User Stories
Words of a Maple T.A. User
Professor Kevin Vang, Minot State University
The following quotes were taken from an inteview conducted in 2004 with
Professor Kevin Vang of Minot State University in North Dakota, USA.
"I’ve been using Maple pretty regularly for over 20 years,
and when I started seeing advertising for Maple T.A. it just seemed natural.
And I don’t think there’s anything else out there that has
quite the same features or capabilities that Maple T.A. does."
"It’s made it much much easier for me to teach the course
online. The students can just take the test and then have it graded instantly.
I don’t have to do any of that work and we don’t have the
5 or 6 day time delay of sending papers back and forth through the mail."
"They (the students) like the fact that they can take the test
any time and any place they want to."
"It just saves me a whole lot of work … once you have them
written (question banks) you can reuse the material over and over again
without much additional work."
"That was the feature (free response math) that sold me on the
product to begin with." |