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Lanika announces latest release of Maple T.A, marking 10th anniversary of the product.

New adaptive questions provide powerful tool for teaching during testing

Bangalore, INDIA, [January 05, 2012]: Maplesoft™, a leader in software products for technical education and research, announced the release of the latest version of its popular testing and assessment tools. Maple T.A.™ was first released as a pilot project in 2002. Ten years later, Maple T.A. and the Maple T.A. MAA Placement Test Suite continue the tradition of providing major advancements to help institutions offer high quality technical education to their students.

Adaptive questions in Maple T.A. 8 give instructors a powerful new tool to improve student comprehension. These questions give extra guidance to students who give an incorrect response to a question, increasing their understanding of the concepts and techniques involved. 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. As a result, adaptive questions give students the opportunity to deepen their understanding without leaving the testing environment, while at the same time giving them partial credit for their efforts.

Maple T.A. 8 also provides a highly secure Proctored Browser, which reduces cheating by ensuring students stay inside the Maple T.A. environment until the test or assignment is completed. While using the Proctored Browser, students cannot access other web sites or programs on their computer. Other security enhancements include the ability to require that Maple T.A. tests are taken from a specified list of IP addresses, to ensure students can take assignments only from approved computers or labs. These and other new Maple T.A. security features are also available in the Maple T.A. MAA Placement Test Suite, for those institutions who want greater security in their placement testing process.

“Maple T.A. has evolved rapidly over the last 10 years, with new question and assignment types, more ways to create, modify, and organize content, a sophisticated gradebook, additional options for integrating Maple T.A. into the rest of your infrastructure, and much more,” says Paul DeMarco, Director of Development for Maple™ and Maple T.A.

“The latest releases of Maple T.A. and the Maple T.A. MAA Placement Test Suite continue the tradition of providing institutions with innovative methods to help them deliver effective, efficient mathematics and technical education to their students.”

About Lanika Solutions

Lanika is Advanced Technical Computing Software Products provider for Engineers and Scientists in Industry, Government and Education. The Company partners with reputed principals developing industry leading solutions that help a wide base of clients throughout the Indian sub-continent solve the toughest engineering problems.

Lanika Solutions partners with reputed principals developing industry leading solutions. Currently, Lanika Solutions is partnered with Maplesoft, Reactive Systems, FEI Visualization Sciences Group (VSG), Breault Research Organization (BRO), ExpertControl and Sigma Technology.

Lanika Solutions product offerings and support reflects the philosophy that given great tools, clients can simplify development, increase productivity, and dramatically reduce time to market. Company’s suites of technical products help clients to quickly solve practical problems within the framework of the premier products and services provided.

The Company’s offerings have been selected as the leading products available to scientists and engineers in their respective application areas. The Company will continue to expand its offerings through organic growth in related technology/market segments as other premium solutions become available.

Visit https://www.lanikasolutions.com to learn more.

About Maplesoft

Maplesoft has provided mathematics-based software solutions to educators, engineers, and researchers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) for over 25 years. Maplesoft’s flagship product, Maple, combines the world’s most powerful mathematics engine with an interface that makes it extremely easy to analyze, explore, visualize, and solve mathematical problems. Building on this technology, the product line includes solutions for online assessment, system-level modeling and simulation, and online STEM courseware. Maplesoft products provide modern, innovative solutions to meet today’s challenges, from exploring math concepts on a smartphone to enabling a model-driven innovation approach that helps companies reduce risk and bring high-quality products to market faster. Maplesoft products and services are used by more than 8000 educational institutions, research labs, and companies, in over 90 countries.

Maplesoft is a subsidiary of Cybernet Systems Group. For further details, please Visit www.maplesoft.com.

For more information, please contact:
Lanika Solutions Pvt. Ltd.,
Mr. Nishath Ahmed
Email: Nishath@lanikasolutions.com
Telephone:+91 – 80 – 2548 4844