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seems to be no "demoCourse" that came with the standard installation of
WebWork 1. It would be good to see how to get something up and running
and then modify it.
Good point. I've added a course called "modelCourse" to the CVS at
webwork2/courses/modelCourse that might help to some extent. (Remember
to use cvs update -d to get the new directory.)
Another aid might be to login to http://webwork.math.rochester.edu/webwork2/maa101
(or maa102, etc.) and use profa as login and password. This will let
you look at an existing course and how it works. The view from the File
Manager shows you the underlying directory structure. The main item of
interest is the templates directory which either contains the templates
for problems (as in WW1.9) or contains links to read-only copies of
libraries.
Creating a new problem from an existing one and adding it to a set is
currently a bit cumbersome -- it involves two steps. While editing a
problem similar to the one you wish to create use the "Save as" button
to save the problem to a new file. The name of the file should be the
path relative to the "templates" directory. So for example prob4_new.pg would be a legitimate name as would newSet/prob4_new.pg
Now to include this in the current set. Go to the library and from the
"select problem collection" menu choose either "My problems" for the
first example above or "newSet" for the second example. Click the view
button and add the desired problems to your set.
You can then continue to edit these problems in the current set. (Click
the "Edit target set" button on the Library page, or enter from the
"Hmwk Sets Editor".)
When you are editing a problem set you can create a new blank problem
template by clicking the "Create blank problem" link at the bottom of
the page. You still need to save this problem with a new name and then
add it back in to the current set -- it would be nice to have a short
cut that allows you to create a new problem and add it to the current
set in one step, but it's not there yet.
Finally, if you have lots of problems of your own, or you like to work
off line. You can create the problems anywhere with any editor and then
upload them to the templates directory using the File Manager. Problems
must have the extension .pg and they must be in a sudirectory of the
templates directory in order to be able to find them using the library
browser.
Hope this helps.
-- Mike
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