Submitting Maple Assignments for a Grade

To insure that you complete all of each Maple assignment and that we can recognize that you have completed all of the assignment, we supply these guidelines for submission of Maple assignments.

Instructions

1. Links to Maple assignments are located in two places:
For the on-line classes they are found on the "Maple Assignments" link on the home page.
For the on-campus classes they are found on the Math 201 Welcome Page or Math 201 Welcome Page .
To open an assigned Maple worksheet on one of the Lessons pages, click the hyperlink to the worksheet. Read the comments and execute the sample commands that we have provided.

Note: There is a quirk that some of you might run into when opening a Maple worksheet. Maple states that the worksheet was created with an older version of Maple and asks if you wish to update it. Your answer should be, "No".

If you answer, "Yes", Maple discards most if not all of the explanations and instructions written in black. If you are wondering why we have not updated the worksheets ourselves, here's the explanation. Maple is upward compatible (mostly) but not downward compatible. So if we update our worksheets to Maple 9, say, then those with Maple 8 and lower versions of Maple will not be able to access the worksheets easily.

Anyway, the single "No" answer above will suffice to give you access to all of the instruction and explanation. Good Luck.

2. Locate the exercise header and the exercises at the end of the worksheet. The exercise header for Inverses.mws looks like this:

######################################################
## Exercises for Inverses.mws
## Please type your name here:
######################################################

3. Type your name in the exercise header.

4. Provide the solution of each exercise immediately after the exercise instructions. (We ask that you keep the questions with the answers so that both you and we can tell whether you answered the question.)

5. When you are ready to submit your assignment,
     (1) Highlight and delete all of our work above the red header with the #############s where you type your name. (This saves paper and printing costs and reduces file size.)
     (2) Click on every graph to select it, then drag the lower right corner to make it one ninth as large as it was. (This also saves paper and printing costs and reduces file size.)
     (3) Save a soft copy for a back-up on your thumb drive or floppy disk. Click File, Save As, filename.mws, Classic Maple Worksheet, Save.
     (4) A. If you are in an on-campus (F2F, face-to-face) class or on-line class and can submit a hard copy of the worksheet to me, please make a paper copy of the worksheet to submit to me to be graded.
           B. If you are in an on-line class and cannot deliver a hard copy to me, then please
               a. attach the file (having completed steps (1)-(3) just above to reduce file size) to an email and send it to us.
               b. put your name and the worksheet name on the e-mail's subject line, e.g., Smith-Vectops.mws.
               c. send one worksheet per e-mail.

6. We receive the e-mail and attached file, mark it, and e-mail it back to you with a grade affixed.

7. You receive the e-mail from us, click the attachment, read our comments and celebrate or weep.

Additional Notes

1. Please do not zip files. (Unzipped files are stored in a different place on our server than attached files are stored. It makes returning the graded worksheets to you difficult.)

2. Please send one attachment per e-mail. (We usually grade the same assignment for all of the students at one sitting)

3. If you do terribly on a Maple worksheet, you may resubmit it within one week of its return to you for a better grade. The highest grade for a resubmitted worksheet is a B.

4. For numerical results in a worksheet, always evaluate the numerical result as a decimal. This can be done quickly by using Maple's evalf(%) command. It evaluates the result of the last executed command as a decimal (floating point number).