Providing Feedback on Questions[UPDATED]
The way that Maple T.A. currently maps Assignments to content objects in MyUni is somewhat limiting. In particular, the end-date of an Assignment is mapped to the final availability date within MyUni. So in the situation where an assignment is available up to a given time, with feedback restricted until after a test is closed (as set in the "Set Policies" section of the Assignment Editor in Maple T.A.), the assignment is no longer visible to students.There is, however, a straightforward mechanism for allowing students to view their graded assignments. Activate the "TOOLS" section of your MyUni course, and ensure that the "Maple T.A. Tools" item is marked as visible. Students then have access to the graded/commented versions of their assignments via the "Tools" section of the course: they first select the relevant assignment, and then click "Show all Questions".
Setting graph-based questions in Safari
There is a problem setting graph-based questions in Safari (Mac OS X's default browser, supported by Maple T.A.). The text area corresponding to the question text inserts spurious line break characters when submitting its data: this can cause the<script> ...
</script> content to break across more than
one line, which is not allowed. The outcome of this is
that the graph you are attempting to display will be
absent. One workaround is to never edit such questions
in Safari, but to instead use Firefox; alternatively,
such questions may be uploaded using LaTeX.
Rollover of courses in MyUni
At present only one instance of a course with a given name is allowed to exist in MapleTA: this means that an instance of Maths IA, say, running in Semester 1, will prevent registration of a second instance of Maths IA being achieved in Semester 2. The remedy is to deregister the Semester 1 course, but this is only achievable by an administrator on the server. Contact the MyUni helpdesk if you encounter a screen that looks like the following: