PrairieLearn

Mastery learning meets online assessment

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Empower students to master content

Real-time

Students receive immediate feedback about mastery level

Randomized

Students solve randomized question variants until mastery

Repetition

Students are incentivized to repeat questions until mastery

Improve teaching workflows

Adaptive

Score adaptively based on student mastery and question difficulty

Automated

Automate the submission and grading process

Analytics

Analyze assessment quality and student outcomes

Jumpstart your assessments with PrairieLearn elements

PrairieLearn offers a wide range of built-in widgets to accelerate your question writing development

Selectors

Select correct answers from a pool of distractors

Radio buttons
Checkboxes
Dropdowns

Inputs

Fill in the blank

Numerics
Integers
Strings
Symbolic expressions
Pandas dataframes

Editors

Work with in-browser, live-preview editors

Markdown
LaTeX

Visualizations

Display 2D and 3D visuals

Images (static or generated)
GraphViz graphs
Drawing canvases
Element overlays
3D scenes and objects

Files

Work with external files

File uploads
File downloads

Draggables

Drag and drop items into order or orientation

Lines of code
Chronological events
2D vectors
3D objects

Workspaces

Work remotely in custom Docker containers via in-browser frontends

Visual Studio Code
Jupyter notebooks
RStudio

Coming soon!

And more …

Check out the docs to see more elements or how to roll your own!

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