In the section Overview and Philosophy several short discussions are presented on the rationale for using MAPLE, and ideas about using MAPLE effectively.

Here are a few major threads from those discussions

• MAPLE needs to be called upon at least once a week if students are to maintain contact with it as a functioning tool.
  
• Students being introduced to MAPLE should deal with only a small set of important commands
  
• In advanced courses, very little class discussion of MAPLE may be needed if examples are available (on the web, for example) which use the relevant commands but in a calculation different from the one needed to do an assigned homework problem
  
• In intermediate or advanced physics courses, it can be a really good idea to give up one lecture for a 2-hour lab session as the occasion arises. Students and instructor then work together to solve a problem, create an animation, etc. in MAPLE. This is especially important where students may be new to MAPLE or rusty in using it. There is a different relation between instructor and students in this setting, which is likely to be valuable to both.
  

Several persons with experience teaching specific intermediate courses have collected ideas, information and references, under the section Some Specific Courses.

The section Resources and Examples deals with general MAPLE resources, a short guide for starting up in MAPLE, and specific physics problems worked out in MAPLE, from the Physics Resource Packets Project .