You can access your personal Maple library archives from within your Maple questions. To do this, you must first upload your archives files into the class file space on the server. When you create a Maple-graded question, you then specify the location of the archive as part of the question definition. When executing the Maple code associated with that question, the Maple libname variable will automatically be set to access the archive files specified.
Important: When setting up multiple archives inside the same directory, ensure that there are no name conflicts. If you want to share your question bank with another class, you must share the Maple files and the test bank files.
A Maple repository consists of two files, with file extensions .lib and .ind.
To use a repository, you must upload the .lib and .ind files.
In the Question Bank Editor/Add
Mathematical Formula screen, click the Maple Repository
button beneath the Optional
Upload a Maple Repository text.
The Question
Bank Editor/Add Clickable Imagemap screen is displayed.
Select a folder (location) to which to upload the Maple repository.
You can expand an existing folder by clicking the arrow icon.
To create a new folder, click the icon next to the instruction new folder... The folder arrow points down. The repository will upload to this folder location.
Click the icon next to instruction upload files(s) to this point...
The Website
Editor/Upload Files screen
is displayed.
Click Browse to locate the .lib and .ind files.
Select Single File or Zip Archive. You must save both the .lib and .ind files. (This requires two save procedures.)
Click OK. The Question Bank Editor/Add Clickable Imagemap opens with the new .lib (and subsequently) .ind files displayed.
Click the icon next to the .lib file. The Question Bank Editor/Add Mathematical Formula screen opens with the .lib path and filename in the LIB File Location field.
To use an existing repository, you must link to the .lib file.
In the Question Bank Editor/Add
Mathematical Formula screen, click the Maple Repository
button beneath the Optional Upload a Maple
Repository text.
The Question Bank Editor/Add Clickable Imagemap
screen is displayed.
Expand the folders containing library files by clicking the arrow icon.
Click the icon next to the appropriate .lib file. The Question Bank Editor/Add Mathematical Formula screen opens with the .lib path and filename in the LIB File Location field.
If you have multiple archives in the same
directory, you must specify the directory name and not
the .lib file.
To specify the directory, edit out the .lib
file name in the path that populates the LIB File Location
field.
Note: Maple libraries are not available for use in algorithm variable definition statements.
See Also:
Maple-graded Questions in the Question Bank Editor
Maple-graded Question Type - Overview