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== Overview ==
 
* [[:File:Webwork_getting_started_2009_06.pdf|Getting Started]] A pdf (hardcopy) tutorial on managing a WeBWorK course
 
 
 
== Quick start creating courses ==
 
== Quick start creating courses ==
 
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|style="width: 33%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|Overview of Problem Libraries | Overview of Problem Libraries|List of Universities contributing problems. Now usually included in NPL.|Collection.png}}
 
|style="width: 33%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|Overview of Problem Libraries | Overview of Problem Libraries|List of Universities contributing problems. Now usually included in NPL.|Collection.png}}
|style="width: 33%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|National Problem Library | National Problem Library|Intro discusses the library. Main text is for administrators|Collection.png}}
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|style="width: 33%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|National Problem Library | Open Problem Library|Intro discusses the library. Main text is for administrators|Question-page.png}}
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|style="width: 33%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|Course Administration | Course Administration |details how to create and delete courses, import and export course databases,etc. |User-admin-48px.png}}
 
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|style="width: 33%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|Course Administration | Course Administration |details how to create and delete courses, import and export course databases,etc. |User-admin-48px.png}}
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|style="width: 33%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|Just-In-Time | Just-In-Time Assignments | Adaptive homework assignments (in development)|Gateway2.png}}
 
|style="width: 33%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|Gateway Tests and Quizzes | Gateway Tests and Quizzes|Setting up gateway tests|Gateway2.png}}
 
|style="width: 33%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|Gateway Tests and Quizzes | Gateway Tests and Quizzes|Setting up gateway tests|Gateway2.png}}
 
|style="width: 33%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|A day in the life of a WeBWorK instructor | A day in the life of a WeBWorK instructor|details on how one professor actually uses WeBWorK.|User-phd-48px.png}}
 
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|style="width: 33%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|Classlist Files | Classlist Files|Details about the use of classlists|Collection.png}}
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|style="width: 33%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|Classlist Files | Classlist Files|Details about the use of classlists|Classlist.png}}
|style="width: 33%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|Course Management | Course Management|Links to peges and videos about the use of WeBWorK|Collection.png}}
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|style="width: 33%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|Course Management | Course Management|Links to pages and videos about the use of WeBWorK|Management.png}}
|style="width: 33%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|Homework Sets |Homework Sets|Setting up and modifying homework|Collection.png}}
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===Tutorials===
 
===Tutorials===
 
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|style="width: 33%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|Set Definition Files | Set Definition Files|Managing Set Definition Files|Svn-icon-48px.jpg}}
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|style="width: 25%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|Set Definition Files | Set Definition Files|Managing Set Definition Files|Svn-icon-48px.jpg}}
|style="width: 33%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|Dates, Times, and Time Zones | Dates, Times, and Time Zones|Managing Dates, Times, and Time Zones|Collection.png}}
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|style="width: 25%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|Writing Your Own Homework Problems Using PGML | Intro To Writing Your Own Homework Problems Using PGML |A Gentle Introduction|Collection.png}}
|style="width: 33%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|Gateway Tests and Quizzes |Gateway Tests and Quizzes|Managing Gateway Tests and Quizzes|Collection.png}}
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|style="width: 25%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|Dates, Times, and Time Zones | Dates, Times, and Time Zones|Managing Dates, Times, and Time Zones|Hourglass2.png}}
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|style="width: 25%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|Gateway Tests and Quizzes |Gateway Tests and Quizzes|Managing Gateway Tests and Quizzes|Gateway2.png}}
 
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====Mor details for gateway tests====
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====More details for gateway tests====
 
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|style="width: 25%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|GatewayQuiz Technical Information and Philosophy | GatewayQuiz Technical Information and Philosophy| |Collection.png}}
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|style="width: 25%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|GatewayQuiz Technical Information and Philosophy | GatewayQuiz Technical Information and Philosophy| |Bridge-gate-new.png}}
|style="width: 25%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|Selecting Problems from Problem Groups | Selecting Problems from Problem Groups| |Collection.png}}
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|style="width: 25%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|Selecting Problems from Problem Groups | Selecting Problems from Problem Groups| |Bridge-gate-new.png}}
|style="width: 25%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|GatewayQuiz Assignment Problems |GatewayQuiz Assignment Problems| |Collection.png}}
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|style="width: 25%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|GatewayQuiz Assignment Problems |GatewayQuiz Assignment Problems| |Bridge-gate.png}}
|style="width: 25%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|Assignment Access Restrictions |Assignment Access Restrictions| |Collection.png}}
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|style="width: 25%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|Assignment Access Restrictions |Assignment Access Restrictions| |Bridge-gate-no.png}}
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===Optional Modules===
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|style="width: 25%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|Achievements |Achievements | Setting up and using the Achievement system | Achievement_Locked.png}}
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|style="width: 25%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|Achievement Evaluator |Achievement Evaluator | Modifying and creating achievements | Achievement_Locked.png}}
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|style="width: 25%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|Achievement Items |Achievement Items | Using achievement items | Achievement_Locked.png}}
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|style="width: 25%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|Reduced Scoring | Reduced Scoring| |Reduced-scoring.png}}
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|style="width: 25%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|Conditional Release| Conditional Release | Forcing sets to only release after other sets are finished. | Scoring.png}}
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|style="width: 25%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|Show Me Another | Show Me Another | Show students how to solve a different version of a problem. | Scoring.png}}
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|style="width: 25%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|Periodic Randomization | Periodic Randomization | Reseed a problem after a certain number of attempts. | Scoring.png}}
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===Other instructions===
 
===Other instructions===
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|style="width: 25%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|Scoring | Scoring| |Scoring.png}}
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|style="width: 25%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|Sending Email |Sending Email| |Gartoon-mail-48px.png}}
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|style="width: 25%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|CAPA Physics Problems |CAPA Physics Problems|using questions translated from Rochester's CAPA physics collection |Physics2.png}}
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|style="width: 25%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|Screen casts | Tutorial screen casts|For Course management, etc |Scoring.png}}
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* [[CAPA Physics Problems]] -- using questions translated from Rochester's CAPA physics collection
 
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* [[Reduced Scoring]]
 
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|style="width: 25%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|HOWTOs | HOWTOs| Problems sets, libraries, statistics, reporting bugs, etc|Reduced-scoring.png}}
 
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|style="width: 25%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|Technical |Technical|Permissions and Header files |Gartoon-mail-48px.png}}
== Managing Course Rosters ==
 
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* [[Classlists | Management of Course Rosters]]
 
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*[http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dp7p9h5_837c5zcddd7 Management of Course Rosters -- Google docs version]
 
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* [[Classlist Files]] format details
 
   
== Other tasks ==
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== Links ==
* [[Scoring]]
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* [[:File:Webwork_getting_started_2009_06.pdf|Getting Started]] A pdf (hardcopy) tutorial on managing a WeBWorK course
* [[Sending Email]]
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* [http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dp7p9h5_837c5zcddd7 Management of Course Rosters -- Google docs version]
 
== Screen casts ==
 
* [[Course Management]] (screencasts)
 
* See also [[Video_conferences]]. Some of these are on course management topics.
 
 
== HOWTOs ==
 
 
 
* [[An explanation of problem source files, problems, problem sets, and problem libraries]]
 
* [[What to do if you find a bug in a problem]]
 
* [[How to change a student's problem seed]]
 
* [[How to manage email sent via the email instructor button effectively]] (Use gmail!)
 
* [[Using "student progress" and "statistics" to prepare for class]]
 
   
== Technical ==
 
* [[Permissions]]
 
* [[Header Files and Snippets]]
 
   
 
[[Category:Instructors]]
 
[[Category:Instructors]]

Revision as of 14:40, 2 May 2016

Quick start creating courses

Collection.png
A Gallery of Courses
Existing courses using WeBWorK Assignments
Hallmarks of mathematical modelling.svg.png
Model Courses
Creating your own course from modules


Most commonly viewed instructor pages

Collection.png
Overview of Problem Libraries
List of Universities contributing problems. Now usually included in NPL.
Question-page.png
Open Problem Library
Intro discusses the library. Main text is for administrators
User-admin-48px.png
Course Administration
details how to create and delete courses, import and export course databases,etc.
Gateway2.png
Just-In-Time Assignments
Adaptive homework assignments (in development)
Gateway2.png
Gateway Tests and Quizzes
Setting up gateway tests
User-phd-48px.png
A day in the life of a WeBWorK instructor
details on how one professor actually uses WeBWorK.
Classlist.png
Classlist Files
Details about the use of classlists
Management.png
Course Management
Links to pages and videos about the use of WeBWorK
Homework.png
Homework Sets
Setting up and modifying homework

Creating and managing Homework sets

Tutorials

Svn-icon-48px.jpg
Set Definition Files
Managing Set Definition Files
Collection.png
Intro To Writing Your Own Homework Problems Using PGML
A Gentle Introduction
Hourglass2.png
Dates, Times, and Time Zones
Managing Dates, Times, and Time Zones
Gateway2.png
Gateway Tests and Quizzes
Managing Gateway Tests and Quizzes

More details for gateway tests

Bridge-gate-new.png
GatewayQuiz Technical Information and Philosophy
Bridge-gate-new.png
Selecting Problems from Problem Groups
Bridge-gate.png
GatewayQuiz Assignment Problems
Bridge-gate-no.png
Assignment Access Restrictions

Optional Modules

Achievement Locked.png
Achievements
Setting up and using the Achievement system
Achievement Locked.png
Achievement Evaluator
Modifying and creating achievements
Achievement Locked.png
Achievement Items
Using achievement items
Reduced-scoring.png
Reduced Scoring
Scoring.png
Conditional Release
Forcing sets to only release after other sets are finished.
Scoring.png
Show Me Another
Show students how to solve a different version of a problem.
Scoring.png
Periodic Randomization
Reseed a problem after a certain number of attempts.

Other instructions

Scoring.png
Scoring
Gartoon-mail-48px.png
Sending Email
Physics2.png
CAPA Physics Problems
using questions translated from Rochester's CAPA physics collection
Scoring.png
Tutorial screen casts
For Course management, etc
Reduced-scoring.png
HOWTOs
Problems sets, libraries, statistics, reporting bugs, etc
Gartoon-mail-48px.png
Technical
Permissions and Header files
Scoring.png
Essay Questions
Using and grading essay questions

Links