Quick Start Tutorial

Writing Your First DoenetML Document

DoenetML is an easy way to author interactive math activities for the web. In the next few minutes this guide will show you how to make a math assessment that can give your students instant feedback.

Here is an example math question with a place for students to type in and check their answers. Go ahead and answer the question and check your work.

Now lets look at the DoenetML you need to write to make this question.

Simplify
<math>3 / 3 + 3</math>
<answer symbolicEquality>4</answer>

Now lets look at the DoenetML you need to write to make this question.

Simplify
<math>3 / 3 + 3</math>
<answer symbolicEquality>4</answer>

Test code here.

Markup Languages

DoenetML documents are written in plain text; the language is similar to HTML. The parts of the document that are written like <math> and <answer> are called tags. Tags allow you to create everything in your document that isn’t just regular written text. Just like HTML, tags are denoted with angle brackets, < and >. The closing tag includes an extra slash.

Note that the DoenetML code is written on 3 lines, but the rendered version of the question is shown all on 1 line. It can be helpful to break up complex parts of your document onto separate lines to make the code easier to read, and by default this won’t move your content onto a new line. If you want to make a new line in the document you can put some of the content in a paragraph <p> tag.