In a
partnership with Runestone Academy, we are offering free WeBWorK hosting
for the Fall. If you would like a WeBWorK course, contact me (alex.jordan@pcc.edu)
to express your interest. I will initialize a course for you, and offer
some assistance with setting things up if you are a first-time WeBWorK
user. Depending on how many people take us up on this, I may be able to
help you customize your course.
For a
more general Runestone Academy blog post and some demonstration courses, see:
https://www.runestoneinteractive.com/2020/08/23/webwork.html
https://www.runestoneinteractive.com/2020/08/23/webwork.html
Again,
this is free for the Fall. First of all, we know that in this era of
remote teaching, some faculty have not been able to find an online
homework solution. Especially one that has no cost. So at one level this
is an emergency service response for the times we are in.
Second,
we will use this effort as an experiment to determine what server and
manpower expenses are. For disclosure, starting in 2021, this would
become a funded service. It may cost something (per course, not per
student), or we may have success in finding public funding. If you use
this service in the Fall but do not want to pay for it in the
Winter/Spring, remember that this is vanilla WeBWorK and all your
content is easily ported to another place should the need arise.