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Templates

Most people write problems starting from templates. Problems from the OPL can be modified to suit individual needs, or existing problem templates can be used to create new problems.

Basic Information

WeBWorK problems should be written with the use of MathObjects. Most of the templates mentioned above will include the MathObject Macros (recognizable by the line "MathObjects.pl" in the LoadMacros section of the code). For those who would like to read up on the basics of coding problems the following pages are recommended:

Templates, programming examples, and problem libraries from the University of Lethbridge

Sean Fitzpatrick (sean.fitzpatrick@uleth.ca) contributed the following:

This summer, one of my colleagues hired a student to help her go through all of the libraries, marcos, contexts, etc. and put together a collection of templates and programming examples. I got permission from her to put everything on a public GitHub repository; you can find the fruits of their efforts here:

https://github.com/ULeth-Math-CS/WeBWorK

The programming examples are not questions. They're an attempt at producing an exhaustive list of every possible way of inputting and evaluating something using the various contexts. In the documentation there's a nice flowchart for deciding which context to use for a given problem.

I hope this is useful. It's the beginnings of what will hopefully be a longer project (done mostly over summers), so it's not yet as polished as it could be.

Reference documents and manuals

  • Problem Authoring Videos, recordings from the PREP 2015 Problem Authoring Workshop.
  • Applets, how to embed Flash and Java applets into WeBWorK questions.
  • SequentialProblems now replaced by Scaffold revealing the problem one step at a time
  • POD -- POD (for WeBWorK/PG 2.15) = "plain old documentation" -- original documentation embedded in the code files -- this is the place to find the most complete and most technical description of macro behaviors.
  • WeBWorK Problem Authoring Tutorial aimed at people who already know TeX, but need to learn about Perl, PG, and MathObjects (pdf file).
  • Customize Course This page includes a bit of code that allows student to obtain a new version of a problem.
  • Notes on training authors, and suggestions for further documentation-- Sam Hathaway
  • The Good Questions project at Cornell University [1]
  • Converting CAPA problems for use with WeBWorK (This article has been retained as a historical document.)