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Scrambled Order for PopUps	Brittni Lorton 14 May 2020	Brittni Lorton 15 May 2020	2
Scrambling the problem order with unionInclude.pl	Robin Cruz 15 Oct 2007	Robin Cruz 25 Oct 2007	6
Search engine on webwork.maa.org	Bentley Garrett 28 Aug 2018	Michael Gage 28 Aug 2018	1
searching for problems in the NPL	Arnold Pizer 1 Jul 2008	Arnold Pizer 1 Jul 2008	3
Selecting a random set of questions from a list	Steven McKay 18 Aug 2009	Steven McKay 19 Aug 2009	2
Selecting multiple sets to export in scoring tool	Joe Dutro 16 Mar 2015	Joe Dutro 16 Mar 2015	2
self-defined CIS function issue	Carl Yao 4 Mar 2021	Carl Yao 5 Mar 2021	2
Send mail via "Email Instructor" button fails	Frank Cavadi 2 May 2017	Arnold Pizer 29 Sep 2017	6
Sending students from Moodle to Webwork (assignment mode)	Kelsey Caron 4 Aug 2022	Kelsey Caron 8 Aug 2022	3
Session/cookie issue: users are getting logged in as other users!	Tony Box 3 Sep 2015	Björn Bergstrand 18 Sep 2015	10
Set Notation with Variables	Brittni Lorton 3 Jan 2020	Brittni Lorton 6 Jan 2020	2
Sets of Numbers	Olivia Henders 28 Jun 2017	Michael Gage 10 May 2018	9
Sets of Real Numbers (Naturals, Whole #s, Integers, etc.)	Paul Seeburger 28 Aug 2014	Paul Seeburger 29 Aug 2014	3
Setting new symbol in Currency context	Tim Flowers 22 May 2023	Alex Jordan 22 May 2023	1
setting the number of attempts on a problem	Jay Yellen 9 Aug 2012	Jay Yellen 10 Aug 2012	2
Setting tolerance in a FormulaWithUnits	Jack Dockery 9 Oct 2020	Danny Glin 13 Oct 2020	1
Setting type of math object	John Jones 13 Nov 2017	John Jones 14 Nov 2017	2
Setting up a chemistry problem	Eric Stroyan 7 Oct 2009	Eric Stroyan 11 Oct 2009	9
Setup Moodle Webwork	Philippe Ben 25 Nov 2012	Philippe Ben 26 Nov 2012	6
Show me another button not appearing?	tim Payer 18 Aug 2016	Alex Jordan 18 Aug 2016	1
Show Me Another Randomization Requirement	Nicole Wilson 8 May 2018	Nicole Wilson 9 May 2018	2
Showing correct answers as expressions in PG	Yuncong Chen 26 Oct 2012	Davide Cervone 2 Nov 2012	3
Showing Fractions instead of Decimals	Daniele Arcara 23 May 2016	Alex Jordan 8 Aug 2016	3
showing students which coordinate is wrong in a vector answer	Darwyn Cook 1 May 2008	Darwyn Cook 2 May 2008	5
sigfig tolType	Alex Jordan 23 Nov 2019	Alex Jordan 23 Nov 2019	1
significant digits	Carl Yao 3 Aug 2018	Alex Jordan 3 Aug 2018	5
Significant digits in answers	D. Brian Walton 15 Jun 2012	Edward Sternin 4 Dec 2017	5
Simplified radical in complex context	Brittni Lorton 29 Jan 2021	Brittni Lorton 2 Feb 2021	2
Simplified Radicals with MathQuill	Brittni Lorton 1 Dec 2020	Brittni Lorton 8 Dec 2020	2
SimplifyExponents function	roo biki 27 May 2023	roo biki 31 May 2023	4
Simplifying Derivatives	Danny Glin 18 Jun 2009	Paul Pearson 24 Jun 2010	3
Simplifying derivatives and suppressing ln(e) in formulas	Geoff Cox 1 Apr 2018	Geoff Cox 3 Apr 2018	2
simplifying radical expressions	Bruce Yoshiwara 27 Mar 2010	Davide Cervone 11 May 2010	19
simplifying square roots	Valerio De Angelis 22 Dec 2015	Valerio De Angelis 4 Jan 2016	8
single AnswerHint after checking a list	Dick Lane 11 Nov 2013	Dick Lane 11 Nov 2013	0
Slow load times with PGgraphmacros.pl	Danny Glin 7 Oct 2008	Davide Cervone 7 Oct 2008	1
Slowed access to webwork site	tim Payer 23 Aug 2016	Arnold Pizer 24 Aug 2016	2
small number woes	Zak Zarychta 21 Oct 2016	Davide Cervone 23 Oct 2016	3
Solution with multiple cases	Siman Wong 16 Dec 2012	Djun Kim 16 Dec 2012	2
Solve LR	Olivia Henders 10 Aug 2017	Davide Cervone 10 Aug 2017	4
solving complexe equations	Jean-Philippe JP 10 Jun 2008	Michael Gage 10 Jun 2008	1
Some students can't view pdfs	Bentley Garrett 19 Sep 2013	Bentley Garrett 19 Sep 2013	0
Some WeBWorK (Perl) code for Matrix Math Objects	Christopher Heckman 26 Dec 2013	Christopher Heckman 21 Jan 2014	2
Sorting an array in PGML?	tim Payer 27 Aug 2016	Danny Glin 29 Aug 2016	1
Space between multiple choice answers	Timothy Lucas 16 Dec 2021	Glenn Rice 4 Jan 2022	12
Spacing problems for trig functions	Sean Fitzpatrick 21 Jun 2023	Alex Jordan 22 Jun 2023	3
Specifying occurrences of character in answer	Bruce Yoshiwara 4 Feb 2018	Alex Jordan 7 Feb 2018	9
Spontaneous answer reduction	Olivia Henders 2 Aug 2017	Olivia Henders 4 Aug 2017	2
Sprint rounding convention fails	tim Payer 14 Feb 2017	Alex Jordan 14 Feb 2017	3
SQL error saving answer	Sean Fitzpatrick 1 Oct 2019	Sean Fitzpatrick 8 Oct 2019	27
Squaring negative numbers using "Compute"	Hedley Pinsent 1 Jun 2012	Hedley Pinsent 3 Jun 2012	2
static images problems takes long time	Edwin Flórez 5 Apr 2017	Edwin Flórez 8 May 2017	2
stats and least squares linear regression	Zak Zarychta 12 Feb 2021	Danny Glin 12 Feb 2021	1
Status on essay questions and instructor feedback	Jim Fischer 19 Sep 2013	Michael Gage 19 Sep 2013	1
Step Functions Should Not Be Legacious	Fred Sullivan 28 Oct 2009	Paul Pearson 6 Dec 2010	2
Storing persistent information accessible through Javascript	Jason Siefken 16 May 2019	Jason Siefken 23 Jun 2019	4
Strang's Linear Algebra	Hsiang-Ping Huang 13 Jan 2010	Hsiang-Ping Huang 22 Jan 2010	2
strange issue when a random numerator is 0	roo biki 4 Jun 2023	roo biki 5 Jun 2023	3
Strings and Formulas -- mixing contexts?	D. Brian Walton 19 Aug 2010	Davide Cervone 19 Aug 2010	1
Student answers and order of their answers	Teresa Adams 27 Jun 2018	Davide Cervone 5 Jul 2018	2
Student Answers Vanishing	Chris Pinto 14 Sep 2017	Eric Stroyan 22 Dec 2017	2
student answers vanishing with Odd number of elements in hash assignment warning	Andy Fuchs 17 Feb 2018	Michael Gage 22 Mar 2018	4
Student defined variables	Zak Zarychta 15 Feb 2019	Davide Cervone 16 Feb 2019	2
Student entering nth roots (dev math)	Bruce Yoshiwara 26 Jan 2018	Bruce Yoshiwara 28 Jan 2018	4
student survey?	Zak Zarychta 30 Sep 2016	Zak Zarychta 30 Sep 2016	0
Students report question changed after hitting submit	Charysse Redwood 23 Oct 2014	Alex Jordan 23 Oct 2014	1
submitting to OPL/Contrib	Joel Trussell 26 Aug 2016	Joel Trussell 29 Aug 2016	2
Subroutine return type in custom answer checker	Steven Fiedler 10 Jun 2021	Davide Cervone 10 Jun 2021	1
Subsequent Question Content Affected by Previous Answer	Kyle Schlitt 5 Feb 2024	Kyle Schlitt 5 Feb 2024	2
subtle (?) precision problem	Murray Eisenberg 4 Feb 2010	Darwyn Cook 7 Feb 2010	3
Summation notation answer checker	Paul Pearson 18 Jan 2020	Paul Pearson 18 Jan 2020	0
suppress partial credit score (until done)	Dick Lane 11 Nov 2010	Paul Pearson 16 Nov 2010	4
Symbolic answers in inequality questions	Ian Delbridge 19 Jun 2014	Davide Cervone 20 Jun 2014	7
Symbolic pi and function evaluations	Ryan Hass 17 May 2016	Paul Pearson 18 May 2016	5
Syntax error for weighted AnswerHints?	tim Payer 4 Mar 2017	tim Payer 4 Mar 2017	0
Syntax for an array value within a weighted answer	tim Payer 28 Jan 2017	tim Payer 29 Jan 2017	1
Syntax for Data table usage in column displays?	tim Payer 25 Oct 2016	Alex Jordan 23 Nov 2016	4
Syntax: Parentheses and Exponents	Christopher Heckman 20 Nov 2014	Christopher Heckman 21 Nov 2014	4
T tests with non-integer degrees of freedom	Gabriela Sanchis 24 Apr 2023	Danny Glin 24 Apr 2023	1
Table justification, and table cell justification.	tim Payer 18 May 2016	tim Payer 18 May 2016	0
Tailored feedback for string comparison	Danny Glin 6 May 2011	Danny Glin 9 May 2011	2
Technical problem with WeBWorK	Vijay Kumar Chenchugari 11 Oct 2022	Paul Vojta 12 Oct 2022	4
Test	Allyssa Williams 16 Nov 2020	Sean Fitzpatrick 16 Nov 2020	1
Testing for simplified form (division by zero)	D. Brian Walton 2 Jun 2010	D. Brian Walton 2 Jun 2010	2
tex in hints?	Kenneth Appel 24 Feb 2009	Michael Gage 24 Feb 2009	1
TeX in popup	Bruce Yoshiwara 3 Jan 2009	Davide Cervone 4 Jan 2009	1
Tex Issues in some problems	Blake Thornton 23 Jan 2007	Michael Gage 24 Jan 2007	3
TeX Rendering Issue	Zak Zarychta 1 Nov 2019	Paul Vojta 11 Nov 2019	1
TeX rendering strangely in College of Idaho Algebra Problem	Paul Seeburger 16 Oct 2020	Sean Fitzpatrick 18 Oct 2020	11
Tex to PDF Hardcopy generatort error	Frank Cavadi 27 Apr 2017	Balagopal Pillai 2 May 2017	19
TF context	Kenneth Appel 7 Aug 2008	Paul Pearson 24 Oct 2009	14
The 'less than' symbol disappears from answers if entered all by itself	Alexander Basyrov 9 Sep 2013	Paul Pearson 14 Sep 2013	2
The Correct answer displayed changes after user input	Bruce Yoshiwara 18 Feb 2018	Danny Glin 20 Feb 2018	3
The library browser says 122 matching problems... but only 43 are shown.	Daniel An 18 Feb 2016	Daniel An 18 Feb 2016	2
There is a subtle bug in Library/TCNJ/TCNJ_Eigenvalues/problem10.pg	Elbridge Gerry Puckett 19 Mar 2012	Gavin LaRose 21 Mar 2012	1
Thomas' Calculus problems	Stuart Boersma 22 Aug 2011	Jason Aubrey 23 Aug 2011	1
time to the microsecond	Alex Jordan 13 Jun 2019	Michael Gage 5 Jul 2019	7
Tolerance problems - exp(...) works fine, but e^(...) is "wrong"	Philip Loewen 22 Mar 2024	Philip Loewen 22 Mar 2024	2
Tolerance setting for answers is unreliable	tim Payer 26 Jan 2017	Alex Jordan 26 Jan 2017	2
Too many answer blanks	Eric Stroyan 23 Jun 2017	Eric Stroyan 26 Jun 2017	2