WeBWorK AMI from 2013

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Amazon Cloud allows users to try WeBWorK for free for a year. After that year the cost is 6 cents per hour of actual use.

Getting your Amazon Cloud Account

1. Go to Amazon EC2 and create an account.
2. Fill in your login credentials
3. Go to Amazon Web Services signup
4. Enter payment information. You may be charged a penny to validate your credit card information, but no real charges will occur until a year from signup.
5. Amazon will verify your identity by phone, so make sure you have a phone or cell-phone nearby. Once you start the initialization, you will be asked to enter a PIN via the phone. This completes the verification.

Getting WeBWorK

1. Log in with your email and password
2. Make sure you choose the US East (N. Virginia region). This can be changed if necessary at the top right of your screen. There is a drop-down menu next to your name that allows you to choose the region.
3. Launch with Classic Wizard (which is the standard setting) and click continue
4. Choose "CommunityAMIs", which should be the third tab from the left.
5. Enter 'webwork' in the searchbox and set the images to "public images". The search may take a while (up to a minute or two), but at some point WeBWorK will appear in the list. Once WeBWorK appears click select.
6. On the next screen hit continue at the bottom of the page. You may need to hide your dock on your computer to enable you to enlarge the screen enough to be able to see the continue button.