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Content Authoring and Maple T.A.Louise Krmpotic,

Director Business Development and Content Authoring

October 22 – 24, 2014 • Amsterdam, NL

2014 Maple T.A. User Summit… Transforming testing and assessment

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• Content team at Maplesoft• Overview of available content• How you can get involved

Agenda

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• Located in our head office in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

• Background of team members– Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) in mathematics,

physics, chemistry and engineering– Teaching experience– Technology experts

• Scalable for any size of project

Content Team

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• Publisher contracts• External partnerships and contracts• Support for our products– New features– Existing products and features

Mandate of the Content Team

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Created by several sources:• Internally by Maplesoft • Through a joint project between Maplesoft

and an instructor, an institution, or a company

• Individually by our users

Content Overview

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• New for Maple T.A. 10– Sketching (309 questions)– Free Body Diagrams – Electricity and Magnetism,

Mechanics (118 questions)– HTML 5

• Additional content– Adaptive Questions and Assignments– Developmental Mathematics (192 questions)

• Decimals and percents, integers and fractions, linear equations and inequalities, algebraic expressions, polynomials and factoring

Maple T.A. Content – Maplesoft Created

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• MITACS project with U of Guelph– Courses in Physics, Economics, Calculus,

Statistics• OpenUW with U of Waterloo• Building Better Math with BCIT• Placement Test Suite with the

Mathematical Association of America (MAA)

Maple T.A. Content – Joint Projects

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• Maple T.A. Cloud– Variety of disciplines: Calculus, Linear Algebra,

Chemistry, and more– Several languages: English, French, German

• Full course material – available from Mapleprimes or the Maple T.A. Cloud– Courses from the MITACS project (U of Guelph)– Calculus (U of Guelph, Keele U)– Statistics (U of Waterloo)

Maple T.A. Content – User Created

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• Connect with other users– Mapleprimes– Events, such as this conference

• Share your content– In Maple T.A. directly (Maple T.A. Cloud)– On Mapleprimes– Through Maplesoft

How You Can Get Involved

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• There is a lot of content currently available• We have a great community of users who

have created large amounts of content

• Together, we can continue to build both the community and the amount, depth and breadth of content available

Summary and Q&A

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