User manual MAPLESOFT MAPLE T.A.

[. . . ] 2009 No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transcribed, in any form or by any means -- electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise. Information in this document is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of the vendor. The software described in this document is furnished under a license agreement and may be used or copied only in accordance with the agreement. It is against the law to copy the software on any medium except as specifically allowed in the agreement. [. . . ] In the Review & Finish tab, click the highlighted link in the category to be changed. A prompt appears asking whether to return to the tab where the option is set. Finishing an Assignment To accept and publish the assignment you have created or modified: · Click Finish in the Review & Finish tab. You are returned to the Assignment Editor list of assignments for your class, where your new assignment is displayed in the list of all class assignments. Assignment Status Consider the following information regarding your assignment status. · If you have scheduled the assignment for immediate availability, your new assignment is available for students in the Class Homepage. · The system does not save partially completed assignments until you click Finish in the Review & Finish tab of the Assignment Editor. If you begin to create an assignment and then abandon it without clicking Finish, your additions and changes are lost. If you need to leave the Assignment Editor without finishing the assignment, it is recommended that you mark the assignment as hidden so that students cannot access it. Hide assignments from student view in the Class Homepage by hovering the mouse over the assignment name in the class assignment list, and then clicking hide. · If the server shuts down before you click the Finish button, your editing changes will be lost. When the server restarts, it uses the last saved version of your assignment data. To reduce the risk of this during long assignment editing sessions, it is recommended that you periodically click the Finish button, then select your assignment from the main Assignment Editor list of assignments to start a new editing session. 4. 7 Special Cases Deleting Assignments You can select and delete assignments in the main Assignment Editor window. If there are grades associated with an assignment, and you rename 52 · or delete the assignment, a copy is made. Also, results continue to be available through individual student records. Shared Assignments: Saving Your Changes Inheritance has changed slightly so that now you only inherit the content (groupings of questions and their weightings). When you edit an inherited assignment, only the options in the policy tab can be changed. Assignments can still be copied to make a local assignment that can then be fully edited. 5 Gradebook 5. 1 Overview Maple T. A. The Gradebook stores information for each student, such as the assignment start time, the time spent on the assignment, and the individual assignment question performance. The Gradebook allows you to: · View, analyze, and report scores and statistics for students, assignments, and question items · Review and edit student results · Create reports organized by student, assignment, or by question · Export grades to comma-delimited, Microsoft® Excel, or XML files To access the Gradebook: · From the Class Homepage, click Gradebook and select Open. 5. 2 Gradebook Views The Gradebook provides three views of assignment data: by student, by assignment, and by assignment item or question. · To view the grades for an assignment, select an assignment in the search panel and select Submit. The results are displayed below the Search and View panels. 53 54 · · To view summary statistics for each assignment, click the link to a particular assignment in the student results table. From this view, you can see summary statistics for each question on an assignment. [. . . ] Can contain any combination of text, MathML, HTML, tables, or references to images or objects. Must conform to the system formula and variable syntax. algorithm Optional No 11. 3 Question Fields · 131 Table 30: Maple T. A. <field name> answer Required or optional Can include HTML or MathML?Field Type Description/ Function Required No (except in essay, matching, and Maple-graded questions) Optional Required (in Maple-graded questions) Optional No No Internal directive Defines correct answer for use in grading. [. . . ]