserting an inline interaction in the question text editor for more information.
You can insert mathematical formulas using the f(x) button in the editor menu.
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Inserting an interaction
You can add an interaction to your question either inline (supported for some interaction types) or as a block element.
Inserting a block interaction
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Inserting an inline interaction
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Interaction
An interaction is a single interactive and scorable math element. AlgebraKiT supports several interaction types:
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Math resource
Math resources are non-interactive mathematical elements which you can include in your exercises. These include formulas, tables, and graphs.
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