** Using WeBWorK **

If an instructor uses the web interface to create a new problem from an old one, the new one is saved with the web server's owner and group. This means that the instructor can't login and view the problem or change its ownership. The instructor can't move problems between his/her own courses either for the same reason.

Can the instructor get a directory listing through the web interface of his/her own created problems?

How can instructors keep track of the problems they create? Must they write down their names on paper in order to be able to use them on future homework sets? Or must they right away put newly created problems into a set definition file in order not to loose track of them?

This issue is coming up because we now have instructors that have shown some interest in creating new problems.

Thanks, Lars.

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Hi Lars,

If you run the command

chmod -R g+xs templates

in the main directory of a course, then all new files created in the templates directory or any of it's subdirectories will be given the same group that the templates directory has. The professor should be in this group so that they can then move or copy the new files.

Arnie

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