May 26, 2006 There will be a hands-on workshop for faculty interested in deploying mapleTA, a web-based, automated testing package. The maple symbolic engine is used to grade questions, but students who interact with the system do not need to know maple, and instructors who design activities for their students in mapleTA do not need to know maple.
MapleTA lets instructors design and manage algorithmic questions and deliver them to students. It permits a wide range of multiple choice, free response and graphing type questions, structured into a variety of formats including quizzes, proctored exams and mastery exercises. More information is available from the
mapleTA web site.
The June 2, 2006, workshop will be a productive session where people will be developing materials while faculty experienced with mapleTA are there to help. The workshop will begin with a quick introduction and overview of MapleTA and how it works. Participants will leave the workshop with the kernel of something useful for their classes and the knowledge to make it grow. Participants should bring course materials such as old exams or homework problem sets that they are interested in automating.
Register online.
May 20, 2006
Of the twenty-seven faculty who submitted entries for the contest, four were selected as winners and three received honorable mention. Congratulations to the winners:
- Susan Evans, Education
- John Peruggia, English
- Anu Sivaraman, Business Administration
- Ralph Begleiter, Communication
Honorable mention went to:
- Sherry Kitto, Plant and Soil Sciecnes, and Lesa Griffiths, Animal and Food Sciences
- Jennifer Lambe, Communication
- Lou Rossi, Mathematical Sciences
Short profiles about each of these faculty projects are available. These faculty members will present their award-winning applications at the Summer Faculty Institute on Tuesday, June 13 from 10:00 am - noon. Register online.
May 2006 News