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STACK Professionals' Network: Meeting on 13 November 2025

Patricipants

  • Jonas Lache
  • Matti Harjula
  • Hendrikje Schmidtpott
  • Marcus Green
  • George Ionita
  • Marc Peterfi
  • Stephen Nulty
  • Wigand Rathmann
  • Jesus Copado
  • Ruth Reynolds
  • Santiago Borio
  • Georg
  • Chris Sangwin
  • Juma Zevick
  • Motognon Wastalas Dogbalou
  • Edmund Farrow
  • Konstantina Zerva

Developers Updates

The next Stack release will be at the end of April, to tie in with the next release of Moodle.

Items Discussed

Dashboard redisign:

The STACK Deshboard has been redisigned. This will be available in the summer (June) release. You'll be able to bulk test quizzes just from the STACK dashboard, and that should be open to any user, not only the Administrators. Also, from the Dashboard you will be able to direclty edit the XML of a question. There is information about them in Zulip and Edmund is looking for feedback as to what additional changes he could make and whether these things look useful. All the information on the page itself is now split up into 3 tabs: Tests, Question, Variants. Initially, you get to see the test tab, and we've added in a summary table at the top as well, so you can get a quick look to see whether all the tests have passed, and where exactly they're failing. Question information has its own tab, so you've got the preview of the question and General feedback and you've got the STACK version number. Finally the Variants tab you have all the deployed variants of the question. You can sort the variants by seed or by question note and you can bulk delete selected variants.

Metadata

There are big question banks of STACK questions and now we are looking on ways of seaching though STACK questions and finding questions for specific topics. It would be a good start, if users were able to enter some metadata, just telling us about the question, giving us basic information, like what languages it's in, the topic, what the the license for it is, who made it, who's added to it. Some of this information is automatically generated, like the creator of a question. And then it can be updated by the user, and stored as a JSON object, in the database, and that way it can be easily read by a machine. Edmund demonstrated how to add metadata and which are the ones automatically added and how the users can add more information.

Upcoming Conferences:

STACK conference in Trieste: 27 - 29 of May. The International Meeting of the STACK Community: 27–31 July in Nairobi, Kenya.

New Platform for meetings

We will move to Teams and discuss again if it's not the ideal solution.

How to report mistakes with in questions in the STACK library

For people who have indentified mistakes/issues in the questions in the STACK library, the best place to raise them is on GitHub.

Date for next meeting:

Will investigate if it is possivle to happen hybridly during the STACK conference in Trieste.