Meeting at Carriage House

June 23, 2011

Wireless

Goal

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

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.

all typos and misteaks ;) by John Travis