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System for intelligent computer-aided learning and assessment in mathematics Assessment in Mathematics is a free and open source system for computer-aided learning and assessment in mathematics. Assessment in Mathematics is built on top of the symbolic mathematics program Maple, and thus has a rich understanding of mathematics built in. This allows it to randomize questions in complex ways, detect correct answers given in unusual forms, trap common errors and give intelligently tailored feedback and so on. Requirements: · Maple What's New in This Release: Multipart questions: · AiM now has implemented multipart questions, using a syntax similar (but not identical) to that in the Gent version of AiM. See the question syntax documentation for an explanation of how it works. Focused mode: · The user interface for students now allows them to focus on an individual question instead of working on the entire quiz at one time. This should improve response times quite substantially. · Once a student requests the solutions to a quiz, AiM now shows the solutions to the student every time the quiz is requested until the student explicitly requests a new version. Maple 9 compatibility: · AiM can now be run using either versions 7, 8, or 9 of Maple. Improved student feedback: · The quiz selection page now shows each registered student a summary of their current marks on all quizzes. · Students are now informed of the number of attempts they made on a given question, even if their answer is incorrect. Improved quiz navigation: · when requesting a Mark or Validation on an unfocused quiz, the cursor returns to the question that the student was last working on, rather than the top of the page. · Solutions and teacher's answers now have a different color background than the rest of the question. Time limits on processing: · The maple part of AiM now imposes time limits on many things such as initializing a question, constructing the solution, or marking an answer. All time limits default to 2 seconds. · There is a new timelimit>/tl> flag allowing you to specify a different limit for a particular question. · There is a new system variable Config that can be set in ManualConfig.mpl to set change the system default from 2.0 seconds to whatever value is appropriate for a given server. Improved compatibility: · AiM now uses unicode for Netscape, Mozilla, and Safari browsers to resolve problems with the symbol font. · As a first step towards integrating AiM with Moodle or other VLE's, AiM mark up its output in a way that can more easily be parsed by other programs. This is mostly achieved by using and tags. For example, question 7.2 now comes wrapped in ... , and the solution comes wrapped in ... . · Other programs can ask AiM to serve its mathematical output in LaTeX which can then be converted to MathML or pdf. This is used by the Moodle interface. · There are also some changes to move closer to strict compliance with the XHTML standard, e.g. replacing by everywhere. This will be useful if and when we move to using MathML. Prompt and Postprompt flags: · There is a postprompt>/pp> flag, for putting some text directly after the input box in a text question. · Both prompt and postprompt can now be used also in matrix questions. Technical changes: · There are some changes to the object oriented programming framework, to make it fit better with the Maple debugger. In particular, the procedures used to perform methods, which were previously anonymous, now have names: for example, the 'Show' method for `aim/Question/Instance` objects is called `aim/Question/Instance!Show`, and this name is reported in error messages, and can be passed to debugger functions such as stopat(). · There is a facility to make a list of all messages that might need to be translated for internationalization. · The trylast.mpl file has disappeared; it is replaced by the trylast() function which is now defined explicitly in Console.mpl · Several minor technical changes were made to allow compatibility with Maple 9 Improved robustness: · The old codegen package that was causing *lotsof problems when compiling questions has now been replaced with routines calling ToInert and FromInert. This should result in much improved robustness when compiling questions. Improvements to the Admin pages: · The Zone admin page has been cleaned up a bit. In particular the Zone student and administrator login page editors now have their own web page. The default for hiding subjects has been changed from hidden to visible. · The subject admin page now has a link to compile all questions in all non-hidden subjects. Improvements in LaTeX formatting: · Substantially improved default formatting of floats · There is a new global variable 'LaTeXDigits' whose value affects the number of digits used when formatting a float, but not the internal accuracy of the floating point calculations · n^(1/2) now formats as sqrt{n} if n is a single digit integer Exponential function and pi: · AiM now defines the global variable e to be exp(1) · Students (and question authors) can enter expressions involving the exponential function using e instead of exp. For example, exp(x) can be entered by the students as e^x · the global pi is now defined to be Pi, so students can enter either one Installation procedure: · Installation has been simplified. · It is now possible to have several AiM installations running in parallel on the same Tomcat server.

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