Have you heard the news yet? Maple Learn has had a major update! You may be wondering what this means, and what all the shiny new features are. Let’s go through them together.

First, as with many updates, we’ve improved performance with Maple Learn. Longer documents will load and perform faster, requiring less computing power for operations, and as a result your browser will be more responsive. Performance on Chromebooks is also improved.

Operations that previously would have needed to be refreshed now automatically calculate. Up until now, if you performed a menu operation on an expression and then changed the value of the expression, the result would turn orange to warn you that the result was no longer valid. You would then have to refresh manually. Now, this is no longer the case, the orange refresh button has been removed from Maple Learn, and results are never out of date.

The plot window, inline plots, and the context panel are all resizable now. This means that, for example, if you’re presenting using Maple Learn, you can enlarge the plot window to be the focus of the presentation, and shrink the context panel out of the way. Take a look at the difference, with our animation of it in action!

Sliders are also more flexible now! Bounds for sliders can be expressed in terms of variables or symbols like π. As well, you can now animate sliders, animating the graph. This allows for more interactivity in documents. See the old view on the left, and the new view on the right! Make sure to take a look at an example of the animated slider below the views as well. 

You can also now snap groups to a grid, allow them to automatically adjust their position as other groups adjust. This ensures better alignment of groups. It also allows you to easily rearrange elements of your documents.

Next, Maple Learn could handle 3D plots before, but now Maple Learn supports 3D parametric plots!

Finally, Maple Learn now has printing! This means you can print out your Maple Learn documents, with two options: to print just the canvas, or to print just the plot. This was requested by many users.

Multiple selection is also possible, allowing you to select multiple cells in a group by holding down the Ctrl/Command key while clicking and dragging.

That’s all for the updates in this version, but keep an eye out for our other updates! For more details, please take a look at our What’s New In Maple Learn page. We hope you enjoy our new features, and let us know if there are any more features you’d like to see in Maple Learn below.