Maple T.A. now mobile-accessible with support for tablets
New release includes more question types for math-based assessment
Bangalore, INDIA, [October 8, 2014]: Lanika announces today the release of the latest version of Maplesoft’s popular testing and assessment tool, Maple T.A.™. Maple T.A. is a powerful online testing and assessment system designed especially for courses involving mathematics, making it ideal for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) courses. Maple T.A. 10 incorporates customer feedback from students, instructors, and administrators to provide increased scope, usability, and flexibility for testing and assessment in an online environment.
With Maple T.A. 10, all Maple T.A. functionality is now accessible via standard web browsers on both computers and tablets, including iPad®, Android™ tablets, and more. All mathbased features are fully supported on iPads, including standard math notation in questions and responses, as well as the full range of visualization options.
Maple T.A. 10 includes new questions types for technical assessment. With the new sketch question, instructors can ask students to sketch graphs, and Maple T.A. grades those graphs automatically. For instructors in engineering and science, Maple T.A. can now ask questions that require students to draw free body diagrams, and Maple T.A. will grade the result.
In addition, the Math App question type, first introduced as a technology preview, is now fully supported. With gradable Math Apps, instructors can provide students with specialized calculators, ask them to manipulate parameters until they have found the desired solution,give them interactive plots to explore, and much more.
Other enhancements include a completely redesigned interface that incorporates customer feedback from both instructors and students to create a more streamlined workflow; a new equation editor that eliminates the need for browser plug-ins; updates to the connectivity features that allow Maple T.A. to be seamlessly integrated into course management systems such as Blackboard, Moodle, and Brightspace by D2L; and more options for customizing the Maple T.A. interface.
“Maple T.A. 10 is an important step forward for STEM assessment,” says Paul DeMarco, Director of Development for Maple and Maple T.A. “From mobile support for tablets to new question types for math, science, and engineering, to a streamlined, customizable interface, Maple T.A. 10 offers students, instructors, and administrators a powerful environment for testing and assessment that can be integrated into any online course or learning management infrastructure.”
Based on Maple T.A. 10, Maplesoft will shortly be releasing a new version of the Maple T.A. MAA Placement Test Suite, which offers the renowned placement tests from the Mathematical Association of America in the online testing environment of Maple T.A. The latest release takes advantage of the streamlined interface and other new features of Maple T.A. 10, and also includes new testing content to determine if students understand the concepts needs for success in their algebra and precalculus courses.
Maple T.A. 10 is available as both a Maplesoft-hosted or school-hosted solution. Interface translations are available for French, Brazilian Portuguese, Korean, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, and more.
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.
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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.
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