Hi everybody. Math Depat U Utah will use Strang's Linear Algebra for textbook starting next semester.
It is highly appreciated if you have some problems ready and are willing to share, either a compressed file or a pointer to NPL. Thank you so much for your help.
Well after my rather lengthy reply I just realized you are talking about Strang's linear algebra text, not his calculus text. Well if you want to make his (free) calculus text available to your calc students here is how to do it:
If you go to my differential equations course you can see Strang's text in the left hand menu.
To replicate this you would need to download the pdf's for each chapter and put them on your server in a new folder in your webwork courses folder.
Ours are stored in opt/webwork/courses/strangcalculus/html/. They have to go in the html directory of a course so that you can make them visible to students. Add the hide_directory file to this course in opt/webwork/courses/strangcalculus/ so that strangcalculus does not appear in your list of courses.
Now you need to get the text into the menu. In opt/webwork/webwork2/conf/templates/math you will find a file called system.template.
Make a copy of this file in a new subdirectory, for differential equations I called ours alfredDE, so it is now there is a copy of system.template in
opt/webwork/webwork2/conf/templates/alfredDE/ and edited it to make the files visible. I also added some hyperlinks to other resources I use. I pasted the contents of this file onto the end of this message, it is quite long, but I think it easy to figure out how where I added the strangcalculus stuff.
Now you need to add your new template to the list of available templates by editing opt/webwork/webwork2/lib/WeBWorK/Constants.pm. In their you will find a line that starts with
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followed by a lot of code, in that code there is a line for
values => [qw(math math2 ur moodle union alfred alfredDE)]
that you want to change.
In ours I have added alfred and alfredDE, these are the two directories in opt/webwork/webwork2/conf/templates/ where I have stored system.template files.
Reboot the server, and then you can go into your course and you will have a new theme under course configuration. Easy! :)
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<option value="http://webwork.alfred.edu/webwork2_course_files/strangcalculus/Strang-14-1.pdf">--14.1 Double Integrals</option>
<option value="http://webwork.alfred.edu/webwork2_course_files/strangcalculus/Strang-14-2.pdf">--14.2 Changing to Better Coordinates</option>
<option value="http://webwork.alfred.edu/webwork2_course_files/strangcalculus/Strang-14-3.pdf">--14.3 Triple Integrals</option>
<option value="http://webwork.alfred.edu/webwork2_course_files/strangcalculus/Strang-14-4.pdf">--14.4 Cylindrical and Spherical Coordinates</option>
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<option value="http://webwork.alfred.edu/webwork2_course_files/strangcalculus/Strang-15-1.pdf">--15.1 Vector Fields</option>
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If you go to my differential equations course you can see Strang's text in the left hand menu.
To replicate this you would need to download the pdf's for each chapter and put them on your server in a new folder in your webwork courses folder.
Ours are stored in opt/webwork/courses/strangcalculus/html/. They have to go in the html directory of a course so that you can make them visible to students. Add the hide_directory file to this course in opt/webwork/courses/strangcalculus/ so that strangcalculus does not appear in your list of courses.
Now you need to get the text into the menu. In opt/webwork/webwork2/conf/templates/math you will find a file called system.template.
Make a copy of this file in a new subdirectory, for differential equations I called ours alfredDE, so it is now there is a copy of system.template in
opt/webwork/webwork2/conf/templates/alfredDE/ and edited it to make the files visible. I also added some hyperlinks to other resources I use. I pasted the contents of this file onto the end of this message, it is quite long, but I think it easy to figure out how where I added the strangcalculus stuff.
Now you need to add your new template to the list of available templates by editing opt/webwork/webwork2/lib/WeBWorK/Constants.pm. In their you will find a line that starts with
$WeBWorK::ContentGenerator::Instructor::Config::ConfigValues = [
followed by a lot of code, in that code there is a line for
values => [qw(math math2 ur moodle union alfred alfredDE)]
that you want to change.
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<option value="http://webwork.alfred.edu/webwork2_course_files/strangcalculus/Strang-14-1.pdf">--14.1 Double Integrals</option>
<option value="http://webwork.alfred.edu/webwork2_course_files/strangcalculus/Strang-14-2.pdf">--14.2 Changing to Better Coordinates</option>
<option value="http://webwork.alfred.edu/webwork2_course_files/strangcalculus/Strang-14-3.pdf">--14.3 Triple Integrals</option>
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<option value="http://webwork.alfred.edu/webwork2_course_files/strangcalculus/Strang-15-2.pdf">--15.2 Line Integrals</option>
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<option value="http://webwork.alfred.edu/webwork2_course_files/strangcalculus/Strang-15-4.pdf">--15.4 Surface Integrals</option>
<option value="http://webwork.alfred.edu/webwork2_course_files/strangcalculus/Strang-15-5.pdf">--15.5 The Divergence Theorem</option>
<option value="http://webwork.alfred.edu/webwork2_course_files/strangcalculus/Strang-15-6.pdf">--15.6 Stoke's Theorem and the curl of F</option>
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Thank you very much anyway. You still taught me a lot :) Best, Ping