Overview

How Stackle is structured:

• Organisations — your top-level account. Manage members and roles, create workspaces, configure LMS integrations, and control platform-wide settings including branding, terminology, activity types, and student consent.
• Workspaces — shared spaces where teams organise stacks. Add team members as Leaders or Members, manage student access, and create as many stacks as you need within each workspace.
• Stacks — the core containers for your learning content. Each stack has its own team, cohorts, activities, collections, pools, questions, and analytics. Use them for your courses, programs, training modules, or any learning initiative.
• Cohorts — an offering or instance of a stack, typically representing a semester or intake. Each cohort has its own activities, collections, questions, pools, and pathways. Link cohorts to your LMS courses for automatic enrolment, and duplicate them to carry content forward between semesters while preserving existing responses.
• Pools — containers for questions. Organise questions by topic, week, difficulty, or any grouping that suits your content. Questions can be added into multiple activities, and any updates automatically apply everywhere a question is used.
• Questions — where students engage and respond within your activities. Stackle supports four question types: Open Text for written responses, Multiple Choice for selecting one option, Multiple Select for choosing one or more options, and Media Response for uploading images or audio recordings and video embeds. Attach stimuli like images, video, or files for context, connect questions to display a student's previous response alongside a new prompt, and configure settings such as availability, supplementary input, additional content and export.
• Collections — named groupings that organise your activities within a stack. Every stack starts with a default collection called "Standalone Activities". Create additional collections to categorise by week, topic, or type. Collections also appear in analytics, so you can view response data per collection.
• Activities — interactive learning experiences that capture student responses. Each activity is built from questions (pulled from your pools), content elements (headings, text, images, video, audio, embeds), and a activity type that controls behaviour, appearance, and response settings. Activities can be embedded directly into your LMS content and assignments. Use them for reflections, assignments, journals, checklists, and any activity that benefits from capturing student responses over time.
• Pathways — a way of grouping activities into a structured sequence. Each pathway tracks student progress across its activities. Embed pathways in your LMS just like individual activities.

Stackle integrates with Learning Management Systems via LTI 1.3, allowing you to embed activities and pathways directly into course learning content and connect them to assignments for marking and feedback.