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STEM Education

Teach STEM, not just show it

Lecture recordings work for context, but STEM students learn by doing. Interakly puts code editors, equation builders, graphing tools, and auto-graded problems right alongside the video — so students solve, not just watch.

The problem

Passive STEM videos don't build skills

Watching someone solve an equation or write code creates an illusion of understanding. Students nod along, then struggle when they try it themselves. Video alone cannot teach problem-solving.

Watching code being written is not the same as writing it
Students cannot practice math notation in a video player
No feedback loop — mistakes go unnoticed until the exam

The solution

Active problem-solving alongside video

Give students a code editor, equation builder, or graphing tool right next to the lecture. Pause the video with a question, let them work, and auto-grade the result. Learning happens in the doing.

Numeric answers graded on the server, with a tolerance you set
Diagrams students label, explore, and zoom into
Sandboxed interactive labs inside the lesson

Built for every STEM discipline

Computer Science

Drop a sandboxed interactive lab into a lesson — a small HTML and JavaScript mini-app students actually manipulate. Ordering interactions test whether they can put the steps of an algorithm in the right order, and Fill in the Blanks checks syntax.

Mathematics

Numeric Input questions are graded on the server against an accepted tolerance range, so a right answer to three significant figures is still a right answer. Ordering tests the steps of a method, and students can submit worked solutions as a sketch.

Lab Sciences

Label anatomy diagrams, circuit schematics and chemical structures directly on the image. Interactive images let students find every instance of something, compare two regions, and zoom into detail that would be unreadable in a slide.

Physics & Engineering

Auto-grade unit conversions and calculations with a tolerance you set. Ordering interactions check procedural knowledge, and Drawing Submit lets students hand in a free-body diagram for you to review.

Built for STEM

Tools that match the subject

Numeric answers with a tolerance

Set the answer and the accepted range. Every value inside it earns full credit, graded on the server the moment a student submits — no marking problem sets by hand.

Label the diagram

Students drag labels onto the exact part of an image. Every authored label must be placed, and the grading is server-side.

Images students can explore

Turn one diagram into a surface with hotspots, find-all tasks, region comparisons and deep zoom — for the detail a static figure cannot carry.

Sandboxed interactive labs

A small HTML and JavaScript mini-app inside a lesson, running in a network-isolated sandbox. Describe what you want and Interakly drafts one; the source stays editable.

Sketched answers you can mark

Some work is a drawing, not a number. Students submit a sketch and it lands in your review inbox, where your grade updates their score.

Real-time analytics

Per-question breakdowns, completion rates and score distributions the moment students finish. Identify misconceptions early.

Frequently asked questions

Can students write and run code?
Not as a code editor with an execution environment — Interakly does not run student code. What it does have is the interactive lab: a sandboxed HTML and JavaScript mini-app you place inside a lesson, which students manipulate directly. It is good for showing how something behaves; it is not a substitute for an IDE or an autograder.
How are numeric answers graded?
You set the correct answer and a tolerance, and the tolerance is an accepted range rather than a proximity score — every value inside it earns full credit. Grading happens on the server when the student submits, so the answer key never reaches the browser.
Does it render mathematical notation?
There is no equation editor or LaTeX rendering. In practice teachers put the notation in an image — which can then carry hotspots, labels and zoom — and ask for the result as a numeric answer with a tolerance.
How do I assess work on a diagram?
Two ways. Label Image asks students to place every authored label on the right part of the picture, and it is graded automatically. For anything freehand — a free-body diagram, a mechanism sketch — Drawing Submit collects it for you to mark in the review inbox.
Does it work with YouTube lecture recordings?
Yes. You can add compatible timestamped interactions to supported public or unlisted YouTube videos that allow embedding. Spatial interactions such as hotspots need an addressable frame, so upload your own MP4 when you want those or owned-media captions.
Is it free for teachers?
Yes — every feature is free during early access. Unlimited video uploads, up to 40 minutes each. No credit card required, no expiration.

Make STEM video hands-on

Free to start. No credit card. Works with YouTube or your own uploaded videos.