Alice Interactive Mathematics

AIM is a system for computer-aided assessment in mathematics and related disciplines, with emphasis on formative assessment. The original version was developed at the University of Gent in Belgium, but details in this article refer to a heavily revised version developed by the author at the University of Sheffield. Documentation, downloads, and archives of the AIM mailing list are available from http://dani.shef.ac.uk/aimsource, and you can try the system as a guest by visiting http://aim.shef.ac.uk and giving “guest” as your student ID and password. There are numerous other systems for CAA in mathematics, but AIM has a number of very distinctive features…