Grasple

Want to get an overview of all texts in a subject? In this article we explain how you can export a complete subject to text.

Creating a text export of a subject

Eric Bouwers

Thijs Gillebaart

Luca Morandi

Learn how to use our Editor to add and edit subjects, lessons and exercises and share them with your students

Editor: how to add and edit learning materials

Learn how you can edit your own personalised course by dragging and dropping lessons on your course map.

Edit your course

You have created your own exercises and/or lessons and you now want to add them to your course.

How do I publish my exercises or lessons to my course?

Pim Bellinga

Editing your course

Are you using the same subjects for multiple courses? And you want to make small adjustments in one of the courses? Read here how to do that

How can we organise and keep track of our collaborative material?

You can move items by navigating to the repo they’re currently in, selecting the items and then click ‘move’.

How do I move lessons, exercises and tests to another repository?

Managing your Repositories

A draft of an exercise allows you to save changes without making them visible to students. This article explores this feature in more depth

Working with a draft of an exercise

You can change settings per subquestion to control the number of attempts, feedback and points per attempt. Read more on how to do this.

How to change exercise settings per subquestion?

Do you want to see what your exercise looked like in previous versions? Read more below!

Viewing previous exercise versions

Do you want to create a new exercise from scratch?

How do I create and name an exercise?

You can edit lessons that have been shared with you by our editors. Learn how you can edit those lessons in this article.

How do I add and edit lessons?

Do you have a lesson or exercise that you want to change?

How do I change an existing lesson or exercise?

Read here how you can know whether you have full editing rights, a reference with editing rights, or a reference without editing rights.

How do I know whether I have editing rights on an exercise?

Are you copying a whole subject, and are you wondering what the difference between copying and referencing is? Read on!

What is the difference between a Copy and a Reference?

Want to use an existing slide as the basis for a new slide? This article explains how to copy a slide and what the various options mean.

How do I copy a slide?

You can add additional answers and specific feedback in an exercise. Help your students understand their common mistakes better.

How to add specific feedback in my exercises?

A quick guide on how to add mathematical symbols and formulas to your exercises.

How do I add math symbols and formulas?

You can insert a url to link to materials outside of Grasple. Select text, click the link icon. Do not forget to include http:// or https://

How do you insert a link?

Read here how you can specify the order of the exercises in your subject, and how you can change the number of exercises your students see.

How do I change the number and the order of the exercises in a subject?

Do you have unlinked exercises or exercises already in another subject that you want to add to a new subject or test?

How do I link exercises to a subject or test?

Do you want to use an existing subject in your course, but without one or more specific exercises?

How do I remove an exercise from a subject?

Did you make an exercise which you don't need anymore? You can permanently delete your exercises.

How do I delete an exercise?

Creating and editing exercises and lessons

You can define a distribution in parameters, but what can you do with this? This article explains this parameter type with a short example

How can I work with (parameterised) distributions in exercises?

A parameterised exercise will come with different values each time one practices. You can add parameters through our user interface.

How do I create a parameterised exercise?

Are you parameterising your exercise and wonder what options are available for parameters? Read below to learn about parameters in Grasple.

What are the possibilities of parameters in an exercise?

Are you using parameters and want to know which operations can be performed on the values? The reference below explains it all!

Which operators are available in parameter definitions?

Do you want to want students to practice with linear regressions? Read below how you can generate multiple exercises using a single dataset

Tutorial: Create a parameterised linear regression exercise

Do you want to create exercises to let your students practice with Boolean Algebra and Logical Expressions? Read what is possible in Grasple

Logical Expressions and Boolean Algebra

Do you want to create exercises where students have to transform numbers between bases such as Binary and Decimal? Read here how to do this!

Number Bases: Binary, Octal, Decimal and Hexadecimal

Parametrisation

Our platform provides 4 answer field types you can use: multiple choice, numeric, one-word open answer and symbolic math answers.

Which answer types can I use?

Are you creating a math exercise and you want to know which methods are available to check the student answer? This article explains how.

Which answer check methods are available in math exercises?

You can use the threshold function in our editor to adjust what is regarded as a correct answer and what isn't.

How does the threshold function in exercises work?

Do you want to provide feedback to students based on characteristics of their answer? You can do this with additional answer rules!

How to add extra answers, answer checks and specific feedback for math exercises?

Want to know how the default Algebraically Equivalent works? This article explains when answers are marked (in)correct by the default check.

When to use the default Algebraically Equivalent check?

Want to check an algebraic expression and its exact form? This article explains when answers are marked (in)correct by the exact form check.

When to use the Exact Form check?

Do you want to check ordered collections/lists. This article explains when answers are marked (in)correct by the ordered collection check.

When to use the Ordered Collection check?

Do you want to make sure that an answer is numeric in a math exercise? This article explains how the `Numerical` check can help!

When to use the 'Numerical' check method?

Do you want to make that operations can be performed on a given answer? This article explains how the `Defined` check can help with this.

When to use the 'Defined' check?

Do you want to know whether an answer is smaller than or greater than a  given value? This article explains the available checks for this.

When to use a 'Compared to' check?

Sometimes you want to give certain answers partial points. You can do this automatically by assigning partial points to answer (rules).

How do I automatically give partial points to an (open) answer (rule)?

Sofie Bastiaansen

Options for answer rules

Do you want to let your students practice with points / coordinates? This article explains how this can be done within Grasple.

Practicing with points / coordinates

Did you notice these possibilities to edit your exercise in more detail?

More detailed editing of your exercises

Want to create an off-line copy of a subject? In this article we explain how you can export a complete subject to PDF.

Printing a complete subject

Want to create an offline copy of a manual test? In this article we explain how you can export a test to PDF.

Printing a manual test

Are you creating lessons and you want the side-pane to show previews of the slides? You can! Switch the slider at the bottom of the page.

How to turn on the preview-pane?

Read here how you can specify a custom order for the answers of multiple choice exercises.

How do I order multiple choice answers in an exercise?

You can easily add pictures and videos to your lessons.

How do I add pictures or videos to my lesson?

Do you want to use 2D line chart in your exercise based on parameters or a student's answer? Read below how you can generate line graphs.

How to create (parameterised) graphs in my exercise?

Ever feel as though using your mouse and keyboard is slowing you down when creating content? Look no further, this article can help you!

LaTeX - Tips and Tricks for Content Creators

Do you want to let your students practice with sets and / or intervals? This article explains how this can be done within Grasple.

Practicing with sets and / or intervals

Do you want to show specific subquestions based on a student answer? This article explains how to set this up a decision tree with logic.

How to create a decision tree with logic within your exercise?

Are you wondering how to use and reference sources in the materials you create? Read on!

How do I deal with copyright?

You can import MapleTA questions in Grasple.

How do I import MapleTA questions?

Tips and tricks for Content Creators

Grasple is unique in providing support for Linear Algebra. Find a brief overview of what you can and cannot do in Grasple at this point.

Creating exercises for Linear Algebra

How to create exercises which ask for a basis of a span of vectors? In this article we explain how to create these exercises in Grasple.

When to use the Linear Algebra "same Basis as" check?

How to create exercises which ask for a solution to a system of equations with free variables? Read in this article how.

When to use the Linear Algebra "same Solution to System of Equations" check?

How to create exercises in which the correct answer is any vector parallel to a given vector? Read here how to do this in Grasple.

When to use the Linear Algebra "Parallel to" check?

Do you want to check whether a matrix is diagonal? This article explains when answers are marked (in)correct by the Diagonal Matrix check.