Wims

See also: Wims (homonymy)

Wims (acronym of Web Interactive Multipurpose Server) is an educational waiter, a platform of training on line:

  • specialized in mathematics (but one there also finds other disciplines, and in several languages)

  • covering the 10 years trainings to the University
  • born in Nice, under the impulse of its creator (Xiao Gang) and deployed throughout the world
  • opened with each individual, as each school or classifies
  • making it possible to build courses of training and to create oneself of the exercises
  • under license GNU LPG, with a source code available, modifiable, distributable

What is what Wims?

Card-index identity

  • Originator: Gang Xiao (University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, author of a string of exercises on line for Wims)
  • License: LPG
  • Environment: Unix for the waiter, unspecified navigator Internet for computers customers (pages HTML).
  • Site: The waiter of the University of Nice.
  • Remote loading: Wims of Nice

With which addresses Wims?

  • with the chiefs of establishments, to equip the Intranet with a platform of elearning (primary, secondary, higher)
  • with the teachers to build courses of training on line for one or more classes, one or more pupils, to evaluate the pupils (notation integrated into wims and skeletal), to follow work of the remote pupils
  • to the pupils to follow the course defined by a teacher, or to only involve
  • with any person, to create, modify exercises in line

Knowims (Knoopix + Wims)

Wims can be also carried out starting from a reader cdrom, it is enough for that to have Cd Knowims

Tutoriel (pdf)

Tutoriel for the discovery of Wims

Power of the mathematical tool

Mathematical applications used
  • TeX, for the generation of mathematical texts.
  • Gnuplot, for the layout 2D and 3D
  • Povray for returned the 3D photorealist
  • Fly, for geometrical
  • MuPad, Maximum constructions for calculation symbolic system
  • Bet for matrix algebra and on the polynomials
  • Gap for calculation on the structures of groups
  • Octave for numerical calculation into multiprecision

Wims thus integrates a whole panel of mathematical tools. It is one of its specificities, and it is in this field that all its power appears, until in higher education.

Examples for calculations of derivative, limits, layouts of curves

Creation of exercises

Through format OEF (Open Exercise Format), Wims makes it possible to create exercises in all the disciplines. The catch in hand of this format is fast, and does not require any technical skill. In some clicks, one builds a QCM, a mathematical enigma or a exercise on the agreement of the adjectives.

Here some examples

See too

  • Numerical Space of Work (ENT) on Wikipedia
  • Platform of training in line

Related articles

FAQ Wims, special beginners

External bonds and documents

The Site of the free software of the Academy of Versailles

List waiters WIMS in France and in the world

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