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Variate

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Informational Resources

Variate is an assessment platform for STEM disciplines. Instructors can create numerical and expression free-response problems with:

  • Robust randomization to improve assessment integrity
  • No coding required
  • List, range, and formula-based variables
  • Expression response with equivalence testing
  • In-line LaTeX editor for prompts, variables, and responses
  • Multipart problems
  • Multiple choice questions
  • Set points per problem and part
  • Attempt limits
  • Correct answer feedback options
  • Evaluation with robust math engine
  • Prevention of broken problem display
  • Optional time limit and accommodations
  • Editing of published assessments including re-grading student attempts

Getting Started

Instructors 

  • Creating a Variate Sandbox Course
  • Creating Variate Problems
  • Creating Variate Assessments
  • Editing Published Variate Assessments
  • Variate Integration with Brightspace
  • Deleting and restoring Variate items

Students

  • Variate Student Guide

Resources

Course Management & Assignment Workflow

  • Problem Creation
  • Variate AI Assist

Support Information

Contact 

  • Purdue Information Technology  
  • Weblink: https://it.purdue.edu/help/index.php  
  • Email: it@purdue.edu 
  • Phone: 765-494-4000 (44000 when dialing from a campus phone) 
  • Variate Roadmap

Funding 

  • West Lafayette Central Campus 

  • New Brightspace Tool Integration  
  • Support & Training
  • Request a New Tool
  • Instructional Technology Portfolio Home

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