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This agreement provides a site licence for the Maplesoft product family of advanced mathematical and analytical software. Using Maple's mathematical computation engine with integrated numerics and symbolics users can solve mathematical problems and create technical applications.
Agreement start: 1 May 2018
Agreement end: 30 April 2023
Invoice date: one month in advance of the anniversary date of the licence
Institutions may participate at any time during the 5 year period; however, they will be bound by the terms and conditions, including payments for three years from their enrolment.
Site licence
There is an option to purchase the Student and Staff Distribution/Virtualisation Extension which allows students to access Maple on their personal computers, either by local installation or via virtualisation/remote access technology.
This Agreement is available to Institutions of Higher and Further Education in the UK and Research Councils in the United Kingdom, and to Higher and Further Education Institutions (Third Level Colleges) in the Republic of Ireland.
This is a renewal of an agreement first negotiated in 2008 with an updated product range and enhanced bundles.
Licensor: Waterloo Maple Inc., acting through its Trading Division “Maplesoft”, an Ontario, Canada based company with offices at 615 Kumpf Drive, Waterloo, ON, N2V 1K8, Canada.
Student and Staff Distribution/Virtualisation Option allows institutions to do any and all of the following:
(March 2021) Maplesoft has announced a major new release of its flagship product, Maple, the powerful and easy to use mathematical software. Maple is used by mathematicians, educators, students, engineers, and scientists to analyse, explore, visualise, and solve maths problems. The new release, Maple 2021, includes a large number of enhancements particularly designed to support maths education, including:
“Our customers rely on Maple for so many different reasons, from interactive problem solving, to visualising advanced mathematical concepts, creating curriculum materials, developing new algorithms to tackle tough research problems, and more,” says Karishma Punwani, Director of Academic Product Management at Maplesoft. “With Maple 2021, customers get access to a host of improvements across all aspects of the product to enhance their diverse uses of Maple.”
Maplesoft’s mathematics software, Maple, is being used at Bath University to provide a framework for the teaching of complex mathematics problem solving and for students to complete course work and assessment. Read more here.
Use of a Quanser design control system is challenging students at Bristol University to look beyond the immediate project confines to find new solutions, whilst MapleSim modeling software is aiding postgraduate students in the development of robotic systems. Read on here.
The scholarships provide monetary assistance for three years to each student for their graduate studies. They were selected from a group of students that was instrumental in encouraging and contributing to the use of technology in various undergraduate courses at the university. Read the press release.
The Challenge: A professor at the University of Manchester was seeking the best modeling and simulation software solution to help students in his Robotics and Control Systems courses visualise the concepts they were learning. Learn more...
Click on the following links to access a free 15 day trial:
Documentation is provided as pdf's and may be downloaded from the Maplesoft Documentation Center.
Free on-line training is available from Maplesoft Training. In addition, a huge range of resource material is available on the Maplesoft Welcome Center.
This agreement does not include the provision of training and training materials other than the built-in examples. Group training is available from Maplesoft at normal rates.
Maplesoft will provide telephone advice and support to the nominated technical Contact and/or his/her Deputy at Licensed Institutions during normal business hours. Maplesoft support can be contacted at:
Phone: 01223 828989
Email: support@maplesoft.com
Supplier home page: www.maplesoft.com
New releases, versions and functionality are included.
Platform availability and system requirements are available here: www.maplesoft.com/products/system_requirements.aspx
Electronic download
The Chest Order, together with the Licence Terms and Conditions, and any exceptions listed below, create a legally binding contract between your institution, organisation or company and the Licensor. Therefore please read the terms and conditions carefully and only submit a Chest Order if its terms and conditions are acceptable to your institution, organisation or company and you have the authority to make the financial commitment shown.
This Site licence is subject to the terms and conditions for the Standard Chest Licence for Software.
Copying of the Software is allowed in accordance with the terms and conditions for the Standard Chest Licence for Software.
On receipt of a completed order, Sites will be invoiced for the first year of their licence. For each subsequent year, Sites will be invoiced one month in advance of the anniversary date of their licence.
There is monthly pro-rata charging for Sites which become licensed for add-on products partway through a licence year.
There are two fees associated with this agreement (this requires two Purchase Orders):
All terms contained in a PO are expressly rejected and do not form part of the Licence or vary the Licence terms in any way.
Sites may, if they wish, pay a single charge to Maplesoft to cover their commitment period (3 years). Please advise Chest Help if you would like to do this.
Payments are due within thirty days of invoice dates; recipients of late payments are entitled to interest in accordance with UK statutory provisions.
For the Maple Learn add-on, Licensees may remove this product annually by giving notice not later than two months preceding the next subscription year.
At the end of the agreement period sites must remove Maple, along with any add-on products, from their systems.
The product(s) may be used by any Authorised User of the Licensee for Educational Purposes which includes the administration and management of the licensee’s educational and research operations. These permissions are described in the terms and conditions for the Standard Chest Licence for Software.
| Students | Yes |
| Academic Staff | Yes |
| Non-Academic Staff | Yes |
| Administration and management | Yes |
| Staff home use rights | No* |
| Student home use rights | No* |
| Installation on Hosted Server | Yes |
| Overseas Campus use | Yes** |
*This is with the exception of the Maple Learn add-on which includes access from personal devices by default.
**Overseas Campuses may use the software only if they purchase the Overseas Campus option. See the Products and Pricing tab for more information.
For Maple, along with any add-on products (excluding the Maple Learn add-on as this includes home use by default), the following applies:
No Home Use. This Licence Agreement includes home use of the Software for 100 lecturers. Student and other staff home use of the Software is not included, unless the Student & Staff Distribution/Virtualisation Extension has been purchased by the Licensee.
Hosted Servers. Other than inclusive home use for up to 100 lecturers, the Licence Agreement excludes home use of the Software on personal computers so hosted installations cannot allow this use, unless the Student & Staff Distribution/Virtualisation Extension has been purchased by the Licensee.
File Servers. You may install the Software on computer file server(s) within your internal network for use of the Software initiated by an individual from a computer within the same internal network only (that is, not VPN or remotely accessible). You cannot install or access (either directly or through commands, data or instructions) the Software from or to a computer that is not part of your internal network. Operations not initiated by an individual user (for example, automated server processing) are not allowed.
Hosted Server Software (for example, Citrix, Remote Desktop/Terminal Services, etc). The Software may be installed and used on a hosted server software server for direct usage by users (no automated, programmatic, or scripted usage), providing the users are using the Software on a Licensee-owned or operated computer.
Maple can be accessed from personal computers by students, either by local installation or via virtualisation/remote access technology, only if the Student and Staff Distribution/Virtualisation Extension has been purchased.
If the Student and Staff Distribution/Virtualisation Extension has not been purchased then students may purchase a Personal Licence for £75 (excluding delivery and VAT) directly from Maplesoft.
Academic staff can apply for a free home use licence for Maple and the Maple Toolboxes by applying to Maplesoft who will issue a single user Purchase Code.
Licence Term
Institutions commit for three years from when they start their licence. Pricing is in UK Pounds (£s) and excludes VAT which shall apply at the appropriate rate.
There are two fees associated with this agreement:
In the UK prices are based on the size of institutions using Jisc Bands:
|
Site Size |
Jisc Band |
|---|---|
| Large | 1-4 and all Research Councils |
| Medium | 5A, 5B, 6 |
| Small | 7-8 |
| Very Small | 9-10 |
| Associate Sites | Variable on request |
In the Republic of Ireland Universities and Third Level Colleges have been placed in similar bands based on their full time equivalent student numbers, see Ireland Price Bands.
Pricing is fixed for three years of a site's licence and for the first three years of the agreement. However, Maplesoft has a right of review of pricing three years in to the agreement; in this case prices may rise but by no more than compound inflation.
Payment terms are shown on the Terms and Conditions Tab.
How to Order
Making a selection in the pricing tables will pass through to the online order form when you click on Order now (having logged in to the Chest website).
Please select both the appropriate Chest Fee and the Maplesoft product(s) you require when you order. Please also have your 2 Purchase Order numbers to hand, one made out to Jisc and one made out to Maplesoft, as these will be required as part of the online order process.
Note that, if you are ordering add-on products partway through a licence year, you only need to raise a Purchase Order made out to Maplesoft (there is no additional Chest Fee).
If you have any questions, please contact Chest Help.
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