** Using WeBWorK **

1. Build set.

2. Set open date to the instant my class would end (usually about 2 days in the future)

3. To make sure everything was OK, go do the set myself before it opens.

WW1.8 allowed me (the instructor) to work a set before it was open. As far as I can tell, WW2 does not. My workaround is to open the set immediately, but make it invisible to students. Then I can work it because it's open, but students can't work it because they can't see it. The problem with that is that I have to remember to make it visible manually at the time I want to open it. I will surely forget to do this at some point.

Is there a way to have a set automatically become visible at a certain time?

Alternatively, is there a way for a professor to work a set that's not yet open?

Thanks,

Doug

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John

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I log in and, as professor, I can see that there is a closed set. In gray, it says "will open on 09/03/04 at 10:00am." I click on the set, and it gives me a problem list, along with the message: "This set is hidden from students." So far so good. But then I click a problem and I get the dreaded pink stripe: "This problem is not available because the problem set that contains it is not yet open."

I get the same message if I go to it via:

Homework sets editor ---> [click the problem] ---> "Try it"

Finally, here is the permissionLevels hash from global.conf:

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my $student = 0; my $ta = 5; my $professor = 10; %permissionLevels = ( report_bugs => $student, view_multiple_sets => $ta, view_unopened_sets => $ta, view_unpublished_sets => $ta, view_answers => $ta, become_student => $professor, access_instructor_tools => $ta, create_and_delete_problem_sets => $professor, modify_problem_sets => $professor, assign_problem_sets => $professor, modify_student_data => $professor, score_sets => $professor, send_mail => $professor, modify_classlist_files => $professor, modify_set_def_files => $professor, modify_scoring_files => $professor, create_and_delete_courses => $professor, fix_course_databases => $professor, ); ---------------------------------------------------

From the looks of things, I should be able to "view" the unopened sets, which I guess I can (if "view" means "view the existence of"). Are these the only possible keys for the permissionLevels hash? If not, where can I find a complete list of possible keys?

Thanks again,

Doug

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Or, you can work the problems in the homework editor and select edit the problem.

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It seems that you have an older version of some files, especially global.conf. Yours doesn't list the one permission value I mentioned. If you update from cvs the new version is global.conf.dist (which is good so it doesn't overwrite any local customizations). You then need to merge your local values with a current version of global.conf.dist to make a new global.conf.

John

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