Interactive course activities (content) for use by students are created in Numworx Author. This is a WYSIWYG authoring environment, available as installable application.
Numworx Author is based on a text editing environment system with rich text layout possibilities (including media) and excellent integration of mathematical notation. Authors have access to a wide range of item types for interactive assignments such as:
Interactive item types
- Text answer boxes
- Multiple choice items
- Drag-and-drop items
- Solution boxes with formula insertion
- Solution boxes with optional multiple lines for step-by-step solutions
- Items for inserting graphs, for example
Numworx Widgets
In addition to the basic item types, Numworx also offers a collection of widgets designed for specific complex interactions such as simulations, 2D and 3D construction tools, statistics tools etc. These widgets can be integrated seamlessly in the interactive course activities.
While in many systems widgets generally have limited functionality, many Numworx widgets offer a level of complex functionality previously only available with stand-alone applications.
Numworx’s widget collection is easily expanded and third-party software can also operate as a widget using the API supplied.