SYLVA Explained

Everything you need to turn your ideas into world-class education.

Discover how to take advantage of SYLVA's comprehensive features for your courses. Learn everything from how to set up your courses to creating advanced interactive questions in our series of tutorials.

Create Courseware in CREO for Beginners

Learn tips for using the authoring tool CREO for courseware if you're a new user of Mathematica.

Install the Authoring Tool CREO

Learn how to download CREO and log in using your SYLVA credentials.

Gain an overview of the SYLVA's powerful authoring tool CREO.

Get introduced to SYLVA with an overview of the dashboard.

Set Up a Course

Learn how to set up a new course in the Administration section.

Sign Up and Log In to SYLVA

SYLVA is free for instructors. Learn how to sign up and log in to SYLVA.

Get started

Administration

Manage Students and Staff

Learn how to invite, maintain, and search for student and staff accounts for courses.

Learn how to create, revise, delete, and archive courses.

Manage Course Administration

Learn how to invite students and staff, review the course schedule and content proposals, and manage the gradebook.

Courseware

Create Static and Dynamic Graphics

Learn how to create visualizations in course material for a more interactive learning experience.

Manage Courseware

Learn how to set up a lecture schedule, review proposals, and publish lectures for student access.

Create a Lecture

Learn how to set up a lecture schedule and create basic lecture content.

Assessment

Assessment Features Overview

Get familiar with the assessment features of SYLVA.

Take a Self-test in SYLVA

Learn how to take a self-test in SYLVA, as well as how to change answers.

Take an Exam in SYLVA

Learn how to take a timed or untimed exam, including how to change and submit answers.

Take an Assignment in SYLVA

Learn how to take an assignment in SYLVA, as well as how to change answers.

Check in Students for Exams

Learn how to check in and check out students for exams.

Use Parameters in Assessments

Learn the applications of parameters and how to use one or multiple when creating questions.

Manage Assessments

Learn how to set up an assessment schedule, review assessment proposals, and publish assessments for student access.

Create Basic Interactive Response Questions

Learn how to create interactive response questions, which allow students to interact with their answers. Build a question then define conditions for the solution.

Create Basic Free Response Questions

Learn how to create free response questions, which take advantage of Wolfram's knowledge base. Set conditions and add optional parameters.

Create Basic Selection Questions

Learn how to create selection questions, similar to multiple choice, with optional custom options and parameter settings.

Create an Assessment

Learn how to set up an assessment schedule. Then create and preview a basic assessment.

Evaluation

Manage Evaluation

Review the Evaluation dashboard and view summary grade reports by assessment, student, and course.