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MAPLE TA 10.0 USER GUIDE CENTER FOR SCIENCE, MATHEMATICS, & COMPUTER EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN

TABLE OF CONTENTS

What’s New in Maple T.A. 10.0 ......................................................................................... 3

The Good ....................................................................................................................... 3

The Bad .......................................................................................................................... 5

Basic Walkthrough ............................................................................................................. 6

Create a Maple TA Class (Blackboard) ........................................................................... 6

Create a Maple TA Class (Canvas) .................................................................................. 8

Create a Question Group ............................................................................................. 11

Create a Multiple Choice Question .............................................................................. 12

Preview a New Question ............................................................................................. 15

Create a Question Using the Question Designer ......................................................... 18

Create a Homework/Quiz Assignment......................................................................... 22

Try Out a New Assignment .......................................................................................... 25

Add Assignment Link to LMS (Blackboard) .................................................................. 26

Add Assignment Link to LMS (Canvas) ......................................................................... 28

Question Repository ........................................................................................................ 31

Create a Multiple Choice Question with Graphics ....................................................... 31

Assigning Groupless Questions to a Question Group .................................................. 34

Where can I find questions that haven’t been assigned to a question group? ........ 34

How do I assign a “Groupless” Question to a question group? ............................... 34

Assignments .................................................................................................................... 36

Create a Proctored Exam ............................................................................................. 36


Copy an Assignment .................................................................................................... 37

Provide Extra Time to a Student Served by SSD ........................................................... 40

Give a Student an Additional Attempt at an Assignment ............................................ 40

Extend the Deadline for All Students ........................................................................... 40

Extend the Deadline for Some Students ...................................................................... 40

Gradebook ....................................................................................................................... 41

Force-Grading .............................................................................................................. 41

Manual Grading (By Question) .................................................................................... 43

Manually Exporting Scores to LMS (Canvas) ................................................................ 48

Course Modules ............................................................................................................... 50

Create and Export a Course Module ............................................................................ 50

Import a Course Module into a New Class ................................................................... 53

Maple T.A. 10.0 User Guide What’s New in Maple T.A. 10.0 |3


WHAT’S NEW IN MAPLE T.A. 10.0

THE GOOD

The Equation Editor no longer uses Java, so you and your students will no longer

have to deal with annoying security prompts. Unfortunately, Clickable Image Map

questions still use Java, but it seems likely that Maple TA will eventually do away

with Java altogether.

Updated interface:

Collapsible page sections. This button will collapse/hide its associated

section, and this button will expand/show its associated section. The value of

this is dubious. If an errant mouse click causes part of your page to disappear,

look for a button and click it.

Fewer mouse clicks. Question creation in particular is no longer split between

multiple pages. This should make question creation easier, as you will spend less

time waiting for pages to load.

Multiple Choice and Multiple Selection questions now provide a basic text editor

for each answer option, making it easier to format answer text, use graphics as

answers, and use mathematical expressions in answers.



Easier assignment navigation.

Rubrics:

Question Designer now offers Sketch and Free Body Diagram question types



THE BAD

Maple TA 10’s move away from Java is the primary reason we chose to upgrade at this

time. Some browsers either have discontinued or will be discontinuing support for the

cross platform plugin architecture upon which the Java plugin relies. And even apart

from this, Java applets have become a big pain to use, what with all the security

warnings Java makes users click through.

Fortunately, Maple TA only uses Java for a couple things: the Equation Editor and

Clickable Image Maps. If you don’t use either of these—and most of you don’t—then

you haven’t had to deal with any Java-related frustrations. But for those of you who use

the Equation Editor (or create questions that students can answer using the Equation

Editor), the switch to Maple TA 10 should be welcome. (The Clickable Image Map,

unfortunately, has not yet ditched Java, so Maple TA 10 is not yet completely Java-free.)

The problem is that we had wanted to delay the upgrade to version 10 because there

are a couple of things about it we don’t like. Here they are…

In previous versions of Maple TA, the question creation process would conclude

with a page that would instruct users to select a question group for the new

question. Maple TA 10 does conclude the question creation progress with a page

on which users can assign the new question to a question group, but users are

not prompted to do this. Therefore, users are bound to at least occasionally

forget to assign new questions to question groups. This will cause some

frustration, but it’s not a fatal mistake. In this guide, I provide instructions for

locating “groupless” questions and assigning them to a question group.

The bigger problem with Maple TA 10 is that it does not provide feedback during

manual grading. In version 9.5, when you enter a new score for a question and

then click the save button, a progress bar shows you that the new score is being

saved, and then you see the recorded score update to the new score. In version

10, nothing happens when you click the save button. Or rather, the score is

saved, but nothing happens to let you know that it’s been saved. Therefore, later

in this guide you can find instructions for an approach to manual grading that will

make it less of a nightmare.

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BASIC WALKTHROUGH

CREATE A MAPLE TA CLASS (BLACKBOARD)

1. Log into Blackboard (my.unl.edu)

2. Select your class

3. In the course menu on the left, under Control Management, click Course Tools

4. Click Maple T.A. Instructor Menu

You do not need to enroll

students in your Maple T.A. class



6. Select *DEFAULT TEMPLATE* and click OK

Once your Maple TA class has been created, steps 3 and 4 will take you to that class.



CREATE A MAPLE TA CLASS (CANVAS)

1. Log into Canvas

2. Select your class

3. In the course menu, click Assignments; if the menu isn’t visible, click the Menu

button

4. Click the red +Assignment button

5. For the Assignment Name, type “Maple TA Instructor Menu”

6. For Submission Type, select external tool



7. Click in the box underneath External Tool URL

8. Click Maple TA and then click the Select button

9. Select Load This Tool In A New Tab

10. Click the Save button



11. Click the Load Maple TA Instructor Menu in a new window button

12. In the new browser window, click the New Class button

13. On the following screen, all required information will be automatically filled in for

you; click the Submit button to create a Maple TA class using these values and

return to the previous screen

14. In the Class Mapping section, double-check that the correct class (the one you

just created, which should have the same name as your Canvas class) is selected

15. Click Link to Class Home

16. Click the OK button on the warning dialog; the

warning can be disregarded because you will not

be publishing this link and therefore students

will not be using it to take their Maple TA

assignments

Now that you have created a Maple TA class and

a link to it, you can access it (to create questions,

assignments, check grades, etc.) by going to the

Assignments page and clicking Maple TA

Instructor Menu.

All of your Maple TA classes

will be displayed here, but it is

strongly recommended that

you create a new Maple TA

class for each Canvas class.



CREATE A QUESTION GROUP

In previous versions of Maple TA, at the end of the question creation process users were

prompted to assign the new question to a question group (and could create the

question group if it hadn’t already been created). In Maple TA 10, although users will

certainly have the opportunity to assign each new question to a question group on the

View Question page (which is displayed at the end of the question creation process),

they are not expressly prompted to do so, and they will not be able to create new

question groups on this page.

Therefore, in Maple TA 10 it’s important to first create some question groups before

creating any new questions.

1. In the main menu, click Questions

2. Click the New Group button

3. Type a name for the new group

4. Click Save

5. To create a subgroup within a group, click the desired group’s menu button and then click Add Child Group

Course modules can now

accommodate unlimited

nesting of question groups.

Therefore, you are free to

organize your questions any

way you see fit.



CREATE A MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1. Click Questions

2. Click New Question

3. Click Multiple choice

4. In the Question Name field, type a short but descriptive name for this question; alternatively you could copy and paste the question text into this field

Generic question names (e.g.

“Question 15”) will make it

difficult to find a specific question



5. In the Question Text field, type the text of the question (e.g., “What is 2 + 2?”)

6. In the Choices for the answers section, enter the text of your answers (e.g., “3”, “4”, “5”)

7. Select the correct answer by clicking its radio button (e.g., “4”)

8. In the Change the order of the choices? section, choose Yes if you want the answers displayed in random order, and choose No if you want your answers to be displayed in the order that they appear on this screen

The Maple T.A. Question Editor offers basic formatting options for the

question text. The editor also allows you to insert graphics, create tables, and

format mathematical expression.

If an answer needs to refer to other answers (e.g., “Both A and B are true”),

you will need to type the answer labels as part of the answer text (e.g., “A)

red”, “B) blue”, etc.) since Maple TA does not label the answers



9. Click Finish

10. On the next screen, under Groups, click the Edit button

11. Navigate to and select the desired question group(s)

12. Click the Done button

You will be able to see how many times each answer was selected (in the

Maple TA Gradebook) only if you do not randomize the answer order

If you label the answers (which must be done manually: see the note on the

previous page) or the last answer is “all of the above”, don’t randomize the

answer order; alternatively, use the Question Designer question type, which

allows you to randomize the order of some answers while fixing the order of

others

You may occasionally forget to put new questions into a question group. When

this happens, see How do I assign a "Groupless" Question to a question group?



PREVIEW A NEW QUESTION

Upon creating a new question, you will be shown that question’s View Question page. This page, which you can see an example of below, provides many details and settings for the question.

One of the most important parts of the View Question page is that it displays the question and gives you the opportunity to try it out.



To try (aka “preview”) a new question from the View Question page:

1. Click the Preview button

2. Enter or select an answer

3. Click the Grade button



4. Click the Back button to try the question again

5. Click the Close button to close the question preview window

6. If your question uses algorithms, you can generate a different version of the question by clicking the Refresh button

7. Take note of whether your answer was evaluated correctly; edit the question to fix any problems that you discover



CREATE A QUESTION USING THE QUESTION DESIGNER

The Question Designer question type is the preferred question type. Question Designer

questions are a more flexible and extensible form of free response questions, which can

include multiple question types and response areas. They are especially useful when you

want to ask multiple questions based on a common set of information: for example, a

photo, a graph, or a table of data.

In the example below, we will create a Question Designer question that asks multiple

questions about George Washington.

1. In the Maple TA menu, click Questions

2. Click New Question

3. Click Question Designer

4. In the Question Name field, type a short but descriptive name for this question

(e.g., “George Washington”)

5. In the Question Text section write your multiple choice question (e.g., “In what

year did George Washington become president of the United States?”)

6. Press the Enter key



7. Click the Insert/edit response area button

8. Click Multiple Choice

9. Assign a weight to the question (e.g., “1”)

10. In each text box write a possible answer to your question (e.g., “1788”, “1789”,

“1790”), then click OK

11. Select the correct answer (e.g., “1789”) and click OK



12. Press the Enter key twice, type your next question (e.g., “What year was George

Washington born?”), then add another response area

13. This time click Numeric

14. Assign a weight to the question (e.g., “1”)

15. In the Numeric Part box, type the answer to your question (e.g., “1732”) and

then click OK

16. Press the Enter key twice, type a question to which students will type a short

answer or essay response (e.g., “Was George Washington a better general or a

better president?”), then insert a new response area



17. Click Essay

18. Assign a weight to your question (e.g., “5) and click OK

19. Click Finish

Response weighting can be tricky. Be sure you consider whether some response areas

should be weighted more heavily than others. In the above example, the essay response

has been given a weighting of 5 because typing a paragraph is harder than selecting an

answer from a list. Also, you will need to consider response weightings when you create

your assignments, because if a question’s response weightings add up to, say, 7, you will

probably want it to assign the question a point value that’s a multiple of 7. And because

Maple TA won’t remind you of your response areas’ weightings when you are assembling

your assignments in the Assignment Editor, a good strategy is to type a question’s total

weighting as a part of its name. In the above example, after creating the question we could

change its name from “George Washington” to “George Washington (7)”.



CREATE A HOMEWORK/QUIZ ASSIGNMENT

1. In the Maple TA menu, click Assignments, then click Assignments in the drop-

down menu

2. Click New assignment

3. Type the assignment name

4. Click the Select Questions tab



5. Using the question group tree on the left, navigate to the desired questions

6. Click the Select all button

7. Click the Add as Items button at the bottom of the list of questions

8. Assign points to each question with +/- buttons or by typing in a value



9. Click the Set Policies tab

10. Under type of assignment, click Homework or Quiz. Homework/Quiz

assignments aren’t proctored and can be taken anywhere.

11. Set assignment properties and feedback. Here are the only policies you should

need to change:

Max number of tries

Time limit

Start/end date/time

Restrict feedback until

12. Click the Review & Finish tab

13. Click Finish



TRY OUT A NEW ASSIGNMENT

1. In the Maple TA menu, click the name of your class to go to the class homepage

2. Click the name of the new assignment

3. Answer the first question, click Next to proceed

4. When all questions have been answered, click the Submit Assignment button



ADD ASSIGNMENT LINK TO LMS (BLACKBOARD)

1. Return to your Blackboard class by clicking the Home icon

2. If you need to create a new content area for your Maple TA assignment links,

mouse-over the + above your class menu, click Content Area, type the desired

name, make it available to users (if you choose not to make it available at this

time, you will need to remember to make it available later), and click Submit

3. Click the content area in which you want to create the link to your new Maple TA

assignment (e.g. “Assignments”)



4. Turn EDIT MODE on

5. Mouse-over Tools and click Add Maple T.A. Assignment

6. Select the desired assignment and click Submit

7. Click OK



ADD ASSIGNMENT LINK TO LMS (CANVAS)

1. Return to your Canvas class

2. In the class menu, click Assignments

3. Click the red +Assignment button

4. Type the assignment name into the box

5. Set Points to the number of points the assignment is worth

6. Under Submission Type, select External Tool



7. Under External Tool Options, click the Find button

8. Select Maple TA and then click the Select button

9. Click the checkbox for Load This Tool In A New Tab

10. Click the Save button

11. Click the Load [your assignment name] in a New Window button



12. Under Assignment Mapping, make sure the current class is selected

13. Select the desired assignment

14. Click the Link to Assignment button

15. Canvas will now attempt to launch your assignment. If it doesn’t have any

restrictions, you will be able to try it out. Whether or not you answer any

questions, when you are done click the Submit Assignment button, then click the

Quit and Save button.

16. Back on Canvas, go to your list of assignments and then click the Publish button

for the new assignment

17. In the course menu, click Modules

18. If you haven’t already created a module, create one and publish it

19. Click the + button for the new module, select Assignment, select the desired

assignment, click Add Item, and publish the assignment

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QUESTION REPOSITORY

CREATE A MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION WITH GRAPHICS

Although you can embed graphics from any source, this is not recommended. If the graphics are on someone else’s website, those graphics could be removed or changed without your knowledge. Even if the graphics are on a site that is under your control, the more spread out your content the harder it will be to manage, and the more technology that can fail.

Therefore, it is strongly recommended that you upload all of your Maple TA assignment resources (images, PDFs, etc.) to your Maple TA class.

Any graphics that you wish to upload to your Maple TA class will first need to exist on your computer.

1. In the Maple TA menu, click Questions

2. In the Question Repository menu, click New Question

3. Click Multiple Choice

4. Type the Question Name

5. In the editor for the Question Text, click the Insert/Edit Image button



6. Click the Upload tab

7. Click the Choose File button

8. Find the graphic you want to upload and double-click it

9. Click the Send it to the server button



10. After the file is uploaded you will be returned to the Image Info tab of the Image Properties dialog, with the image’s properties (URL, width, height) filled in automatically

11. If an image is too large, it will be difficult for students to view. Consider scaling down an image if its width or height is over 600.

To resize an image: Enter a new value for the image’s width or height; the other dimension will scale automatically if the aspect ratio is locked (click the padlock icon to lock/unlock the aspect ratio).

12. Click the OK button when done

13. With Multiple Choice and Multiple Selection questions, images can also be inserted into the answer.

14. Enter the answer options and select a correct answer

15. Click the Finish button



ASSIGNING GROUPLESS QUESTIONS TO A QUESTION GROUP

Because users are no longer prompted to assign new questions to a question group, it’s inevitable that you will occasionally forget to assign a new question to a question group. When this happens, you may panic when you look in a question group and discover that it doesn’t contain all the questions it should. But these “orphaned” questions are not lost for good.

WHERE CAN I FIND QUESTIONS THAT HAVEN’T BEEN ASSIGNED TO A

QUESTION GROUP?

In the Question Repository, your question groups are shown in the left hand column. At

the bottom of the list of question groups are two links. One link is for Questions not in

groups, and the other is for Deleted questions. By clicking the Questions not in groups

link, you can view all questions that have not been assigned to a question group.

HOW DO I ASSIGN A “GROUPLESS” QUESTION TO A QUESTION GROUP?

1. In the Question Repository, click Questions not in groups



2. It’s easiest to manipulate questions if they are all displayed on the same page; if

all the questions you want to assign to a specific group are not on the same page,

scroll to the bottom of the list of questions and change the number of questions

displayed per page to Show all

3. If you want to assign all of the groupless questions to the same group, click the

Select all button; otherwise, select the checkbox of each question to be moved

into the same group

4. Click the to the right of the target group

Maple T.A. 10.0 User Guide Assignments |36


ASSIGNMENTS

CREATE A PROCTORED EXAM

Coming soon.



COPY AN ASSIGNMENT


down menu

2. Click the dropdown arrow next to the assignment you want to copy

3. Click Copy

4. Click the dropdown arrow next to the copy of the assignment and click Edit



5. Type a new name for the assignment

6. Click Set Policies

7. Change any setting(s) that you want to be changed for this copy of the

assignment

8. If maximum number of attempts had been set in the original assignment, notice

that in the copy this setting can’t be changed. This is due to a bug in Maple TA.

Even if you do not wish to change the maximum number of attempts for this

copy of the assignment, this problem needs to be fixed or students will not be

able to take the assignment.

a. To fix the problem, click the Advanced button (right under the tabs)

b. Click the Remove criterion button



c. Click the Back button

d. Notice that now max number attempts allowed can be changed

9. Click Review and Finish

10. Click Finish



PROVIDE EXTRA TIME TO A STUDENT SERVED BY SSD

You don’t need to do anything, as SSD staff and the A&S testing center are able to add

extra time.

GIVE A STUDENT AN ADDITIONAL ATTEMPT AT AN ASSIGNMENT

Coming soon.

EXTEND THE DEADLINE FOR ALL STUDENTS

Coming soon.

EXTEND THE DEADLINE FOR SOME STUDENTS

Coming soon.

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GRADEBOOK

FORCE-GRADING

Sometimes students don’t submit their Maple TA assignments when they’re done. They

might click the Quit & Save button instead of the Submit Assignment button, or they

might close the assignment window without clicking any button. When this happens,

you will need to force-grade these assignment.

While most students do submit their assignments, there will usually be a few who don’t,

and so it’s highly recommended that you check for and force-grade any active

assignment attempts following each assignment deadline.

To check for and force-grade any active assignment:


down menu

2. In the table of assignments, look for the name of the assignment that just ended

3. If the number in the assignment’s Active column is greater than zero, click it



4. A pop-up window will display all active attempts. Some may be displayed in the

To be graded section and some may be displayed in the Cannot grade section.

Click the Force Grade button to force-grade all attempts that can be graded at

this time. If there are any attempts in the Cannot grade section, you will need to

wait a few hours before trying again.

At this time, Maple TA is not able to send the scores of force-graded

assignments to the Canvas gradebook. If you are using Canvas, see the section

called Manually Exporting Scores to LMS (Canvas)



MANUAL GRADING (BY QUESTION)

Because Maple TA 10 doesn’t provide any feedback when a new grade is entered and

saved, saving each new grade as you go (which is what I used to recommend) would be

too confusing and frustrating. So now my recommendation is to grade all answers and

then save, because this method requires you to select each student whose score should

be updated, which provides a visual reminder of your progress.

Note: Often it’s more convenient/efficient to do manual grading by question rather than

by student. But the by-student method is fairly straightforward, while the by-question

method isn’t. Therefore, these instructions describe how to grade by question.

1. You will need to navigate through the structure of the assignment to find the

questions that require manual grading. Therefore, before going to the Maple TA

Gradebook, it is often best to go to Assignments and edit the assignment and

review its structure.

2. In the Maple TA menu, mouse-over Gradebook, mouse-over Search, click Class

Grades

3. In the Select Assignments panel, select the desired assignment



4. In the Filter Results panel…

a. For Classes (if you are working in a parent class – if you don’t know what

that means, you can skip this step), select the desired class(es); hold down

the Ctrl key to select multiple classes, or click/shift-click to select a range

of classes

b. For List, select Students with grades

c. For Progress, selected To Be Reviewed

5. At the very bottom of the browser page, set Rows to 999 (the goal is to display all

students on one page)

6. Click the Search button

7. Scroll down to see a table of student scores for the selected assignment



8. Click the name of the assignment at the top of the Grade column

9. You will now see a table that shows student scores broken down by the question

groups and/or questions at the root level of the assignment.

a. Question Groups: The column labels for question groups end with a plus

sign (e.g., Q1+ in the screen capture above represents a question group)

b. Questions: The column labels for questions do not end with a plus sign

(e.g., Q2 in the screen capture above represents a question), and they are

accompanied by a preview button:

10. Locate the desired question. If the question is in a question group, click the

column label of its suspected question group to navigate into it.

If you click the wrong question group, just click your browser’s Back button to

back out of it.



11. Once you locate a question that requires manual grading, click its column label

12. Maple TA will now display a table of all students’ answer to the selected

question.

13. Review the first student’s answer and decide what grade to award. The grade

should be a number between 0.0 and 1.0, where 1.0 means to award 100% of

the question’s point value. Enter this grade in the corresponding New Grade

field.

14. If you want to make a note to yourself about this grade, enter it in the Comment

on Grade field.

15. If you want to leave a comment or explanation for the student, enter it in the

Instructors Comment field.

16. Click the checkbox for this student’s answer. Be sure not to forget this step,

because this is what will determine which students’ scores are updated.

Question columns may not be in order. If you know that the question need to

grade is the third question in a particular question group, you should click the

Item3 column label rather than the third column’s label.

Important: you need to enter a value between 0.0 and 1.0, NOT the number

of points you wish to award. The grade you enter will be multiplied by the

question’s point value to determine the number of points awarded. So if the

question is worth 5 points and you mistakenly enter “5” thinking that you are

being asked to enter points, you will actually be giving the student 25 points.

If you ever discover that students are scoring higher than 100% on a Maple

TA assignment, this may be the reason.

Within question groups, questions are labeled Item# rather than Q#.



17. Continue scoring students’ answers in this way, repeating steps 13 through 16 for

each grade to be updated

18. When all students’ answers to this question have been scored, scroll back to just

above the table of answers and click the Save Question Details button.

19. Click your browser’s Back button. This returns you to the previous table of scores.

If the next question you wish to grade is in this table, click its column label and

repeat the grading process. If instead you need to navigate to a different

question group, click your browser’s Back button, navigate to the desired

question group, and click the desired question’s column label.

Be very careful to NOT click the Update Grades button, as this will clear all the

new grades.

New grades and comments are only saved when you click the Save Question

Details button. It is recommended that you periodically click the Save

Question Details button during the manual grading process. Nothing on the

page will update when the button is clicked, so you will be able to easily

return to where you left off. Do not be concerned by the lack of visual

feedback when you click the Save Question Details button. If you clicked it,

the new grades and comments ARE saved.

At this time, Maple TA is not able to send the scores of manually-graded

assignments to the Canvas gradebook. If you are using Canvas, see the section

called Manually Exporting Scores to LMS (Canvas)



MANUALLY EXPORTING SCORES TO LMS (CANVAS)

At this time, Maple TA is not able to send the scores of force-graded or manually-graded

assignments to the Canvas gradebook. (Scores ARE sent to Canvas when a student

submits their assignment.) Maplesoft says this capability will be provided in the next

Maple TA update, which we expect to upgrade to during the 2016 winter break.

For now, whenever you force-grade or manually-grade any attempts for an assignment,

you will need to export the assignment’s scores from Maple TA and import them into

Canvas. Normally this would be a difficult process, but I’ve created an Excel spreadsheet

that should make it fairly simple.

1. To begin, download the Maple TA Gradebook Tool for Canvas (if you haven’t

already) and open it in Excel.

2. Follow the sub-steps below to export your Canvas grade data and put it in the

Maple TA Gradebook Tool for Canvas spreadsheet; you can skip this step if you’ve

already done it, and your Canvas grade data is current (by current, I mean that no

new students have joined the class, and the assignment for which you need to

export scores already has a column in your Canvas grade data)

a. In your Canvas class, click Grades

b. At the top right, click Export then click Current

c. Save the exported CSV file to the same location as the Maple TA

Gradebook Tool for Canvas

d. Open the CSV file

e. Press Ctrl-A and Ctrl-C to copy the exported Canvas data

f. Go to the Canvas Export worksheet in the Maple TA Gradebook Tool for

Canvas spreadsheet

g. Click cell A1

h. Press Ctrl-V to paste the Canvas data

http://scimath.unl.edu/wba/_files/Maple%20TA%20Gradebook%20Tool%20for%20Canvas.xlsx



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COURSE MODULES

CREATE AND EXPORT A COURSE MODULE

1. In Maple TA menu, click Questions

2. Click Course Modules

3. Click New

4. For each type of content (Groups, Assignments, and Web Folders), click Select All

and then click > to add the selected content to the course module



5. Click OK

6. Type a name for the course module; there is no need to fill in any other fields

7. Click the OK button

8. Click the checkbox for the course module you would like to export



9. Click the Export button

10. Click the OK button

11. Click Click here to start the download

12. Your browser may then display options for opening or saving the file. Be sure to

select Save. If prompted for a location to save to, select a location that you will

remember. If not prompted for a location, you should be able to find the file in

your Downloads folder. If all else fails, you can press Ctrl-J in your browser to see

a list of downloads and jump to the location of any downloaded file.



IMPORT A COURSE MODULE INTO A NEW CLASS

1. In the new Maple TA class, click Questions in the Maple TA menu

2. Click Course Modules

3. Click the Import button

4. Click the Browse button, locate your course module and select it, then click the

Import button



5. Click the Select All checkbox for each of

the three types of content, then click the

Install button

6. Wait patiently while your content installs

7. If, after a few minutes, an error message

is displayed, wait a few minutes more.

Then check the Question Repository, the

Assignments page, and the Class File

Manager. (The Class File Manager can be

accessed from the Class Details menu on

the homepage of your Maple TA class. To

get to your class homepage, click the

name of your class above the Maple TA

menu.) Did all of your content install?

8. If any of your content failed to install,

return to the source class (the class from

which you want to copy Maple TA content) and create two new course modules:

one that contains all questions and assignments, and one that contains all

resources files (aka “Web Folders”). Export both of these course modules. Then

in the new class, first import the course module containing the resource files and

then import the course module containing the questions and assignments.

Always include all related assignments in any course module that contains

questions. If you import assignments separately from the questions they

contain, your assignments will lose their reference to those questions.

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