Möbius Ideas

For Mobius users who are not used to the American date format 04/02/2019 is read as fourth of February even though it is April second. Currently the date format is MMDDYYYY, however in Europe the common date format is DDMMYYYY. Thus the date of ...

The big advantage of Mobius is having random variables in the question, so that students get given different questions. However, when it comes to picking those random variables, Mobius has a habit of choosing pretty much the same ones for quite a ...

Students can show the steps that they took to arrive at the answer, and they will have feedback as to whether each step is correct (by determining if it is algebraically equivalent to either the question or the answer). The previous steps (studen...

The LTI grade push times out after 300 minutes of failed attempts. My suggestions are: Periodically try the push again for several days after a failed push attempt, since 300 minutes is not always long enough to account for server communication...

I am just correcting an exam.The files that the students uploaded have the names the students gave them.Most of the time these names are not very useful.I wrote myself a script for renaming them.I would prefer if Möbius would automatically rename ...

In the content repository, the 'all content types' option doesn't mean all content types, only questions-and-texts. The name should be changed to reflect that. The menu item should also have an icon next to it, like the others do. Currently it lo...

Some characters (unicode) can't be used in answers. The 'Maple graded' box ignores these characters if you try to type them. The 'maths formula' box will tell you there is a problem with the characters if you preview the response, but still allows...

Sometimes one of the two sets of objects in a matching question has a natural order, and it is confusing to have them appear in a random order. It would be good to have the option of fixing the order of one of the two sets.

The default spacing in the sorting questions can make the text hard to read. The CSS .ui-sortable-handle {padding: 10pt; white-space: normal;} and .sorting {max-width: 100%;} formats the text suitably.

There should be an option to arrange a sorting question vertically rather than horizontally, to allow for sorting longer objects such as lines of a proof. This can be created with the CSS .ui-sortable-handle {display: block}