Editor
Our editor has many features to create learning materials and can be used by you and your students.
Here we are going to explain every one of them, depending on the type of material some of the features might not be enabled.
Display Features
Display Features are used in documents, tasks and flashcards! They enhance your capability to get across what you want and equip you with beautiful tools to increase your students' engagement and improve your development time.
Math equations / Latex
You can use Latex with the standard libraries in your materias. If you click on the Latex-Button, you can either use our calculator like input or directly use Latex. Please only use the formula without $-signs or ( )\ syntax like you would do with MathJax.
Available in: 📄, ✅ , 📚
Screenshot Converter
You can convert a screenshot into editable text and formulas instantly with this tool. It is mainly intended for a series of math equations that would take much time to insert manually. It also recognizes handwriting really well.
If equations are found, you can of course edit them in the latex editor.
Available in: 📄, ✅ , 📚
Math Functions
Easily create interactive graphs of math-functions and insert them into your documents and tasks. Students can inspect them. You can show a grid, an integral and multiple functions at once.
Available in: 📄, ✅
Diagrams
You need a bar chart, line chart or pie chart? No problem!
Just choose the desired type and put in some data. The chart will also be interactive and viewable for your students.
Available in: 📄, ✅
Link topics
Learning how topics are interconnected has proven to massively improve learning success. Therefore you can link to other topics in your course with this tool. The links will be displayed as a hotlink like in Wikipedia. If clicked on by students, a new tab with the topic opens.
Available in: 📄, ✅
Image Upload
You can upload images from your PC and embed them in your materials.
Available in: 📄, ✅ , 📚
Draw-It
We offer a Draw-It extension to create diagrams. Draw-It is one of the most popular open source tools to create graphics. You want to show a simple graphic for a task? This is probably the way to go!
Available in: 📄, ✅ , 📚
Sketches / Drawings
We also offer a TlDraw extension to create drawings. You can draw something on your tablet or with your mouse and create beautiful abstract graphics easily.
Available in: 📄, ✅ , 📚
Placeholders
If your material refers to a company, university or city (e.g. 'Company XY' produces X amount of ...), placeholders allow us to dynamically replace the content to tailor it to your student. If he/she is from Berlin, the city will be replaced with Berlin and same goes for university and company.
Available in: 📄, ✅
Please use this feature! It is way cooler for students and will help us in marketing your course!
Interactive Inputs
only for tasks
For Tasks we use interactive inputs. This means that students can always enter their answers directly on the platform. Therefore, you do not need to grade anything! For every field you have to directly set the correct solution in the editor.
You also have to set the points for ar correct answer for each field! If you use the task in a test, the amount of rewarded points is adjusted for the amount of points you set for the task within the test.
Interactive Inputs are only used for tasks
Easy Input
You configure a perfect solution that needs to be matched exactly by the student!
If you want to use this for decimals, indicate how many decimals you expect in the task! While grading, it does not matter if the student used '.' or ','
Math input
This works mostly like the easy input but the student is able to use mathmatical terms like fractions with out calculator-like input. Additionally rounding errors are checked (e.g. 1.891 is also correct if you set 1.89).
It can also be used for checking terms like derivatives.
This field is checked using an algebra system and cannot correctly check some terms that are too complex. Please test your given solution with some alternative test solutions!
Multiple/Single Choice
The most popular question types are MC and SC questions. We offer you the opportunity to use plain text, images and math equations for the seperate options.
Multiple choice questions can have 0 correct options. For every wrongly checked or left blank options, points are substracted. There are no minus points per MC/SC field though.
Single choice questions have to have 1 correct option!
Dropdown Choice
Here the student sees a dropdown field with different possibilities. This field works pretty much like the single choice field. You have to give exactly 1 correct option, and at least 2 options in total.
Use this option with 'fill-in-the-blank' tasks!
Freetext
Often you want the student to freely formulate an answer. Here you can set the perfect solution. After submitting an answer, the student is asked to review it and compare with your answer to grade himself.
We are looking at using LLMs for this step, but this would mean some more costs for running a course. Please let us know, if you would like us to implement it as a paid option for course creators at info@studymaniac.de.
Drag'n'Drop / Labeling
You can upload a picture or choose a picture in your task by right-clicking it and turning it into a Drag'n'Drop task. On this picture you can create fields and put in the correct label for this field.
Then you have to decide which input type you want for your students.
Drag'n'Drop
Here your labels will be randomly displayed at the side of the image. The student can now drag them onto empty fields (where you created the fields initially).
Labeling
Labeling tasks work like the easy input fields and can be used in multiple occasions. Here it is important that the student's answer needs to match your given solution exactly!
Ordering
If you want your students to describe an order of a process for example, you would use the Ordering field. Here you can set multiple texts in the correct order. The texts will be shown to your students in a random order.
Drawing
Experimental features
You can also draw something. Here it is important to first draw the Starting image. This image is the initial image that is shown to the student.
For example if your student has to draw something into a graph
You can also right-click on images inside your editor to turn them into Drawing Inputs.
Afterwards, you again need to draw the correct solution. This is shown to the user after completing the task, and he/she is asked to grade the given answer.
We are looking at using AI vision models for this step, but this would mean some more costs for running a course. Please let us know, if you would like us to implement it as a paid option for course creators at info@studymaniac.de.
Solution Editor
only for tasks
For a perfect learning experience, students want to know where they did wrong in tasks. Therefore, you have to give a detailed solution for every task. This can be achieved in our solution editor that pretty much works like the document editor and allows to use all display features.
Additionally, you can upload a handwritten solution, image or PDF as well. But this is not advised, as it cannot be easily edited in case of error. Nothing is more annoying than fixing a PDF, believe me!
Step-by-step solution
Sometimes it makes sense not to see the complete solution after submitting the task. Therefore, in the solution editor simply add steps. You use this "line" to divide your solution into several parts, which users can then gradually uncover.