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Best practice and attribution for edited OPL problems in another project	Sean Fitzpatrick 21 Jun 2023	Sean Fitzpatrick 21 Jun 2023	2
BEGIN_TITLE Problem with Union Problem Library	Thomas Hagedorn 30 May 2007	Davide Cervone 30 May 2007	2
BEGIN_TEXT ... END_TEXT permission-dependent options?	Patti Lamm 28 Jan 2009	Michael Gage 2 Feb 2009	8
Basic Problem Authoring Documentation	Eric Bumbalough 9 Mar 2021	Eric Bumbalough 10 Mar 2021	4
Basic PGML question about answer order	Peter Garfield 3 Sep 2019	Peter Garfield 3 Sep 2019	4
available libraries for linear algebra	Mohsen Maesumi 16 Oct 2010	Danny Glin 18 Oct 2010	2
Availability of Test Questions in Image Format	mubashir khan 22 Sep 2023	mubashir khan 22 Sep 2023	0
Automatically randomizing problem when I press enter on an answer blank	Paul Seeburger 22 Sep 2014	Paul Seeburger 26 Sep 2014	3
Authoring with PGML, popup, and numbers with units	Justin Heckman 9 Dec 2019	Danny Glin 16 Dec 2019	2
Author newbie: answer to be variable - 1	Murray Eisenberg 2 Oct 2009	Davide Cervone 2 Oct 2009	2
Attach file with a student submission	James Morski 13 Jul 2018	Joseph Maher 16 Jun 2020	8
Asterisk appears in Compute( "$a x " )->reduce; HOW TO GET RID OF IT?	Aba Mbirika 9 Dec 2014	Alex Jordan 9 Dec 2014	3
Assigning Textbook Problems	Dikran Karagueuzian 2 Feb 2013	John Travis 14 Feb 2013	3
assigning grade weights inside pgml compare methods	Larry Riddle 21 Jul 2023	Glenn Rice 25 Jul 2023	2
AskSage -- working example?	Keir Lockridge 11 Jun 2020	Michael Gage 12 Jun 2020	8
Asking for 1 of infinitely many correct answers	Bruce Yoshiwara 18 Apr 2009	Dick Lane 26 Jun 2010	4
Article on Floating Point Calculations	Jason Aubrey 4 Nov 2009	Jason Aubrey 4 Nov 2009	0
arrays in PGML	Valerio De Angelis 25 Jun 2017	Valerio De Angelis 23 Jul 2017	11
arrays in perl/webwork	Helena Verrill 8 Feb 2007	Michael Gage 8 Feb 2007	1
array shuffle woes	Zak Zarychta 20 Feb 2019	Zak Zarychta 1 Mar 2019	1
arithmetic syntax in Compute	Murray Eisenberg 19 Nov 2009	Murray Eisenberg 19 Nov 2009	2
Are these the Trigonometry libraries available in the OPL? Also: question about embedding graphics	Miguel-Angel Manrique 7 Jan 2018	Miguel-Angel Manrique 11 Jan 2018	2
Arbitrary constants in $f->cmp	Richard Litherland 7 Oct 2009	Davide Cervone 7 Oct 2009	4
appropriate problem library for Stewart calculus	Dana Ernst 26 Jan 2010	Dana Ernst 30 Jan 2010	15
Apostrophes in student answers	Paul Pearson 3 May 2019	Davide Cervone 3 May 2019	2
Apache2 won't start after upgrade	Sungwook Lee 19 Sep 2017	Arnold Pizer 20 Sep 2017	7
Apache2 won't start	Arnold Pizer 20 Sep 2017	Arnold Pizer 20 Sep 2017	9
Any way to get MathQuill to allow multiple word phrases to be entered?	Paul Seeburger 25 Feb 2021	Glenn Rice 26 Feb 2021	3
Antiderivatives and "Can't solve for adaptive parameters"	Sherman Wong 19 Apr 2010	Sherman Wong 20 Apr 2010	4
Answers which are lists	Kenneth Appel 15 Dec 2008	tim Payer 22 Aug 2020	13
answers that are Sets and a custom checker issue	Alex Jordan 13 Nov 2011	Davide Cervone 8 Jul 2012	1
Answers that are equations or inequalities that involve symbols	Keir Lockridge 18 Jun 2020	Keir Lockridge 18 Jun 2020	0
Answers involving large integers.	Nathan Wodarz 16 Jul 2009	Davide Cervone 2 Sep 2009	1
Answers in terms of functions	D. Brian Walton 10 Sep 2009	Davide Cervone 11 Sep 2009	1
Answers (having ) are not printed correctly in the Correct Answers Column	Liping Chen 7 Oct 2013	Arnold Pizer 14 Oct 2013	3
answerhints for multiple choice questions	Greg Schlitt 7 May 2020	Davide Cervone 14 Jun 2020	1
AnswerHints and Domains	D. Brian Walton 13 Jul 2010	Davide Cervone 31 Jul 2010	3
Answer with units	Zak Zarychta 13 Oct 2017	Zak Zarychta 23 Oct 2017	3
Answer up to multiplication by a nonzero constant and added variables	David Protas 31 Dec 2012	David Protas 14 Jan 2013	2
Answer preview format string for MathObjects.	Jaimos Skriletz 7 Jan 2022	Davide Cervone 8 Jan 2022	1
Answer precision in PGML -- mend a broken heart!	Philip Loewen 19 Mar 2023	Philip Loewen 20 Mar 2023	2
Answer is a list of sets	Paul Pearson 16 Jun 2020	Davide Cervone 16 Jun 2020	1
Answer fields shown in dependance of the answer of another answer field	F. Heiderich 23 Sep 2017	F. Heiderich 25 Sep 2017	3
Answer Evaluators for Complex Numbers	Liz Brauer 9 Apr 2008	Gavin LaRose 11 Apr 2008	1
answer evaluators	Kenneth Appel 23 Mar 2010	Davide Cervone 28 Mar 2010	2
Answer error?: Library/Rochester/setVectorCalculus3/ur_vc_13_1.pg	Murray Eisenberg 12 Nov 2011	Murray Eisenberg 12 Nov 2011	2
Answer dependent on student response	Gregory Varner 18 Sep 2020	Glenn Rice 29 Sep 2020	15
Answer conditional on PopUp response	Eric Errthum 21 Mar 2018	Eric Errthum 22 Mar 2018	1
Answer checking not working in new problem	Hy Ginsberg 16 Sep 2014	Davide Cervone 16 Sep 2014	2
answer checking a list of one list	Gavin LaRose 13 Jan 2011	Davide Cervone 14 Jan 2011	2
Answer checker woes	Zak Zarychta 31 Oct 2023	Steven Fiedler 9 Nov 2023	5
Answer checker to check that multiple answers are different	Paul Seeburger 9 Dec 2014	Steve Dalton 25 Mar 2015	6
Answer checker issue	Tim Alderson 24 Jan 2024	Tim Alderson 25 Jan 2024	2
answer checker for finance math problems to accept and display 2 decimal digits	Aba Mbirika 16 Apr 2015	Hedley Pinsent 10 May 2015	3
Answer boxes in TeX mode	David Covert 9 Mar 2012	David Covert 9 Mar 2012	4
Answer boxes for limits of integration / fractions / etc	Ryan Maccombs 2 Aug 2018	Nathan Wallach 8 May 2020	2
Answer boxes for limits of integration - with support for MathQuill	Nathan Wallach 8 May 2020	Glenn Rice 24 Sep 2024	4
Answer blank syntax for weighted grader within a table	tim Payer 5 Dec 2016	tim Payer 5 Dec 2016	2
Answer (in the form of a function) is not graded correctly	Bentley Garrett 31 Oct 2013	Bentley Garrett 1 Nov 2013	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
ans_array and student response storage	Andrew Parker 29 May 2020	Glenn Rice 29 May 2020	1
ans_array	Alex Jordan 20 Nov 2019	Danny Glin 22 Nov 2019	5
another multianswer question, different types	Richard Lynch 19 Mar 2013	Richard Lynch 20 Mar 2013	2
Another Matrix Display Issue - Yes/No questions	Murphy Waggoner 15 Feb 2015	Davide Cervone 19 Feb 2015	8
ambiguous unit --- how/need to handle ?	Dick Lane 13 Feb 2014	Gavin LaRose 14 Feb 2014	1
Allowing P and C in student answers	Christopher Heckman 21 Dec 2016	Alex Jordan 22 Dec 2016	6
Allow only one submission per question	John Perry 18 Aug 2021	John Perry 20 Aug 2021	7
Allow Non Reduced Unions	Brittni Lorton 3 Oct 2022	Brittni Lorton 3 Oct 2022	1
Allow fraction, decimal or percent, but show fraction as correct answer	Jan Hlavacek 22 Oct 2017	Alex Jordan 22 Oct 2017	1
Allow commas in answers that are large numbers	Adam Weyhaupt 24 May 2010	Adam Weyhaupt 7 Jun 2010	4
Aliases for units	Alex Jordan 23 Dec 2010	Alex Jordan 23 Dec 2010	0
algebra question	Paul Pearson 5 Sep 2012	Davide Cervone 13 Sep 2012	2
Algebra problems: radicals, factorizing, simplifying	Rob Owen 14 Jun 2007	Alex Jordan 27 Dec 2010	23
Advanced WeBWorK problem authoring minicourse at JMM in Baltimore	Michael Gage 18 Jul 2018	Michael Gage 18 Jul 2018	0
Additional bug in Webwork Question Server?	Steven McKay 6 Sep 2008	Steven McKay 8 Sep 2008	4
Adding to the NPL	Darwyn Cook 23 Jun 2010	Jason Aubrey 13 Jul 2010	6
Adding Rogawski calculus probs to 2.7	Jim Fischer 1 Oct 2013	Jim Fischer 19 Dec 2013	7
Adding re-randomization	D. Brian Walton 5 Jul 2011	D. Brian Walton 26 Jul 2011	3
Adding Questions and button to Problem Library	Kelsey Caron 27 Jul 2022	Kelsey Caron 4 Aug 2022	4
adding problems to the OPL	Andrew Dabrowski 6 May 2019	Andrew Dabrowski 6 May 2019	0
adding functions to context	Gavin LaRose 1 Apr 2009	Gavin LaRose 2 Apr 2009	3
Adding Curly Braces to enclose a set of column vectors.	Elbridge Gerry Puckett 27 Apr 2010	Arnold Pizer 21 Jun 2010	2
Adding an html link within a Data Table	tim Payer 14 Jan 2020	tim Payer 14 Jan 2020	0
Adding an "alt table" to a graph or image	Monica VanDieren 27 Sep 2021	Monica VanDieren 27 Sep 2021	0
add solution to a .pg file while set is open	Dick Lane 21 Apr 2010	Gavin LaRose 22 Apr 2010	1
add function to Complex context	Alex Jordan 16 Jun 2020	Davide Cervone 25 Jun 2020	5
add complex numbers to a context	Alex Jordan 30 May 2019	Alex Jordan 30 May 2019	4
accessing raw student input for multiAnswer problems	roo biki 2 Aug 2023	roo biki 8 Aug 2023	4
accessing a dynamic images pixel width	Alex Jordan 4 Oct 2017	Gavin LaRose 4 Oct 2017	1
access to student responses between evaluations	Hedley Pinsent 3 Mar 2012	Hedley Pinsent 5 Mar 2012	2
Accepting reduced fraction OR decimal	Brittni Lorton 12 Oct 2020	Brittni Lorton 19 Oct 2020	3
Accepting all varialbes	Carl Yao 18 Feb 2016	Carl Yao 18 Feb 2016	0
Accept student answer as a string	Henri Feiner 11 Dec 2009	Henri Feiner 12 Dec 2009	2
Absolute Value in Logarithmic Functions Student Answers	Brittni Lorton 19 Feb 2019	Davide Cervone 24 Aug 2019	6
A weighty problem ?!	Zak Zarychta 8 Sep 2010	Davide Cervone 9 Sep 2010	2
a weak alternative to a polymorphic custom checker	Dick Lane 14 Jun 2011	Dick Lane 15 Jun 2011	2
A question about custom answer checkers	Steven McKay 22 Oct 2009	Arnold Pizer 23 Oct 2009	3
a problem with previewing answer	Dave Meng 14 Sep 2017	Dave Meng 14 Sep 2017	2
A failed attempt to use Gavin LaRose's Sample Problem 2	Kenneth Appel 13 Jan 2009	Davide Cervone 13 Jan 2009	1