Introduction to LibreTexts: What is Adapt?

Adapt is LibreTexts' "Adaptive Learning Assessment System". It is both a question repository with over 1,900 questions and an online homework platform that can be set up to tie into your grade book.

Adapt requires two things:

1. You need to be a Verified Instructor (see the tab on creating your account)
2. You need to create a separate Adapt account

After logging into adapt and creating an account, you will have to wait until your account can be set up and verified. While LibreTexts is more open, they want to keep Adapt secure and limited to faculty to help combat the questions ending up on public websites where students can get the answers, etc.

ADAPT has a number of useful features and is currently heavily used by STEM and Spanish:

• 1,900+ questions in their question banks across different disciplines
• Tools to build questions including features for auto-grading and gradebook integration
• ADAPT includes features from multiple homework systems and tools (including IMathAS, Webwork, H5P, and LMS-QTI). This allows it to use more features than a singular tool like MyMathLab.
• Includes formative and summative questions.
• Questions can be embedded in textbooks.
• Adaptive learning capabilities to allow students to guide their learning experience.

Upcoming features include a mobile app that will allow in-class poling (similar to using clickers), virtual cell dissection, and work to facilitate ChatGPT to assist with grading lab reports and English composition.

ADAPT includes two broad types of assessment questions:

• AutoGraded Questions via WebWork, IMathAS, Native (LMS QTI), and H5P.
  • WebWork is primarily for algorithmic and computational evaluation
  • IMathAS is the technology behind MyOpenMath and Ohm (Lumen Learning's homework platform)
  • H5P is built for more graphical-oriented questions
• Open-Ended Questions via Rich Text, Plain Text, Audio, or File submissions.

ADAPT uses these independent technologies (WebWork, IMathAS, etc), to provide you with a wider array of tools and functions, but then works to centralize some of how they work to make it easier to learn and utilize these very different tools.

With ADAPT, students can access assessments on their phones and ADAPT provides its own mobile app. It can also be used to collect and view responses of the entire class live; useful for labs and collaborative projects.

ADAPT is designed for multi-modal use. Students can interact with problems via a traditional Assigment/Question approach or via an adaptive Learning Tree approach (shown below) that enables individualized assessment and learning (the assessments presented change based on student performance; and/or offering remediation for poor performance).

ADAPT's infrastructure is built into Courses, Assignments, and Questions. Questions are housed within Assignments and Assignments are housed within Courses. ADAPT also places all non-private Questions into a library, allowing you to search and find other instructor's questions to use in your course. You can duplicate and modify any Course, Assignments, or Question for use in your own course.

Many ADAPT questions also have the option to build in accessibility alternatives, such as having alternative options for an assignment that normally requires vision (such as a graphical map).