Maple Learn Release Notes

The list below highlights the many improvements and enhancements we’ve made to Maple Learn so far this year.

• Check my work. Using this new feature, you can easily figure out exactly where your calculations went wrong. Just enter in your steps and select “Check my work” from the Context Panel, and Maple Learn will pinpoint any errors.
• New point notation. With our new simple point command, you can easily place and label points on the plot.
• Improvements to radicals. Maple Learn now treats radicals the same way a high school or college student would, without delving into complex notation. The behaviour of radicals can also be changed using the “Knowledge Context” menu, which allows you to set your assumptions.
• More step-by-step solutions. Maple Learn now has full step-by-step solutions available for even more kinds of problems, including proving trig identities and solving systems of linear inequalities. Improvements have also been made to the existing step-by-step solutions.
• Colour palettes. Customize the look of your plots with any of our numerous colour palettes, including CVD, which is accessible to colourblind individuals.
• Even more 3-D visualizations. You can now plot spheres and other 3D geometric shapes
• Improved navigation. More keyboard shortcuts have been added, the behaviour for enter and shift-enter now more closely resembles other software, and the scrolling is more responsive. 
• Publishing. It’s now easier than ever to share your Maple Learn document with others. By publishing your document, your document will be given a unique URL—and that URL won’t change when you update and republish the document. No more sending out new share links just to fix a typo!
• Version history. You can now view and restore previous versions of any saved document. 
• Easier to use different alphabets. You can now easily enter characters outside the Latin alphabet by pressing Ctrl/Command + Alt + i and entering text into the textbox that appears. 
• Accessibility. Maple Learn is now usable with the screen reader NVDA. With this screen reader and our extensive keyboard shortcuts, users with low or no vision can now enjoy what Maple Learn has to offer.

This update includes many important enhancements to usability, as well as much-requested features to support authors creating polished documents.

• Faster and more responsive. Substantial performance improvements in Maple Learn mean you can work with longer documents much more easily, and since Maple Learn is using less processing power for most operations, your browser will be more responsive and performance on Chromebooks is improved.
• No more out of date results. Up until now, if you performed a menu operation on an expression, and then the value of that expression changed, Maple Learn would warn you that the answer was no longer valid by turning your result orange. You then had to refresh the result manually. But no more! Now Maple Learn will automatically update all the menu operation results that depended on that value, so when you change the question, all your answers will change with it immediately.
• Resizable plot window. You can now increase the size of the live plot window to make it more suitable for presentations, or decrease it to give yourself more workspace without losing easy access to the instant visualizations and context menus.
• Resizable plots. When you insert a plot into your canvas, you can now adjust its size as you wish.
• Resizable context panel. You can now adjust the width of the context panel, as well controlling the visibility and relative size of the plot window and operations menu inside the panel, so you can easily optimize your workspace for different tasks.
• Printing and exporting. Printing and PDF export are now available, for both the canvas and the live plot window.
• Easy alignment of groups. Groups will line themselves up nicely when you create them and move them around with a new snap to grid that automatically makes small adjustments to the positioning to ensure good alignment. You can also select multiple groups at once (by holding down the Ctrl key, or the Command key on Mac, and double clicking on each group’s numbered label) and move them together as a block.
• Easier to solve systems of equations, include multiple curves on an in-line graph, and more with multiple selection. You no longer need to put all your expressions on the same line in order to perform a menu operation on multiple objects. Maple Learn now allows you to select multiple cells in a group at once, by holding down the Ctrl/Command key as you click or drag to make your selections. This means you can simply select the expressions you want from different cells and then click on the button to perform the operation. Multiple selection also makes it easier to delete, copy, and move content from one group to another.
• More flexible slider bounds. Sliders bounds can now be expressed in terms of variables or symbols such as π.
• Animations. Not only can you change a graph by moving a slider, but you can now also create animations of that graph that will run on their own.
• More 3-D visualizations. Maple Learn now handles 3-D parametric surfaces, as well as regular 3-D plots.