First attempt to add interactivity with JSX Graphs on HELM workbooks in STACK
Konstantina Zerva
School of Mathematics, the University of Edinburgh, UK
Abstract
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the University of Edinburgh and Loughborough University collaborated to develop interactive online workbooks for the mathematics education of STEM students. These materials have been in use and evolved over the last two years, in which we have seen a significant amount of online teaching and students have engaged significantly better with the interactive online workbooks than in the other elements of the courses over this time.
Our approach to the online workbooks was to use the STACK online assessment system and combine our experience gained with running the fully online course “Fundamentals of Algebra and Calculus” (FAC) with materials from the HELM (Helping Engineers Learn Mathematics) project workbooks. Each interactive workbook is a Moodle quiz with textbook-style written content, worked examples, simple tasks and practice questions. Almost all questions are randomised so each student will have a collection of questions which use different values.
When we started translating HELM into STACK we didn’t have any interactive element because it required extra effort. This talk is an update on the HELM into STACK project. It focuses on updates that happened over the last year and how we started adding JSX graphs in some of our questions.