• The Remote Question Protocol (RQP): By using web services we are making it possible for users (teachers and students) to access all the different assessment systems through a single interface. This could for example be the VLE that the user is already using.
  
  
• MathQTI: We are developing an extension of the IMS Question and Test Interoperability specification that is suitable for mathematical assessment items. Questions that are written according to this standard should then be able to be interpreted by all MathQTI compliant assessment systems.
  

• AiM: a self-testing and assessment system based on server-side marking using the computer algebra system Maple;
• METRIC: a self-testing and mathematical learning system based on client-side marking implemented in Java.
• STACK: System for Teaching and Assessment using a Computer algebra Kernel
• WaLLiS: an interactive learning environment that focuses on providing adaptive and intelligent feedback.
• Moodle: a user-friendly and modular Virtual Learning Environement.

• ActiveMath: Developing a user-adaptive web-based mathematics learning environment
• APIS: A rendering and scoring engine for QTI v.2 assessment items
• Assis: Assessment and simple sequencing integration services
• TIP: Integration between Bodington VLE, LAMS and TOIA
• TOIA: Online QTI v1.2 compliant assessment system sponsored by JISC
• WebALT: Language-independent mathematical content and assessment
• WeBWorK: Mathematical assessment engine with questions written in Perl
  

Our aim is to provide lecturers with convenient and easy-to-use tools to create computer aided assessment questions for mathematics and to integrate them as seamlessly as possible into existing teaching practice.

The Serving Mathematics Project has now spawned TAM (Tools for Assessment in Mathematics), based at Imperial College London. The Project Plan for TAM will be posted here upon its completion.

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In a nutt shell: SMITE is a web service or a stand alone client which acts as a wrapper for external translators. The aim of SMITE is to facilitate web developers tasks of displaying mathematics on the web.

In a more verbose mode, SMITE is providing web developers all around the world an easy way to translate their mathematical expression from TeX to something else. This is especially useful when creating pages for VLEs such as Moodle. Of course, SMITE was designed to take in whatever translator(s) the system administrator has installed via the configuration file. Whatever formats the translator support is then supported by SMITE. SMITE is written as a class for Python version 2.4 and above. In and of itself, this class knows nothing of how it is called: it can be a python script, a web service wrapper or the command line interface.