Writing Answers

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• Who can write answers?
• How do I find questions to answer?
• Why should I write an answer?
• Should we use math GIFs in answers? Are they helpful in explaining certain math concepts?
• How do you write matrices on Socratic?
• I'd like to add links to key phrases in my answer (like Link Owl does). Is there an easy way to do that?
• I have a question about how the answer is rendered. I have noticed that many HTML codes seem to work in the preview of the answer but don't appear the final answer. Why are these blocked?
• How far back in time should we be answering questions? Isn't it likely that after 4 or 5 months the person asking the question has gone on to other things?
• Please help. How do you delete an Anwser or a Question that you double posted?
• Is it okay to double post?
• Is it ok to reuse content from other websites in my answers on Socratic?
• Question #c493e
• What are the answering basics someone needs to know when they first join Socratic?
• Is it possible to answer a question referring to the answer of another person BUT giving him the credit? Sometimes there are answers so good and well explained that it is a pity to change them or give a new one.
• Question #1dfe7
• Why do my answers always have an automatic like of my own?
• What benefits do we have for answering questions on Socratic?
• I answer mainly questions in Chemistry, with Algebra sixth in frequency. Yet 48 of the 50 questions in my current Dashboard are from Algebra. Is there a way to filter the questions in the Dashboard according to the responders' interests?
• Can you delete an answer?
• Is it possible to reduce the size of an image imported into Socratic via its URL?
• Question #acefa
• Question #8a7ea
• I use MS Word to compose answers on Socratic. Is there a better way?
• Often an answer that "needs improvement" is accompanied by a second, completely acceptable answer. Improving a defective answer would make it similar to the "good" answer. What to do …?
• Just curious. when somebody copies an answer from an external source do you guys remove the answers or leave the answer like it?
• Is anyone else uneasy about someone posting questions and then answering them in an apparent attempt to publicize his own research e.g. http://socratic.org/questions/what-is-the-new-transforming-method-to-solve-quadratic-equations-1 ?
• Is there a way that I can load a pdf file as an answer to student's questions? And how? I am battling with the mathematical symbols and notations so if I can write by hand on paper and then scan to pdf and upload, that would allow me to answer more quest
• Question #315cf
• How do you answer questions like "How do you graph this function"?
• Are we allowed to add smileys in our answers? Or do we only want serious, straight forward ones?
• How do you treat questions that are either so incomplete or so grammatically incorrect that it is hard to guess the author's intent? Ex. "How does a graph of x vs. y from equation?" Guess? I would feel bad deleting them.
• Is there a way to flag a question so it is easy to find later when it has been answered?
• Question #43ae5
• How do you post a graph in the description of a question on Socratic?
• Duplicating answers in different subject fields?
• Question #f7abd
• What is plagiarism and how does it relate to how I use Socratic?
• How can we be sensitive to the fact that we are teaching people with different backgrounds and from different countries and cultures?
• Question #ed064
• Question #20f52
• What is the connection between a question that has just been asked and the occasional note within the question that someone else asked for an answer some time ago?
• How to go about people seeking medical advice on Socratic?
• What's the procedure of adding a certain image from the web ? Thank you!
• Can we make diagrams for an answer or is it necessary to upload a picture?
• How do you add diagrams and graphs in an answer without having to convert it into a picture format and uploading it that way?
• Is it possible to write an answer without the answer/explanation format? How?
• How do you answer questions that ask you to graph?
• What should we do if two contributors don't agree with an answer on a question?
• How do you write the math signs in Socratic?
• Can I change the categorization of a question after I have written an answer?
• How can I add a picture to an answer when I'm answering over the cell phone?
• How to add pictures and diagrams into a Socratic post to add clarity and interest?
• Why cant we upload more that one pictures on answer? It takes a long time to write coding ,especially while in calculation,we can easily write on paper and upload the picture?
• If you look at the time at which questions are posed, I would expect it to be most common in the evening (homework time) but when are questions most often answered on Socratic?
• How to answer a question you've already answered?
• What should you do if you know part of an answer, but not the whole thing? Should you leave a comment?
• Why do parts of my answer randomly turn blue?
• What does this mean? It constantly pops up when I try to view someones question so that I can answer it.
• Is there a way to edit pictures that other people would, such as drawing on them to show someone what they're missing? Just curious.
• Question #a5502
• How do you write a decimal with a repeating bar over it?
• How do you use the Socratic editor to type synthetic division problems?
• Given how often diagrams / photos etc are used in the best answers, is it possible that the upload could be made one step, so image and pasted link address are uploaded in the same dialogue box?
• Does my name go in top streaks if my streak is really high?
• How can you correct wrong answers from other users?
• Why can't I edit a question after it has been answered?
• Why are answers disappearing from Socratic?
• Will it ever be possible to view unanswered questions for a certain topic?
• Is there a way to plot just one point on the graph feature?
• Suppose one answers a given question, but afterwards if that question is deleted, then all the given answers to that particular questions get deleted too,don't they?
• Is there a way for me to see my most viewed answers?
• A question where my answer was the only one has over 60,000 views. Why is the number of students I have helped much less?