Maplesoft updates Maple TA assessment tool

Maple TA 6 enables significant levels of integration with course-management systems, as well as internationalisation tools and increased performance, offering a smooth, streamlined experience for instructors and students working in these environments.

Maple TA is an easy-to-use web-based system for creating tests and assignments and automatically assessing student responses and performance.

The new version includes a connector to Moodle, a popular open-source course-management system that lets users access Maple TA directly from their Moodle courses.

A new web-services application programming interface (API) provides tools to allow an institution to integrate Maple TA with most course-management systems, including custom-built solutions.

The Maple TA Connector for Blackboard Software has been updated to work with Maple TA 6.

Maple TA 6, in addition to international language support for question content available in earlier versions, now provides a translatable interface so that menus, messages, help and other text seen by instructors and students can appear in the local language.

No programming knowledge is required to create or configure the translation.

The new release also provides significant increases in performance when large amounts of data are involved, and more flexible and efficient tools for managing question content.