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Maple T.A. User Guide Copyright Copyright © Maplesoft, a division of Waterloo Maple Inc. 2011. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transcribed, in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise. Information in this document is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of the vendor. The software described in this document is furnished under a license agreement and may be used or copied only in accordance with the agreement. It is against the law to copy the software on any medium except as specifically allowed in the agreement. Trademarks Maple, Maple T.A., Maplesoft, Waterloo Maple, and Maple T.A. Content Center are all trademarks of Waterloo Maple Inc. Adobe and Acrobat are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. Microsoft, Excel, Internet Explorer, Windows, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Java, all Java-based marks, and Sun are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. This document was produced using a special version of Maple and DocBook. ISBN 978-1-926902-21-0
Contents Preface .......................................................................................................................................... xvii 1 Getting Started ................................................................................................................................. 1 1.1 How the System Works ................................................................................................................ 1 User Roles ................................................................................................................................. 1 Single Login .............................................................................................................................. 1 Class Homepage ......................................................................................................................... 1 1.2 Overview: Question Repository, Assignments, and Reports ................................................................ 1 Question Repository .................................................................................................................... 1 Assignments .............................................................................................................................. 1 Gradebook ................................................................................................................................. 2 1.3 Getting Started ........................................................................................................................... 2 Creating a New Class in Maple T.A. ............................................................................................... 2 Working with Questions and Assignments in Maple T.A. .................................................................... 2 1.4 System Overview ....................................................................................................................... 2 The System Login ....................................................................................................................... 3 System Homepage ...................................................................................................................... 4 The Class Homepage ................................................................................................................... 4 Using the System in the Classroom ................................................................................................ 5 Getting Help .............................................................................................................................. 5 2 Creating and Managing Classes ........................................................................................................... 7 2.1 Class Manager ........................................................................................................................... 7 Creating a New Class .................................................................................................................. 7 Registering Users in a Class ........................................................................................................ 10 Shared Classes .......................................................................................................................... 13 2.2 Manage Proctors ....................................................................................................................... 14 Adding a Proctor ....................................................................................................................... 16 Deleting a Proctor ..................................................................................................................... 17 2.3 The Class Web Site Editor .......................................................................................................... 17 Uploading Single Files ............................................................................................................... 17 Uploading Multiple Files ............................................................................................................ 18 Viewing or Deleting Files ........................................................................................................... 18 Working with Folders in the Class Web Site ................................................................................... 18 3 Creating and Managing Assignments ................................................................................................... 21 3.1 The Assignment Editor .............................................................................................................. 21 Overview: The Assignment Editor Screen ...................................................................................... 21 Options in the Assignment Editor ................................................................................................. 23 Adding New Assignments ........................................................................................................... 23 Copying Assignments ................................................................................................................ 24 Deleting Assignments ................................................................................................................ 24 Editing Assignments .................................................................................................................. 25 Previewing Assignments ............................................................................................................ 26 Printing Assignments ................................................................................................................. 26 Controlling the Sequence of Listed Assignments ............................................................................. 26 Overview: Using the Assignment Editor ........................................................................................ 26 Assigning Partial Credit ............................................................................................................. 27 3.2 Tutorial: Using the Assignment Editor .......................................................................................... 28 Assignment Editor Step 1: Choose a Name for the Assignment .......................................................... 28 Assignment Editor Step 2: Select Questions ................................................................................... 28 Assignment Editor Step 3: Setting Policies ..................................................................................... 30 Assignment Editor Step 4: Review & Finish ................................................................................... 33 3.3 Assignment Types ..................................................................................................................... 34 iii
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Page 5 and 6: Contents • v 6.3 Deleting Student
Page 7 and 8: Contents • vii Maple-graded Quest
Page 9 and 10: Contents • ix Assignment Creation
Page 11 and 12: Contents • xi Key Word or Phrase
Page 13 and 14: List of Figures Figure 1.1: System
Page 15 and 16: List of Tables Table 1.1: System Mo
Page 17 and 18: Preface Overview of the Instructor
Page 19 and 20: • The updated math engine takes a
Page 21 and 22: 1 Getting Started 1.1 How the Syste
Page 23 and 24: Gradebook • View individual and c
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Page 29 and 30: Create a Child Class In addition to
Page 31 and 32: Locking Class Registration Class Ro
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Page 37 and 38: Deleting a Proctor To delete a proc
Page 39 and 40: Deleting Subfolders To delete a sub
Page 41 and 42: 3 Creating and Managing Assignments
Page 43 and 44: See Also: It is possible to force g
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Page 47 and 48: Step 2: Select Questions for the As
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Figure 3.11: Restrict Access to Spe
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Table 3.1: Assignment Attributes As
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Graded assignment reports are produ
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3.4 Details on Using the Assignment
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Merge Questions into Question Group
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Configuring Question Weighting By d
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Notes: Some caution should be used
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Assignment Visibility Clearing the
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Limiting Student Access to Assignme
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4 Working with the Gradebook 4.1 Ov
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Customize the display of the search
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Viewing Student Assignment Details
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See Also: Configuring Feedback Opti
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3. Specify a name for the grade rep
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Modifying External Assignment Grade
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5 Course Modules Course Modules all
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5. Specify a name for your course m
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• If you have access to the sourc
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5.8 Relative Web References in Cour
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6 Administering Maple T.A. 6.1 Chan
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7 Integrating Maple T.A. with an LD
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8 Authoring Methods for Questions 8
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• Author a limited number of new
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See Also: Sharing Questions (page 1
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Note: When refreshing the algorithm
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Guidelines for Maple Commands in Ma
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See Also: Using Complete Solutions
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• Acceptable margin of error for
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The system returns to the Web Site
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4. Modify the applet code to r
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3. Click the icon next to the appro
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Figure 8.6: Question Designer Quest
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c. In the question screen, the sect
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c. You can add a comment, algorithm
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Copying Content from the Maple Work
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To create and organize the parts fo
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Numeric Questions in the Question E
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Example To create a pop-up HTML ref
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This question is created in the Que
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Figure 8.9: Multiple Choice Questio
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15. Ensure the $sum variable is sel
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14. Click OK. The Edit Response Are
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This question is created in the Que
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Figure 8.16: Defining a Maple-Grade
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To create the question: 1. Select t
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Figure 8.18: Question with a Random
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To enter the system of equations, c
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Figure 8.21: Using the Matrix Palet
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Figure 8.22: Invertible Matrix Ques
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14. The Edit Response Area dialog o
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25. The Edit Adaptive Section dialo
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Some questions may not belong to an
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Note: If you make changes to the .q
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qu.1.2.mode=formula@ qu.1.2.questio
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Question Fields Each question must
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qu.x.y. hint.i solution info Defin
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Question Statement Format: qu.x.y.q
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Example qu.1.1.info= subtopic=Subtr
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• topic • name • question •
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9 Question Types 9.1 Question Types
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For example, the only root of x^2-2
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Table 9.2: Rules and Keys for Enter
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Figure 9.3: Input Field for a Formu
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Formula with Units Question Mode: D
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Guidelines for Using Maple Code for
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• Enter syntactically correct Map
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Question file (.qu) syntax: qu.x.y.
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• You can control the precision a
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For more information, see Graph Plo
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Figure 9.7: Input Field for a Vecto
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Figure 9.8: Adaptive Question Parti
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esponse. In that case, it may be a
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9.8 Flash Questions Question Mode:
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Both List questions and Blanks ques
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See Also: List Questions (page 181)
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Example The following algorithmical
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• If you select multiple question
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elow). You can add one or more tool
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Figure 9.11: Question Designer Scre
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Algorithmic Variables in questions
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Response Area Properties Essay Ques
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3. Select the Maple-graded question
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Finish Multiple Choice Type in Ques
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Note: When refreshing the algorithm
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10 Authoring Mathematical Questions
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For: • A letter and a number with
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Controlling Answer Tolerance There
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Example Calculate the quadratic mea
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Plotting a Student Response Maple T
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Table 10.2: Keyboard Shortcuts for
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Symbol Palette See Also: Palette Qu
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Palette Definition OPERATORPALETTE
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mathml(expr, 1) (the default) retur
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@ qu.1.5.question= What is the equa
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mathml(f) (page 246) 10.8 Plotting
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name=Displaying a Plot@ editing=use
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Function hyperbolic cotangent hypco
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10.10 Using a Table of Units • 22
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10.10 Using a Table of Units • 22
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Custom Table of Equivalent Units Yo
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qu.1.2.question= What is the kineti
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Syntax $m=int(15.27375491) $m=decim
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((2.17 ? 0.01) + e^(1.07?2.03))/(1?
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Mathematical and Logical Operators
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10.17 Generating Random Numbers in
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For example, returns 20.857 returns
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indexof(k, a, b, c, d, ...) Returns
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7 min(a, b, c, d, ...) Returns the
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ange(n) The range(n) function gener
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For example, erf(0) = 0.5 erf(1) =
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Reserved Operations The following f
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${if(eq($grade.foo2, 1), "correct",
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Table 10.15: Option for 3-D Plots O
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Variable definitions must reduce to
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(a) What is its momentum? (b) What
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$i=rint(4); $j=rint(4); $k=4*i+j; $
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6. The examples in Tutorial 1 can b
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11 Authoring Questions in LaTeX 11.
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Example \begin{question}{formula} \
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Example 3 \begin{question}{Non Perm
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Example 2 \begin{question}{Matching
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See Also: $s1=if($t1,"","-"); $a=in
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Question Mode: Blanks - [text] opti
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\end{question} \end{question} See A
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Table 11.6: Basic Sketch Criteria g
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Sample 2 \image[gif]{graphic} Sampl
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• The code that creates and manip
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$ans=frac($num,$a); } \end{question
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cd (Candela) • To use a custom li
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\newline\newline Use 3960 miles for
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Restricted Formula Questions in LaT
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• The correct answer given should
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Equation Questions in LaTeX Questio
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Maple Formula Using the Maple Formu
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\end{blank} \begin{blank}{Numeric}
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12 Plain Text Script Authoring 12.1
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$e=int(2 * rint(10) + 1); $f=int(2
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Example 2.1 To specify that the stu
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qu.1.1.question=Click on the trache
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In the correct answer, identify key
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qu.1.topic=Maple Formula Question E
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$a x$n dx is: @ qu.1.1.part.1.edi
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qu.4.7.editing=useHTML@ qu.4.7.algo
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within tables. - Response cells can
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Appendix A Additional Information A
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Index Symbols $ (dollar) Sign, 259
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D d-Value, 57 Decimal, 153, 234, 24
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Importing and Installing Course Mod
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Non Permuting Multiple Selection, 2
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Restricted Formula Questions, 293 R
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List-based, 260 Lists of variables,
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