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

all typos and misteaks ;) by John Travis