# Ideal Features of Online Homework Platform?

Mathematics Educators Asked by Opal E on January 6, 2022

If you could build an ideal online homework platform for mathematics, what combination of features should it have in order to be effective at levels from high school through undergraduate, and why? Please post what features an ideal, effective online homework platform would have for use in math class at a high school to undergraduate level. Ideally, you would support why those features are important, with some theoretical (education theory or mathematical) or practical reasoning.

This question is not asking about whether online homework or paper homework should be used. Nor is it asking about existing homework platforms. I think that this makes the question unique on this site.

I am not posting this for my own market research purposes – I think it is fairly clear from my history here that I teach classes and do not have any incentive or energy to create such a platform. Instead, noting the glut of bad online platforms, I hope to combine our collective knowledge here in a publicly visible arena, in hopes that people who do attempt to create these platforms have an easily accessible list of must-haves, with at the very least keywords that point towards research support.

Best answer will be awarded to the most complete list with meaningful reasons for each item. I do plan to answer this question myself when time allows.

Some example features that are in my personal list of ideals, with my reasoning being "practical purposes" and/or research-supported tactics italicized:

• Must be able to select problem sets from an easy-to-navigate problem bank, for practical purposes (teachers should not spend too much time searching for problems to assign).
• Must be able to randomize the numbers in each problem, for practical purposes (students can work together on the same problem but still have to do their own work).
• Should identify commonly-confused concepts and have pre-made problem sets contrasting the types of problems for interleaving purposes.
• Should make it easy for the teacher to promote spaced repetition (e.g. when creating a problem set, it could auto-suggest problems similar to two problems from the previous week and one problem from two weeks before).

## Related Questions

### Ideal Features of Online Homework Platform?

0  Asked on January 6, 2022 by opal-e

### Intuition or geometry for Partial Fractions

2  Asked on December 28, 2021

### Impressive common misleading interpretations in statistics to make students aware of

20  Asked on November 22, 2021 by markus-klein

### Generating system of equations with unique solutions

2  Asked on November 17, 2021

### Ideas for explaining 4D and higher dimensions

11  Asked on September 6, 2021

### Concrete way to teach addition and subtraction of fractions

5  Asked on September 6, 2021

### What are some of the open problems that can be suitably introduced in a calculus course?

4  Asked on September 6, 2021 by zuriel

### The use of “$therefore$” and “$because$”

2  Asked on September 6, 2021

### When do college students learn rigorous proofs?

11  Asked on September 6, 2021 by user13395

### Why is a translated exponential function considered an exponential function?

4  Asked on September 6, 2021 by eleven-eleven

### Is there a literature database like MathSciNet for Mathematics Education?

1  Asked on September 6, 2021

### How to deal with a talented 11-year-old pupil?

8  Asked on September 6, 2021 by welshgandalf

### Teaching math long distance

3  Asked on September 6, 2021 by tkowal

### Why do some students struggle so much with fractions?

4  Asked on September 6, 2021 by timothy

### Are there any proofs of Euler’s Formula that do not rely on calculus?

8  Asked on September 6, 2021 by madscientist

### How do I show students the Beauty of Mathematics?

18  Asked on September 6, 2021 by axel-tong

### How rigorous should high school calculus be?

6  Asked on September 6, 2021 by a-goodier

### Future way of learning mathematics (towards graduate level)

2  Asked on September 6, 2021 by nothing

### Workbooks for advanced high school math topics

2  Asked on September 6, 2021

### Math Education for Students who use Right-to-Left Written Languages

2  Asked on September 6, 2021 by ari

### Ask a Question

Get help from others!