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New versions of Maple T.A. and the Maple T.A. MAA Placement Test Suite are now available. Highlights include:

- Adaptive questions provide students another chance when they give an incorrect response. Knowing the student is having trouble, the question can be adapted to walk the student through the problem one step at a time, allow students to try a simpler version of the same question before retrying the original, or whatever the instructor feels is appropriate. 

This should be astonishingly simple as a MapleGraded question but it stubbornly refuses to agree with me.  Everything is marked incorrect ... one wishes for some feedback from MapleTA as to what is going on.

Student enters a vector.  The goal is to have the dot product with <5,3,1> to be whatever value is chosen for $p, which is in the $ANSWER field:

$m:=<5,3,1>;
$d:=LinearAlgebra:-DotProduct($m,$RESPONSE);
is(($d-$p)=0);

We have MapleTA installed on our own server and would like to edit the Login page so that students realize they are on OUR MapleTA page ... students are not particularly observant (no, really!) and often try to login at any MapleTA site they find on the internet.  There is nothing in the UserGuide on editing either the Login or Class pages.

Thanks!

Ive tried this for hours and can't get it to work. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I need to 

find a 10 significant figure approximation to the 10^th derivative of

evaluated at x = -2.

Ive tried using this maple command:

evalf(subs(x=-2,diff((sin((x^2...

Please explain details of the fmt string in the mapleta function numfmt.  The help page only says

Returns the value of x, formatted according to the template fmt.

 For example,

 numfmt("#.00", 20.9)

I have a mapleTA question that blocks students from starting a mastery assignment until I tell them how to do the problem. But some students are gaming it but finding out the problem from an earlier section. I want to game back by making the answer change depending on the wall clock, that is the section they are in. To do so, I need a clock function to tell the time. Since I can call maple inside mapleTA, a maple solution will also work.

Maple T.A.  7 and Maple T.A. MAA Placement Test Suite 7 are now available.

Maple T.A. 7 provides new options for analyzing grades and gaining a deep understanding of how students are performing, including:

• Instructors can view all responses to an assignment question, to easily look for patterns
• The grading scheme for the entire course can be defined inside Maple T.A., with appropriate weightings and flexible policies for dealing with missed, repeated, and worst assignments...

Important new updates are now available for Maple T.A. 6.  These updates improve performance and stability in areas related to the gradebook, assignment editor, question repository, course module import, and Blackboard and MapleNet integration.

In addition to these improvements, Maplesoft has also released language packs for French and Traditional Chinese. These language packs are a result of the new translatable interface in Maple T.A. 6. If your institution requires...

Hi,

I've recently started creating questions using MapleTA, and at the moment I've hit a stumbling block.

For a particular question, the students need to enter a formula. When I input the answer in decimal form, the question is graded correctly; when I put it in fractional form, it's not. I've used the simplify command in every perturbation I know, but I can't get it to work.

More details:

Algorithm

A new version of the Maple T.A. MAA Placement Test Suite is now available.  The latest release includes a new Calculus Concepts Readiness Test, based on modern research into calculus assessment. It also includes performance improvements when dealing with large student populations, and tools for integration with Moodle™ and other course management systems. To learn more, visit What’s New in PTS 6

I'm just getting started with Maple TA (version 5). Playing with making plots based on algorithmic variables.

I would like to choose 2 random variable to use as x and y values...

$a=range(-5,5,1);
$b=range(-5,5,1);

...and plot the point defined by ($a,$b).

I can plot a function using this command...

$plot1=plotmaple("plot($a*x+$b,x=-10..10,y=-10..10)");

Hello,

I have an issue while permanently deleting students from the system, the MapleTA 4.0 enviroment report this error:

An unknown error occurred when uploading the roster file: "com.maplesoft.mapleta.persistence.service.profiles.exception.ProfileServiceProviderException: org.hibernate.exception.ConstraintViolationException: could not execute update query". Please see the roster.log file for more details. 

What has happened to the TA forum? Are questions now deliberately mixed with those for Maple? Is it possible to filter and somehow recover the TA forum?

Many thanks

Maple T.A. 6 is now available. It includes connectivity with Moodle™, a popular open source course management system. It also includes a new web services API, so you can integrate TA with other course management systems, include custom-built solutions. And of course, the Maple T.A. Connector for Blackboard Software® has also been updated to work with Maple T.A. 6. Other new features include a translatable interface for international language support, increased performance, and an enhanced question repository.

I have been using MapleTA for some years and very occasionally a student wil do something which results in him/her not being able to login. On login an error message looking something like the one pasted below occurs. In every other respect and for all other users, TA is running fine. As an administrator, I cannot find a way of resetting this user account. I have used a workaround in the past of creating another user but this is unsatisfactory for large student numbers. Has anyone else experienced this issue? Is there a common cause? Is there a way to reset the student's account?