Hello, In a Maple graded question (mode=Maple@) the type (formula, or maple synthax) allows us to choose one of two possible ways of parsing student answers. I would like to write questions where i can choose, or provide, a parser to parse student answers into Maple expressions. Given a Maple parsing procedure myParser(ans::string), i can set mode=Maple@ maple=evalb(myParser($RESPONSE));@ and then ask students to write their answers inside quotes, so that their answers get parsed as strings. Besides being ugly, i'm afraid this aproach will lead to many wrong answers of students who forget to quote their input.

I have learned in Brownstone site how to create,
using latex, sketch questions for Maple TA.
I could create a question bank, formed by sketch mode questions,
and then uploaded it to Maple TA, but the applets just don't work.
There are no java error messages.
On the java console i get messages like:
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false

SplinePlot.mousePressed():
Could not add node because of conflicting x-coordinate:
node with matching x-value already present in system
Please select another point.
false
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