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This wiki is for instructors using WeBWorK on-line homework in their courses and for those working on the development of WeBWorK. Students using WeBWorK for their homework should NOT register on this site (unless they wish to help with writing development software). The course instructor can give students the URL for their WeBWorK course. Usually this is a path to a server on their campus. Additional documentation for students can be reached via the "Students" link below.

WeBWorK News

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WeBWorK News Archive (before Aug 2010)

Overview

WeBWorK is an open source Perl-based system for delivering individualized homework problems over the web. By providing students with immediate feedback as to the correctness of their answers, students are encouraged to make multiple attempts until they succeed. By individualizing problems, cheating is discouraged. By providing instructors with real-time statistics, lesson plans can be customized to better serve students. WeBWorK is partially supported by the DUE Division of NSF. (See: Grants, awards, and support.)

• Introduction to WeBWorK (Newcomers start here.)
• Hosting WeBWorK courses on the MAA servers

Documentation

• Students — For students; how to use WeBWorK.
  Logging in — Notation, …

• Instructors — For instructors; how to use WeBWorK day to day.
  Overview— Homework sets — Class lists — Gateway tests — ( video tutorials and more), …

• Administrators — Installing, upgrading, and maintaining WeBWorK installations.
  Installation — Upgrading WeBWorK — WeBWorK on Live Media — Course Administration — LDAP — Troubleshooting, …

• Authors — For question authors and instructors: documents and examples on writing homework questions in WeBWorK's PG language.
  Background — Samples — MathObjects — Techniques — Subject Area Templates — POD — PGLab — Tagging, …

• Developers — Documents for WeBWorK developers.

Community

• Forums — Get answers to questions about all aspects of WeBWorK. Each forum has its own RSS feed, and registered users can elect to receive email copies of new posts.
• WeBWorK_Sites Google map and spread sheet of institutions using WeBWorK
• Video conferences (Alternate Wednesdays at 5pm EST.) Links to online video recordings.
• WeBWorK Consultants
  • WeBWorK Consultants, Workshops and Training Sessions,
  • List of WeBWorK Consultants,
  • List of WeBWorK Demonstration Workshops
• WeBWorK_logos
• Using WeBWorK — Moodle course for usage issues (Most of the content from this course is being moved onto this wiki.)
• Databases — Collections of various data related to WeBWorK. (Installations, PG macros, publications, etc.) (useful but needs updating)

• Assessment — Moodle course for WeBWorK assessment issues.
• Accessibility — Moodle course for WeBWorK accessibility issues.

Download WeBWorK

The software which hosts WeBWorK on a Unix server is open source and freely available. The server can run on nearly any flavor of Unix. To access the server a student or instructor can use any modern web browser on any platform.

• Download WeBWorK

Other items

• National Problem Library The NPL is a collection of 17,000+ problems freely available for each WeBWorK server.
  • See the Library Browser page for a description of how instructors can choose problems from the NPL.
• Bugzilla — View and report bugs in WeBWorK. (Bug Writing Guidelines )
• Moodle Integration — Documentation relating to Moodle WeBWorK integration.
• Working Groups/Tasks Working groups and their tasks, as well as open tasks.
• Contributors
• HowToEnterMathSymbols into the text in this wiki