Using eBooks with Runestone Academy The PreTeXt Interactive Edition

The new Assignment Builder makes it easy to write your own exercises! Although all of the Runestone books have a pretty good selection of exercises, you can never have too many exercises. We hope to crowd source an enormous collection of questions and problems in our Exercise database. You can help by adding custom exercises for your own course to the database! Once your exercise is in the database, it is available for others to find using the search feature on the create assignment page. Community contributed exercises are shown with a person icon instead of a book icon under the source column.

To create new exercises, start or go to any assignment in the Instructor Dashboard "Assignment Builder". In the Exercises section of the assignment, click on "Add Exercise" and select "+ Create New Exercise".

There are many different types of exercises that you can create as shown below. Some of these are discussed further in the sections below.

Here are some examples of these different types of exercises. In the next pages, we will go through the steps to create some of these exercises.

Here is an example Multiple Choice Exercise:

System.out.println(2 + 3 * 5 - 1);

Parsons (Mixed up Code) Problem:

public class Hello
{
---
public Class Hello
{ #paired
---
   public static void main(String[] args)
   {
---
   public static void main()
   { #paired
---
      System.out.println("Hi there!");
---
      System.out.println("Hi there!")
 #paired
---
   }
}

Here is an example of a simple Active Code exercise in Python:

Here is an example of a Drag and Drop matching questions. You can also have Matching questions where you draw lines to match many to many objects.

Clickable Area:

public class Date {

    private int year;
    private int month;
    private int day;

    public Date()
        { /** Implementation not shown */ }

    public Date(int year, int month, int day)
        { /** Implementation not shown */ }

     public void print()
        { /** Implementation not shown */ }

}

Fill in the Blank:

Short Answer

Poll

Select Questions allow the students to choose between already existing questions: