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Revision as of 10:01, 24 June 2011

Meeting at Carriage House

June 24, 2011

Communication

IRC = Internet Relay Chat

  • Go to webchat.freenode.net and use channel '#webwork' (all lower case)
  • get a nickname and enter the capcha properly
  • IRC is a place to hang out and ask/answer questions related to Webwork


Dick Lane

The Problem Library

  • Looked at the webwork course on the PREP server 'PREP 2011 Calculus 3'
  • Discussed the design of various problems
  • Use COMMENT('blah','blah') after the macros have been loaded and before the end of the document. The strings will then show up in searches and in the blue box below the problem in the library browser.
  • Discussed several other ideas related to homework sets. (Set 'Lane-day2' demonstrated)
  • Showed 'Get a new version of this problem'.
    • Implemented by editing PGcourse.pl file located in the macros subdirectory for the particular course
    • Comment in or out as desired.
    • Generally, the first presentation of the problem is the one that will be graded and any other attempts with new random values are just for practice.
    • Showing how to add hints to problems
 END_TEXT
 BEGIN_HINT
 ..
 END_HINT
    • One may always want to add hints to all problems to at least include something like "See Professor" after several failed attempts.