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Randomization of questions - using PGML and popUps	Sergio Chaves 9 Jul 2020	Sergio Chaves 10 Jul 2020	2
Scaffolded problem and number of attempts.	Sergio Chaves 3 Feb 2021	Sergio Chaves 4 Feb 2021	2
Using multidimensional arrays	Sergio Chaves 4 May 2023	Glenn Rice 4 May 2023	1
error at bottom of problem	Sheldon Newhouse 16 Aug 2012	Arnold Pizer 19 Aug 2012	5
Antiderivatives and "Can't solve for adaptive parameters"	Sherman Wong 19 Apr 2010	Sherman Wong 20 Apr 2010	4
Variable Assignments and Answers Read From a File	Sherman Wong 9 Jun 2010	Boyd Duffee 4 Jan 2011	8
How to enter/check ordered list	Siman Wong 14 May 2011	Davide Cervone 16 May 2011	2
how to check two different answers	Siman Wong 12 Aug 2011	Gavin LaRose 14 Aug 2011	1
how to produce variable-size tables	Siman Wong 9 Nov 2011	Siman Wong 10 Nov 2011	2
bug in problems?	Siman Wong 18 Oct 2009	Imre Tuba 20 Oct 2009	1
notation config file?	Siman Wong 9 May 2011	Siman Wong 9 May 2011	0
How to refer to another problem	Siman Wong 19 May 2011	Michael Gage 19 May 2011	1
cannot load marcos	Siman Wong 7 Jun 2011	Alex Jordan 19 Nov 2013	10
how to pick a random element from a list	Siman Wong 7 Jun 2011	Gavin LaRose 8 Jun 2011	1
matrices with algebraic entries	Siman Wong 27 Jul 2011	Siman Wong 27 Jul 2011	0
how to turn off messages	Siman Wong 19 Aug 2011	Siman Wong 19 Aug 2011	3
How to check 3 elements out of a list	Siman Wong 17 Sep 2011	Gavin LaRose 20 Sep 2011	1
How to align displayed equations?	Siman Wong 15 Oct 2011	Dick Lane 19 Oct 2011	6
How to use variables/tex codes in solutions	Siman Wong 15 Oct 2011	Dick Lane 16 Oct 2011	2
"Operands of '*' can't be words"	Siman Wong 21 Oct 2011	Gavin LaRose 25 Oct 2011	1
non-commutative variables	Siman Wong 10 Nov 2011	Davide Cervone 7 Jul 2012	11
custom answer checker with multiple inputs	Siman Wong 25 Feb 2012	Christopher Heckman 20 Jun 2014	8
Solution with multiple cases	Siman Wong 16 Dec 2012	Djun Kim 16 Dec 2012	2
global config file + overriding two-column in hard copies	Siman Wong 27 Jun 2013	John Jones 29 Jun 2013	1
multi-part problems: printing + weight	Siman Wong 2 Jul 2013	Siman Wong 2 Jul 2013	0
/webwork2/instructorXMLHandler: Forbidden	Siman Wong 7 Oct 2020	Nathan Wallach 7 Oct 2020	3
MathObjects Methods	Siman Wong 10 Oct 2020	Danny Glin 15 Oct 2020	1
"This problem file was empty!"	Siman Wong 12 Jan 2023	Siman Wong 12 Jan 2023	2
missing braces	Siman Wong 19 Mar 2023	Andrew Parker 19 Mar 2023	1
NumberWithUnits Failure	Simon Wanderer 9 Jul 2018	Davide Cervone 22 Jul 2018	4
Intervals or Lists with Strings (and braces)	Spyro Roubos 19 May 2013	Davide Cervone 22 May 2013	8
Problem with LimitedPolynomial	Stacy Hoehn 20 Jul 2013	Stacy Hoehn 26 Jul 2013	2
parsermultianswer.pl	Stacy Hoehn 29 Jun 2021	Stacy Hoehn 30 Jun 2021	4
Webwork Warning when using HINT	Stefania Tracogna 25 Oct 2008	Davide Cervone 3 Nov 2008	5
full_partial_grader	Stefania Tracogna 20 Sep 2010	Arnold Pizer 22 Sep 2010	4
Loading Prototype library kills CSS	Stephen Corwin 24 Nov 2015	Stephen Corwin 26 Nov 2015	1
Using Javascript in a WeBWorK problem	Steve Dalton 8 Jan 2015	Steve Dalton 8 Jan 2015	0
Using a Canvas Applet in a problem	Steve Dalton 6 Feb 2015	Paul Seeburger 2 Mar 2015	1
A bug in Moodle webwork question type	Steven McKay 5 Sep 2008	Davide Cervone 5 Sep 2008	3
Additional bug in Webwork Question Server?	Steven McKay 6 Sep 2008	Steven McKay 8 Sep 2008	4
Selecting a random set of questions from a list	Steven McKay 18 Aug 2009	Steven McKay 19 Aug 2009	2
Numerical Quadrature Formulas	Steven McKay 15 Sep 2009	Davide Cervone 24 Sep 2009	6
Problem with test_points	Steven McKay 8 Oct 2009	Steven McKay 8 Oct 2009	2
A question about custom answer checkers	Steven McKay 22 Oct 2009	Arnold Pizer 23 Oct 2009	3
Library Browser Render Issues	Steven Marshall 7 Jan 2020	Steven Marshall 13 Jan 2020	5
Provided value "ZZZ-Inserted Text" is not in my subject taxonomy.	Steven Marshall 29 Jun 2020	Michael Gage 29 Jun 2020	1
Reordering problems/3D graphics	Steven Xiao 5 Oct 2017	Steven Xiao 9 Oct 2017	2
Regex delimiters	Steven Fiedler 21 May 2021	Alex Jordan 21 May 2021	1
Regex match capture	Steven Fiedler 4 Jun 2021	Glenn Rice 4 Jun 2021	2
Subroutine return type in custom answer checker	Steven Fiedler 10 Jun 2021	Davide Cervone 10 Jun 2021	1
Display of student input with significant figures	Steven Fiedler 14 Jun 2021	Steven Fiedler 20 Jan 2023	5
Disabling red/green indicator bars	Steven Fiedler 1 Nov 2021	Davide Cervone 11 Nov 2021	4
Linked problems	Steven Fiedler 13 Jan 2022	Steven Fiedler 13 Jan 2022	0
Preview issue when combining radio buttons with multianswer	Steven Fiedler 30 Aug 2023	Steven Fiedler 31 Aug 2023	2
Limited Numeric Context and Custom Answer Checkers	Steven Fiedler 15 Oct 2023	Steven Fiedler 17 Oct 2023	5
Thomas' Calculus problems	Stuart Boersma 22 Aug 2011	Jason Aubrey 23 Aug 2011	1
OOM kills the mysqld process	Sukhjit Singh Sehra 24 Nov 2023	Andras Balogh 9 Dec 2023	4
Apache2 won't start after upgrade	Sungwook Lee 19 Sep 2017	Arnold Pizer 20 Sep 2017	7
mod_perl issue after Ubuntu software update	Sungwook Lee 22 Nov 2019	Sungwook Lee 23 Nov 2019	11
Graphics won't load	Tamara Lakins 16 Mar 2021	Sean Fitzpatrick 17 Jun 2023	3
Where are things like random(a,b,c) defined?	Ted Cox 6 Oct 2009	Michael Gage 14 Oct 2009	6
Declaring a variable to be positive	Ted Shifrin 29 Jan 2012	Paul Pearson 29 Jan 2012	1
Checking for a POSITIVE multiple of a given vector	Ted Shifrin 12 Jun 2012	Ted Shifrin 12 Jun 2012	4
compoundProblem in 2.4.9	Ted Shifrin 23 May 2011	Ted Shifrin 23 May 2011	0
Error with multiple use of custom answer checker	Ted Shifrin 13 Jun 2012	Paul Pearson 14 Jun 2012	4
compoundProblem.pl	Ted Shifrin 3 Oct 2013	Ted Shifrin 10 Oct 2013	2
If / else loops and wanting to skip numbers	Teresa Adams 6 Jun 2018	Danny Glin 6 Jun 2018	5
Filling a table with Numeric and Point	Teresa Adams 5 Jun 2018	Teresa Adams 6 Jun 2018	1
Student answers and order of their answers	Teresa Adams 27 Jun 2018	Davide Cervone 5 Jul 2018	2
popup menus and math type	Teresa Adams 11 Jul 2018	Sean Fitzpatrick 1 Aug 2018	3
Using a knowl with a url	Teri Christiansen 16 Jun 2015	Michael Gage 20 Jun 2015	1
BEGIN_TITLE Problem with Union Problem Library	Thomas Hagedorn 30 May 2007	Davide Cervone 30 May 2007	2
Using Format option in MultiAnswer	Thomas Hagedorn 15 Apr 2010	Davide Cervone 17 Apr 2010	2
Ans_rule with matrix	Thomas Wong 16 Aug 2018	Ryan Maccombs 16 Aug 2018	1
ans_array not recording in proctored quiz	Thomas Wong 3 Feb 2019	Glenn Rice 19 Jul 2020	5
Rendering inverse (hyperbolic) trig functions	Thomas Wong 21 Feb 2019	Thomas Wong 26 Feb 2019	2
Finding the code for previous workshop problems	Tim Alderson 19 Feb 2015	John Travis 16 Mar 2015	2
Reducing square roots using if, ifelse nested within a do loop	tim Payer 29 Aug 2015	Davide Cervone 31 Aug 2015	5
graph images are not displaying	tim Payer 1 Sep 2015	Arnold Pizer 1 Sep 2015	2
Intermittent error: "Can't convert infinity to a real number"	tim Payer 10 Sep 2015	Danny Glin 10 Sep 2015	1
Error traced to gcd( ) using more than 2 arguments?	tim Payer 27 Sep 2015	Alex Jordan 27 Sep 2015	2
Default sorting on the HW set Editor	tim Payer 2 Nov 2015	tim Payer 2 Nov 2015	0
What is the ETA on Webwork, Version 12?	tim Payer 16 Apr 2016	Michael Gage 16 Apr 2016	1
Declaring PopUp variables within if-else conditionals	tim Payer 21 Apr 2016	tim Payer 22 Apr 2016	2
Weighted Grader errors?	tim Payer 22 Apr 2016	tim Payer 29 Apr 2016	8
Using unicode characters in PopUp( ) answers version 10 webwork.	tim Payer 25 Apr 2016	Davide Cervone 30 Apr 2016	6
Unicode usage in PopUp menus: Can it be done?	tim Payer 30 Apr 2016	Davide Cervone 30 Apr 2016	1
Is it possible to pair text and numeric values in hash arrays?	tim Payer 1 May 2016	Davide Cervone 2 May 2016	2
Error created upon applying a weighted grader format?	tim Payer 2 May 2016	tim Payer 3 May 2016	2
Table justification, and table cell justification.	tim Payer 18 May 2016	tim Payer 18 May 2016	0
Slowed access to webwork site	tim Payer 23 Aug 2016	Arnold Pizer 24 Aug 2016	2
Sorting an array in PGML?	tim Payer 27 Aug 2016	Danny Glin 29 Aug 2016	1
\tilde x is rendering as \bar x in PGML	tim Payer 28 Aug 2016	Alex Jordan 29 Aug 2016	2
Popups not working within column displays?	tim Payer 15 Oct 2016	tim Payer 24 Oct 2016	2
Syntax for Data table usage in column displays?	tim Payer 25 Oct 2016	Alex Jordan 23 Nov 2016	4
Context for Using Popups within a data table under a weighted grader.	tim Payer 16 Nov 2016	tim Payer 3 Dec 2016	2
Using popups with NAMED_WEIGHTED_ANS	tim Payer 28 Nov 2016	tim Payer 3 Dec 2016	2
Answer blank syntax for weighted grader within a table	tim Payer 5 Dec 2016	tim Payer 5 Dec 2016	2
Using numeric values in popups with answerHints and a NAMED_WEIGHTED_ANS	tim Payer 10 Dec 2016	tim Payer 11 Dec 2016	1
Error statements generated for 3 of 9 random listed values through a popup error.	tim Payer 11 Dec 2016	tim Payer 12 Dec 2016	6