PREP 2014 Question Authoring

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Participants in the 2014 MAA PREP course are encouraged to post questions about authoring and question management in this forum. All community members are encouraged to participate with solutions.

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Discussion	Started by	Last post	Replies
Access to files on PREP 2014 Workshop	Susanna Epp 29 Jun 2014	Susanna Epp 29 Jun 2014	0
Allowing a comma instead of a dot for a decimal point (and other notation variants)	Michele Titcombe 16 Jun 2014	Davide Cervone 18 Jun 2014	3
ans_rule vs. $var->ans_rule	Gavin LaRose 13 Jun 2014	Gavin LaRose 13 Jun 2014	0
Answer checkers with Context("LimitedComplex")	Murphy Waggoner 4 Jul 2014	Davide Cervone 21 Jul 2014	10
answer in required form	Joel Trussell 12 Jun 2014	Paul Pearson 12 Jun 2014	1
answerHints message doesn't appear	Chrissy Safranski 19 Aug 2014	Chrissy Safranski 20 Aug 2014	2
Balance between student thought and careful programming in questions of the type "Find the ...	Murphy Waggoner 23 Jun 2014	Davide Cervone 26 Jun 2014	6
Can WEIGHTED_ANS be used with essay_cmp?	Murphy Waggoner 5 Jul 2014	Murphy Waggoner 20 Jul 2014	3
Conjectures? with complex variables?	Murphy Waggoner 8 Jul 2014	Murphy Waggoner 8 Jul 2014	0
Constructing arrays in PGML, and short answer blocks	Adam Graham-Squire 25 Jun 2014	Davide Cervone 1 Jul 2014	1
Customizing error messages	Michele Titcombe 16 Jun 2014	Davide Cervone 19 Jun 2014	4
debugging graphics and general	Joel Trussell 8 Sep 2014	Joel Trussell 8 Sep 2014	4
diffeq/FormulaUpToConstants problem	Chrissy Safranski 5 Jul 2014	Chrissy Safranski 7 Jul 2014	3
Differences in display between our WeBWork and the MAA's	Murphy Waggoner 24 Jun 2014	Murphy Waggoner 26 Jun 2014	5
disabling functions	Joel Trussell 28 Dec 2014	Joel Trussell 29 Dec 2014	4
Display reduced formulas in Tex	Joel Trussell 3 Aug 2014	Davide Cervone 4 Aug 2014	3
Does \{$a->ans_rule()\} associate $a with the answer blank?	Fred Brulois 16 Jun 2014	Davide Cervone 18 Jun 2014	4
Draggable proof - problem after student checks answer	Murphy Waggoner 3 Aug 2014	Murphy Waggoner 3 Aug 2014	0
Drawing in WebWork	Murphy Waggoner 9 Jun 2014	Arnold Pizer 11 Jun 2014	2
dynamic graphs - how to add title, plot	Joel Trussell 4 Sep 2014	Joel Trussell 4 Sep 2014	0
Edit2 vs. Edit3	Susanna Epp 29 Jun 2014	Davide Cervone 30 Jun 2014	1
Essay box and PGML	Michele Titcombe 27 Jun 2014	Michele Titcombe 28 Jun 2014	2
evaluating a function at multiple values in an array	Gavin LaRose 13 Jun 2014	Davide Cervone 17 Jun 2014	3
Exactness: student answers and display of expressions	Murphy Waggoner 4 Aug 2014	Murphy Waggoner 13 Aug 2014	4
force anser to be number	Joel Trussell 1 Oct 2014	Joel Trussell 5 Oct 2014	12
General question about PGML	Adam Graham-Squire 25 Jun 2014	Davide Cervone 1 Jul 2014	1
GeoGebra applet not loading	Nicholas Nguyen 22 Jul 2014	Nicholas Nguyen 25 Jul 2014	4
get new version error	Joel Trussell 27 Oct 2014	Joel Trussell 27 Oct 2014	1
Got some questions written...can we set up a place for people to test out each others	Murphy Waggoner 22 Jun 2014	Murphy Waggoner 23 Jun 2014	3
How are mathematical expressions displayed with radio button options?	Mary Cameron 17 Jun 2014	Davide Cervone 20 Jun 2014	4
How can an answer be a list of linear equations?	Mary Cameron 30 Jun 2014	Mary Cameron 4 Oct 2014	8
How do we do (or look up) common LaTeX commands like itemize?	Aba Mbirika 14 Jun 2014	Davide Cervone 15 Jun 2014	1
How does one suppress terms with coefficient 0 in text display?	Michele Titcombe 11 Jun 2014	Davide Cervone 12 Jun 2014	4
How dynamic can a question be?	Murphy Waggoner 9 Jun 2014	Arnold Pizer 11 Jun 2014	2
How to get draggableProof.pl macro to work outside of the PREP_2014 course?	Aba Mbirika 4 Sep 2014	Aba Mbirika 4 Sep 2014	1
Identifying MathObjects version problems in Library	Michele Titcombe 11 Jun 2014	Gavin LaRose 12 Jun 2014	1
ImplicitEquation - still want to know if it is worth the time	Murphy Waggoner 26 Jun 2014	Davide Cervone 29 Jun 2014	2
Inconsistent error messages for single vs unions of intervals	Mary Cameron 19 Jun 2014	Mary Cameron 20 Jun 2014	3
Interactive PG Lab	Mike Daven 13 Jun 2014	Davide Cervone 15 Jun 2014	1
Interface MATLAB with Webwork	Joel Trussell 1 Oct 2014	Joel Trussell 1 Oct 2014	0
Interpreting ->	Susanna Epp 14 Jun 2014	Davide Cervone 15 Jun 2014	1
Is it possible to change the default LaTeX to Plain TeX or AMS-TeX?	Fred Brulois 14 Jun 2014	Davide Cervone 15 Jun 2014	1
Is there a way to turn off shuffling on matching questions?	Murphy Waggoner 9 Jul 2014	Murphy Waggoner 20 Jul 2014	4
kronecker delta and other functions	Joel Trussell 16 Jun 2014	Davide Cervone 25 Aug 2014	16
Math mode in popup menus	Michele Titcombe 16 Jun 2014	Davide Cervone 19 Jun 2014	5
Multivariable functions	Adam Graham-Squire 17 Jun 2014	Gavin LaRose 17 Jun 2014	1
new version button	Joel Trussell 19 Jun 2014	Davide Cervone 1 Jul 2014	1
new version button	Joel Trussell 9 Aug 2014	Davide Cervone 25 Aug 2014	7
Only last of several UNORDERED_ANS pairs works	Mary Cameron 12 Oct 2014	Joel Trussell 13 Oct 2014	5
Please move questions to the main problem authoring forum	John Travis 16 Mar 2015	John Travis 16 Mar 2015	0
Pop-up list question	Susanna Epp 29 Jun 2014	Susanna Epp 29 Jun 2014	2
Prime notation in student answers	Chrissy Safranski 25 Jun 2014	Davide Cervone 28 Jun 2014	1
Problem downloading a homework set for reuse elsewhere	Susanna Epp 26 Jun 2014	Davide Cervone 28 Jun 2014	10
problem testing function as user defined values	Joel Trussell 5 Nov 2014	Joel Trussell 5 Nov 2014	0
problem with parserCustomization.pl	Joel Trussell 7 Nov 2014	Joel Trussell 7 Nov 2014	0
Problems with highlighting and ans_array	Mike Daven 19 Jun 2014	Davide Cervone 20 Jun 2014	1
Reduced fractions in problem text and in student answers	Paul Pearson 16 Jun 2014	Davide Cervone 18 Jun 2014	1
refreshing dynamic graphs	Joel Trussell 31 Aug 2014	Davide Cervone 2 Sep 2014	5
removing multiple variables - context vector	Joel Trussell 24 Aug 2014	Davide Cervone 25 Aug 2014	1
round-off error and rounding	Gavin LaRose 16 Jun 2014	Genevieve Toutain 4 Aug 2014	1
searching for problem sets	Joel Trussell 25 Jun 2014	Chrissy Safranski 25 Jun 2014	2
setting test points	Joel Trussell 3 Feb 2015	Davide Cervone 4 Feb 2015	6
Simplifying output of automatic differentiation	Nicholas Nguyen 21 Jun 2014	Davide Cervone 24 Jun 2014	7
Strings and Error Messages	Chrissy Safranski 24 Jun 2014	Chrissy Safranski 25 Jun 2014	6
substitute j for i	Joel Trussell 17 Jun 2014	Davide Cervone 27 Aug 2014	14
unionLists not behaving as expected	Murphy Waggoner 4 Jul 2014	Davide Cervone 6 Jul 2014	3
using student answers to generate output	Joel Trussell 22 Sep 2014	Joel Trussell 22 Sep 2014	2
WeBWorK Problems for a Contemporary (General Education) Math Course?	Nicholas Nguyen 15 Jul 2014	Nicholas Nguyen 15 Jul 2014	0
Which macros to load (in general)?	Aba Mbirika 1 Jul 2014	Paul Pearson 1 Jul 2014	1
Workshop 4 AM, Problem 30 doesn't work on our server	Murphy Waggoner 27 Jul 2014	Murphy Waggoner 27 Jul 2014	1