Training and Events

We regularly host conferences and training workshops for STACK. On request we can provide demonstration seminars and bespoke initial training: please contact Chris Sangwin or members of the STACK Professionals Network.

STACK seminars

This seminars series will focuss on advanced uses and featues of STACK. Ech of them will last for 1.5 hour and there will be plenty of time for discussions and questions.

Title	Date	Location	Description
Meclib: supporting mechanical systems, Martin Kraska	27 Nov 2025, 15.00 pm GMT (16.00 pm CET)	Online	The objectives of the seminar are to have an overview of Meclib library and see some examples of STACK questions that make use of Meclib.

Forthcoming events

Title	Date	Location	Description
Visualisation Tools for Teaching in STEM	3-7 Nov 2025	Tallinn, Estonia	The objective is to empower STEM educators with the skills to create interactive, visually rich learning materials using mostly JSXGraph, but also trying out Desmos and GeoGebra.

Past events

During 2020 we ran a series of online workshops, with support from the London Mathematical Society, Universitas 21, and the School of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh. Details, and recordings, are online..

A list of past STACK workshops and conferences:

Title	Date	Location	Description
STACK library and other v4.8.1 features	3 Dec 2024	Online (Zoom)	This online talk is to demonstrate the new features in STACK v4.8.1, including the STACK library and "todo" blocks.
OER Design and Use in Mathematics Education	Autumn 2024	TTK, Tallinn	This is a 5 day, on-site, training in developing OER as part of the Gate2Math Erasmus+ project.
Discovering AuthOMath	8 May 2024	University of Cantabria, Santander, Cantabria, Spain	This event will offer insights into innovative teaching approaches and practical applications for secondary and tertiary education mathematics teachers, developed through the AuthOMath project.
AuthOMath multiplier event: using GeoGebra in STACK	27 March 2024	School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh. Online	AuthOMath has enabled us to integrate GeoGebra into STACK. This is a practical workshop for users interested in getting started with this new feature.
International Meeting of the STACK Community 2024	11-13 March 2024	Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule (OTH), Amberg-Weiden, Germany	A forum for all STACK users to exchange experiences, ideas and research topics.
Learning Mathematics : digital and interactive	03 February 2024	Heidelberg University of Education, Germany	This one day digital conference will highlight the outcomes of of the AuthOMath Erasmus+ project.
African STACK Conference for Undergraduate Mathematics	19 - 23 June 2023	Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, Kakamega, Kenya	A conference to enable African educators with experience on STACK to define a roadmap for transformation of African Undergraduate Maths Education
MoodleMoot DACH 2023	13-16 June 2023	ETH Zürich, Switzerland	A DevCamp and a BarCamp for German-speaking Moodle users, with a special track on STACK. English speakers welcome!
International Meeting of the STACK Community 2023	24 - 26 April 2023	Tallinn, Estonia	A forum for all STACK users to exchange experiences, ideas and research topics
The 1st Northern e-Assessment Meeting	31 May - 2 June 2023	Trondheim, Norway uia.no	An informal conference for people interested in e-Assessment in Mathematical Sciences at higher education level
Using JSX graphs in STACK	8 Dec 2022	Hybrid event: The University of Edinburgh, James Clerk Maxwell building and online	This workshop will provide hands-on practise on how to create JSXGraphs and how to use JSXGraph in STACK assessments.
Using STACK to put the "book inside the quiz"	16 Nov 2022	Hybrid event: The University of Edinburgh, James Clerk Maxwell building and online	This workshop discusses how we have used a metaphore of "putting the book inside automatically assessed online quizzes" in a variety of university mathematics courses.
Mathematics STACK Workshop	4th-8th Jul 2022	Maseno University, Kenya	The goal of this workshop is to help lecturers prepare the courses they will be teaching at their institutions using STACK. There will be a parallel session on authoring STACK questions.
EAMS 2022	13 - 24 Jun 2022	Online. eams.ncl.ac.uk	There will be various sessions of interest to STACK users at this conference.
International Meeting of the STACK Community 2022	24-28 Apr 2022	Leoben, Austria unileoben.ac.at/stack22	A forum for all STACK users to exchange experiences, ideas and research topics
EAMS 2021	21 Jun - 2 July 2021	Online. eams.ncl.ac.uk	There will be various sessions of interest to STACK users at this conference.
The 4th International STACK Conference	26-29 Apr 2021	TTK University of Applied Sciences, Tallinn, Estonia stack21.edu.ee Proceedings	This conference aims to act as a forum for the exchange of experience, ideas and research associated with implementing STACK. The target group is academics who teach undergraduate and postgraduate STEM courses in higher education institutions.
EAMS 2020	Week of 22 Jun 2020	Online. eams.ncl.ac.uk	There will be various sessions of interest to STACK users at this conference.
The 3rd International STACK Conference	27 Apr 2020	Online. 3rd International STACK Conference Website	The aim of the conference is to provide a platform for academics, researchers, and scholars, to address common challenges, share knowledge and ideas as well as recent trends and brainstorm creative solutions in the field of STACK.
Putting educational research into practice in HE Mathematics and Statistics teaching	29-30 April 2019	The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK Putting research into practice conference website	Day 1: Putting educational research into practice in HE Mathematics and Statistics teaching. Day 2: The 2nd International STACK Conference.
The 1st International STACK Conference	15-16 Nov 2018	Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Fürth, Germany www.stack-konferenz.de	The mission of the Conference is to offer a forum for the STACK Community, to exchange ideas about possibilities and challenges in creating questions, to get closer to solving technical questions and to shape the future of STACK.