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Rhea has many facets, and a single page is certainly not enough to describe them all. But since everybody is busy, here is a quick summary.

Student Contributed Learning Material

One of the core functions of Rhea is to enable students to create and share learning material with other students (and the rest of the world!). There are many different types of learning material, such as:

Lecture Notes
Student-led Recitations Notes
Collective Problem Solving
Collective tables of formulas
Student project pages
How to's

Here are a few notable pages created by students:

Honors project for linear algebra
Generating music using MATLAB (Pachelbel Canon)
Similarity analysis of images
A guide to partial fraction expansion
Learn about Tetris.
This MA 181 page about Leibniz's slowly converging series led to an REU in mathematics for John Mason and Josh Hunsberger (under the direction of Prof. Steve Bell). See page 14 of the Math Department newsletter) for more details.
A Program to compute generators that can be used in MA375.
Look at this cool way to display code here!
Fascinating exploration of the imaginary number i
A hilarious disclaimer for a math class
Travis Safford playing Hail Purdue with Matlab
How to get through math grad school at Purdue.

Course Wikis

Many classes on campus use Rhea to host their course wiki. Here are a few examples:

You can find a list of all course wikis organized by year and semester here.

Teaching and Learning Initiatives

Rhea is the perfect platform for supporting your teaching and learning initiatives. Here are a few currently going on.

Alumni Liaisons, Technology Liaisons, Employment Liaisons, etc. Everyone can participate to help Purdue students learn better!
Writers in residence: select students help others learn as they are learning themselves.
Peer Legacy: Purdue students sharing reflections about the classes they took with future students
Course wikis: convenient, real-time online interactions with your classmates/instructor.
Collective Table of Formulas All formulas in one place, for quick access anytime!
Dropbox: convenient electronic homework collection and file storage.
Homework peer review system Let students grade each other's homework. Coming soon!
Roar: Online test/homework taking software developed by students.

Collective Problem Solving

Instructors: increase the effectiveness of your teaching by discussing problem solutions online with your students. Keep these discussions for future reference and cross-posting. Here are some examples:

Rhea also features lists of on different topics such as

Virtual Poster Sessions

Increase the impact of your posters by creating a virtual poster session on Rhea. It's quick and easy if you already have a pdf file for your posters!

Group Pages

Student groups, special projects, and researh groups can create a Rhea page to coordinate the activities of the group, facilitate communications, and reach out to the Purdue community and beyond. Here are some group pages:

Collectively Created Presentations

With Rhea's wiki, you can work as a group to create a presentation. It is easy to add pictures, videos and hyperlinks, and you can make use of existing Rhea pages to enrich your presentation. When it's time to present, simply open your favorite web browser and present directly from the Rhea website. Here is an example:

Use of MATLAB in the Classroom

Discussion Topics

Do Purdue Professors do enough to prevent cheating?
For or against using +/- grades?
Let's discuss the availability of hw solutions online: Is it ethical to use them? Is it useful to use them? What should Professor's policy be about using them?
Click here to view all discussion topics

About Rhea and Rhea's software

How to's

Sandbox: a place to experiment at will.
where to begin
How can instructors use Rhea in their class?
How can students use Rhea?
Rhea Help Manual by Nate Orlo
Basic help
How to add elements to a page
How to type Math Equations
How to create different fonts
How to list the recent changes for a given course

Rhea Portal - Rhea

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