PREP 2011 Notes June 23

Meeting at Carriage House

June 23, 2011

Wireless

• maa-ch
• euler2007

Goal

[Groups]

• course manifest
• README
• syllabus
• course_info.txt
• minimum of 12 assignments

General Workflow

• find good NPL problems to fill out assignment
• improve them by writing solutions, hints, converting to math objects, etc.
• write new problems if necessary
• write set definition files
• save files to a nicely named directory relative to your model course
  • if copied from NPL, reference the original problem
• testing, including export to pdf
• export

Daily Outline

• Morning: Talks
• Afternoon: Work
• 5:00pm status reports

MarilouM

Using Webwork for Mathematics with Business Decisions

• Share course materials with colleagues as one large zipped file with all dates, etc. set in a reasonable manner
  • Open dates all the same before the start of the course
  • Due dates starting one week into the course for the first set and then adding a week for each additional set
  • Answer due date set to far into the future
• Editing course header and set header files
  • Discussion regarding how many attempts students should be allowed to have on each question
    • New feature will tell students if they are resubmitting previously submitted attempts
  • Course header files contain info such as due dates and links to the actual problems used. Text.
  • Set header files contain info about the actual assignment. Perl. Can do two separate files (?) to get HTML into these files but it is better to use Perl constructs so that any printed version will also display correctly.
  • Problem collection files
• Teachers Toolkit
  • Templates
  • Hard copy collection of assignments for the course
  • Problem Index
  • Roster
  • Quick Start Guide
  • Tutorial

all typos and misteaks ;) by John Travis