SYLVA | Better Teaching Within Your Reach

Authoring

Express yourself.

Wouldn’t it be great if the same material could be used effortlessly to create slide shows, lecture notes, and assessments? It is. In SYLVA. Gain full creative control of your courses. Implement your own teaching material and take advantage of convenient built-in tools to customize content that resonates with your students.

Interactivity

Integrate dynamic elements into your course to boost student engagement and build intuition for new learning concepts.

Collaboration

Work together in teams to create and maintain your course materials without having to send files back-and-forth. All files are collected in SYLVA and are easily accessible to all collaborators.

Local–Cloud Hybrid

Your best ideas might come when you're offline. SYLVA conveniently stores your course content in its secure private cloud, but you can still work on it offline and save it when you're back online.

Styling

Take advantage of simple and consistent designs for your course lectures, assessments, and grading reports.

Courseware

Seamless teaching.

Engage your students with interactive lectures and assignments that they can conveniently access online, anywhere, anytime.

Probability Theory

Conditional Probability

Introduction

Correlation

A.1 Correlation

Marginal, Joint, and Conditional Probabilities

Probability Trees

Examples

Working with Probability Trees

Bayes‘ Rule

End of lecture

Test your knowledge

Probability Theory

Conditional Probability

Introduction

Correlation

A.1 Correlation

Marginal, Joint, and Conditional Probabilities

Probability Trees

Examples

Working with Probability Trees

Bayes‘ Rule

End of lecture

Test your knowledge

Probability Theory

Conditional Probability

Introduction

Correlation

A.1 Correlation

Marginal, Joint, and Conditional Probabilities

Probability Trees

Examples

Working with Probability Trees

Bayes‘ Rule

End of lecture

Test your knowledge

Probability Theory

Conditional Probability

Introduction

Correlation

A.1 Correlation

Marginal, Joint, and Conditional Probabilities

Probability Trees

Examples

Working with Probability Trees

Bayes‘ Rule

End of lecture

Test your knowledge

Probability Theory

Conditional Probability

Introduction

Correlation

A.1 Correlation

Marginal, Joint, and Conditional Probabilities

Probability Trees

Examples

Working with Probability Trees

Bayes‘ Rule

End of lecture

Test your knowledge

Slideshow Mode

Present your lecture material at your own pace in slideshow mode.

Reader Mode

Students conveniently take notes without distractions in reader mode.

Teach your way

Supplement your course lectures, teaching goals, and textbook content in the way you want, using SYLVA’s features.

SYLVA provides seamless transitions between in-class material, assignments, and exams, creating the perfect environment for modern blended learning.

You have full control of the structure and content of your courses, giving students a structured environment in which to improve their knowledge and helping them make it to the finish line.

Online, PDF, and Notebook Deployment

Use the best medium for your lecture material with automatic deployment to PDF and Mathematica notebooks.

PDF

Mathematica
notebook

Online version

Assessment

Test your students,
not your patience.

Continuous assessment of your students during the semester can radically improve their learning success but comes at the expense of your time and effort. SYLVA now makes this possible–without any extra effort on your end. Welcome to fully personalized exams, individualized feedback, and flexible scheduling.

Question

What is X + Y?

Submit

Question

What is 1 + 2?

Submit

Question

What is 3 + 4?

Submit

Question

What is 4 + 2?

Submit

Question

What is 2 + 1?

Submit

Question

What is 1 + 3?

Submit

Question

What is 2 + 3?

Submit

Personalization

Personalized assessments reinforce learning concepts for students and discourage cheating. Create different versions of the same questions using our simple interface, which includes automated parameterization and randomization.

Assessment Types

Self-tests are integrated into your lectures or used as a stand-alone preparation tool for exams. Automated grading gives your students instant feedback, and the results are either reported in the final grades or used as a personal learning benchmark for the students.

Assignments allow you to track your students' progress with the course material and identify which concepts they need more help on. Automated grading makes reviewing their results quick and painless.

Exams are securely administered based on your course schedule. Set flexible time frames and deadlines for completion. Exams can conveniently be conducted online, in the classroom or at home.

Students can create and edit presentations online while collaborating in groups in real time. Educators can view the progress of presentations online at any time. No additional downloads or applications required.

Team Assessments

Group assignments and projects are accessible on the platform and allow for easy collaboration among students.

Question Types

Multiple-choice and true–false questions can directly assess main learning objectives. Take your questions to the next level with order randomization of alternatives, single or multiple correct solutions, and more.

Free response questions offer you versatility to elicit any type of answer from students, including but not limited to numbers, strings, code, geographic locations, and notebooks.

Understand your students' thought processes by allowing them to shift custom plots, move locators on graphs, and more, to show you they truly grasp learning concepts.

Flexible Schedule

Benefit from truly flexible scheduling, setting when students can view and access materials and how long they can spend on each assessment.

Publish

Start

Duration
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End

Assessment Security

Maintain academic integrity and prevent cheating between students by using different versions of the same questions. Simply create a question and set a parameter range for a specific condition.

Sensitive examination information is safe from security threats thanks to on-demand exam creation based on your assessment schedule. Each unique exam is created and distributed only at the time you determine.

Rest assured your course content and data is never lost with backups to our private cloud. Backups are made during assessments to recover invaluable student work in case of Internet disruptions.

SSL ensures your data is passed securely and encrypted. Course content and student data remains private.

Evaluation

Do you like grading?

Automatic grading of assessments saves you a tremendous amount of time, removes human grading errors, and provides students with more grading transparency and learning insights.

Question

What is 1 + 2?

Answer

Question

What is 3 + 4?

Answer

Question

What is 4 + 2?

Answer

Question

What is 2 + 1?

Answer

Question

What is 1 + 3?

Answer

Question

What is 2 + 3?

Answer

Individualized Feedback

Summary grading reports are automatically created for each assessment, student, and course. Keep track of your students' learning progress and identify topics where students need more support. The grading reports allow for individualized feedback, provide a grading point breakdown, and show students where they fall in the course grade distribution, keeping them motivated.

Performance
overview

Details for each question for grading transparency

Grade summary with personalized suggestions for improvement

Students see where they fall in the distribution among their peers

Online Gradebook

Keep an overview of all your students‘ assignments and exams.

Grading Schemes

The grading scheme is customizable to the standards of your organization and country.

Student Requests

Once you publish grades for assessments, students have the option to raise objections on specific questions directly from their evaluation reports. Educators review student requests directly in the online gradebook without having to deal with emails and paper shuffling.

Wolfram Language

Computation Meets Knowledge.

Our partnership with Wolfram Research focuses on technological and scientific innovation and consistently provides a fast, smooth user experience for both you and your students. Embed your Mathematica course material seamlessly onto the SYLVA platform for full integration into the classroom.

Enterprise Private Cloud

The Wolfram Enterprise Private Cloud is a centralized and secure solution that enables high-level computations, parameterization of assessments, and automatic grading on SYLVA.

AI and Knowledge

Take advantage of AI and computable knowledge integration for automatic grading. The repository of computable knowledge and data spans numerous domains.

Functions

Over 7,000 functions, data elements, and dynamic interfaces are incorporated into the SYLVA platform, granting you endless opportunities to innovate your course content.

Demonstrations Project

Easily incorporate any of the thousands of open-source projects that visually and interactively represent ideas and learning concepts across many fields, from science to mathematics and more.