How-tos

The student is given a number in base 10 and asked to write it in a given base, between 2 and 16. The number has at most 3 digits in the other base.

Until it's possible to derive the expected answer for a part in the marking algorithm (see the issue tracker), this question has "show expected answer" turned off, because it just shows the base 10 number.

This question shows how to pick a GeoGebra worksheet to show to the student from a list, based on the value of a question variable.

Give the student a larger area to write some free-form text, which isn't marked.

Lay out gapfills so the student has to enter either the numerator or denominator of a fraction.

Shows how to use the "random person" extension to pick random names for people in your questions.

This question demonstrates defining an 'unknown' function $F(x)$ as a custom function so that it can be used in marking.

The definition of $F$ is arbitrary, so care must be taken to ensure it doesn't have more properties, such as evenness, than necessary.

This shows how to define a question variable whose value is a variable name with a few annotations added, so it's more convenient to use.

The question variable 'x' is defined to be the variable name vec:underline:x.

The student is given a value of $\cos(\theta)$ and has to find $\theta$.

Shows how to use subexpressions to represent randomly-chosen fractions of $\pi$ and surds, and have them displayed nicely.

Shows how to create a simplified JME subexpression, and substitute it into a string variable.

To prevent students from giving a trivial answer for a part which is used later in adaptive marking, you can consider it as invalid.

Part a of this question has a custom marking algorithm which marks an answer of zero as invalid. Any other answer is used in adaptive marking for part b.

Use the bareMatrices display flag to render a matrix without wrapping it in parentheses.

This question uses a "formatted text template" variable to define a long passage of text which is shown to the student after they submit a part. A custom marking algorithm adds the text as a comment after the standard marking algorithm has finished.

The gap-fill part in this question is only marked correct if both gaps are correct.

The feedback from the individual gaps is not shown.

A custom marking algorithm for a JME part estabishes whether the student's answer is equivalent to the expected answer, up to an arbitrary constant factor.

This question contains a "choose several answers" part which has an "all-or-nothing" mark scheme: the student is only awarded marks if they tick all of the correct choices, and no incorrect choices.

The student must enter a number in scientific notation, with separate boxes for significand and exponent. They only get the marks if both elements are correct.

These questions show how to use JSON data to represent structured information.

Create a list of records for randomly-generated people. Each record contains the person's name, age, and list of hobbies.

The names and hobbies are generated from JSON data.

Choose from one of several pre-defined scenarios, and set variables to the corresponding values, defined in lists.

This question has three variables: city, population, and percent_like_chocolate. These differ for each city. We've defined a list for each variable, with the corresponding values. A variable called scenario picks a random position in the list, so the value of city, for example, is cities[scenario].

One method of randomly choosing names for variables. For each variable, we have 4 options. Create a list of 4 numbers, which is 1 for the name we want to use, and 0 otherwise.

Then, whenever we use that variable, multiply each of the possible names by the corresponding number in the list. When the expression is simplified, the unwanted names will cancel to 0, leaving only the name we want.

This is quite clunky!

(This question also uses a custom marking script to check that the student has simplified the expression)

Load data about members of the Scottish parliament from a JSON object, and display a table of 5 randomly picked MSPs.

Load data on some items held in the Cooper Hewitt collection, and show a table of 5 randomly picked items.

This question adds a CSS rule to hide the brackets around the matrix input.

Some custom CSS restyles the matrix input so it looks like a fraction, with input boxes on top and bottom.

Ideally, there should be a fraction input part type, or an option for the number entry part to display a fraction input.

Student is given a few numbers to choose from. They must pick at least two, and then give the sum of their chosen numbers.