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== Overview ==
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== Quick start creating courses ==
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|style="width: 33%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|A Gallery of Courses | A Gallery of Courses|Existing courses using WeBWorK Assignments|Collection.png}}
|style="width: 33%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|Model Courses | Model Courses|Creating your own course from modules|Hallmarks of mathematical modelling.svg.png}}
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* [[A day in the life of a WeBWorK instructor]]
* [[:File:Webwork_getting_started_2009_06.pdf|Getting Started]] A pdf (hardcopy) tutorial on managing a WeBWorK course


== Creating and managing Homework sets ==
== Most commonly viewed instructor pages ==
Tutorials:
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* Managing [[Homework Sets]]
|style="width: 33%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|Overview of Problem Libraries | Overview of Problem Libraries|List of Universities contributing problems. Now usually included in NPL.|Collection.png}}
* Managing [[Set Definition Files]]
|style="width: 33%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|National Problem Library | Open Problem Library|Intro discusses the library. Main text is for administrators|Question-page.png}}
* Managing [[Dates, Times, and Time Zones]]
|style="width: 33%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|Course Administration | Course Administration |details how to create and delete courses, import and export course databases,etc. |User-admin-48px.png}}
* Managing [[Gateway Tests and Quizzes]]
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** [[GatewayQuiz Technical Information and Philosophy]]
** [[Selecting Problems from Problem Groups]]
** [[GatewayQuiz Assignment Problems]]
** [[Assignment Access Restrictions]]


Other instructions
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|style="width: 33%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|Just-In-Time | Just-In-Time Assignments | Adaptive homework assignments (in development)|Gateway2.png}}
|style="width: 33%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|Gateway Tests and Quizzes | Gateway Tests and Quizzes|Setting up gateway tests|Gateway2.png}}
|style="width: 33%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|A day in the life of a WeBWorK instructor | A day in the life of a WeBWorK instructor|details on how one professor actually uses WeBWorK.|User-phd-48px.png}}
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* [[CAPA Physics Problems]] -- using questions translated from Rochester's CAPA physics collection
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* [[Reduced Scoring]]
|style="width: 33%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|Classlist Files | Classlist Files|Details about the use of classlists|Classlist.png}}
|style="width: 33%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|Course Management | Course Management|Links to pages and videos about the use of WeBWorK|Management.png}}
|style="width: 33%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|Homework Sets |Homework Sets|Setting up and modifying homework|Homework.png}}
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== Managing Course Rosters ==
== Creating and managing Homework sets ==
* [[Classlists | Management of Course Rosters]]
===Tutorials===
*[http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dp7p9h5_837c5zcddd7 Management of Course Rosters -- Google docs version]
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* [[Classlist Files]] format details
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|style="width: 25%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|Writing Your Own Homework Problems Using PGML | Intro To Writing Your Own Homework Problems Using PGML |A Gentle Introduction|Collection.png}}
|style="width: 25%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|Dates, Times, and Time Zones | Dates, Times, and Time Zones|Managing Dates, Times, and Time Zones|Hourglass2.png}}
|style="width: 25%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|Gateway Tests and Quizzes |Gateway Tests and Quizzes|Managing Gateway Tests and Quizzes|Gateway2.png}}
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====More details for gateway tests====
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|style="width: 25%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|GatewayQuiz Technical Information and Philosophy | GatewayQuiz Technical Information and Philosophy| |Bridge-gate-new.png}}
|style="width: 25%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|Selecting Problems from Problem Groups | Selecting Problems from Problem Groups| |Bridge-gate-new.png}}
|style="width: 25%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|GatewayQuiz Assignment Problems |GatewayQuiz Assignment Problems| |Bridge-gate.png}}
|style="width: 25%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|Assignment Access Restrictions |Assignment Access Restrictions| |Bridge-gate-no.png}}
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== Other tasks ==
===Optional Modules===
* [[Scoring]]
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* [[Sending Email]]
|style="width: 25%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|Achievements |Achievements | Setting up and using the Achievement system | Achievement_Locked.png}}
|style="width: 25%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|Achievement Evaluator |Achievement Evaluator | Modifying and creating achievements |  Achievement_Locked.png}}
|style="width: 25%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|Achievement Items |Achievement Items | Using achievement items | Achievement_Locked.png}}
|style="width: 25%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|Reduced Scoring | Reduced Scoring| |Reduced-scoring.png}}
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== Screen casts ==
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* [[Course Management]] (screencasts)
|style="width: 25%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|Conditional Release| Conditional Release | Forcing sets to only release after other sets are finished. | Scoring.png}}
* See also [[Video_conferences]]. Some of these are on course management topics.
|style="width: 25%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|Show Me Another | Show Me Another | Show students how to solve a different version of a problem. | Scoring.png}}
|style="width: 25%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|Periodic Randomization | Periodic Randomization | Reseed a problem after a certain number of attempts. | Scoring.png}}
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== HOWTOs ==
===Other instructions===
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|style="width: 25%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|Sending Email |Sending Email| |Gartoon-mail-48px.png}}
|style="width: 25%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|CAPA Physics Problems |CAPA Physics Problems|using questions translated from Rochester's CAPA physics collection |Physics2.png}}
|style="width: 25%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|Screen casts | Tutorial screen casts|For Course management, etc |Scoring.png}}
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|style="width: 25%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|HOWTOs | HOWTOs| Problems sets, libraries, statistics, reporting bugs, etc|Reduced-scoring.png}}
|style="width: 25%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|Technical |Technical|Permissions and Header files |Gartoon-mail-48px.png}}
|style="width: 25%; border-width: 0px;"|{{projectline|Essay Questions |Essay Questions | Using and grading essay questions | Scoring.png}}
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* [[An explanation of problem source files, problems, problem sets, and problem libraries]]
== Links ==
* [[What to do if you find a bug in a problem]]
* [[:File:Webwork_getting_started_2009_06.pdf|Getting Started]] A pdf (hardcopy) tutorial on managing a WeBWorK course
* [[How to change a student's problem seed]]
* [http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dp7p9h5_837c5zcddd7 Management of Course Rosters -- Google docs version]
* [[How to manage email sent via the email instructor button effectively]] (Use gmail!)
* [[Using "student progress" and "statistics" to prepare for class]]


== Technical ==
* [[Permissions]]
* [[Header Files and Snippets]]


[[Category:Instructors]]
[[Category:Instructors]]

Latest revision as of 22:21, 7 May 2022

Quick start creating courses

A Gallery of Courses
Existing courses using WeBWorK Assignments
Model Courses
Creating your own course from modules


Most commonly viewed instructor pages

Overview of Problem Libraries
List of Universities contributing problems. Now usually included in NPL.
Open Problem Library
Intro discusses the library. Main text is for administrators
Course Administration
details how to create and delete courses, import and export course databases,etc.
Just-In-Time Assignments
Adaptive homework assignments (in development)
Gateway Tests and Quizzes
Setting up gateway tests
A day in the life of a WeBWorK instructor
details on how one professor actually uses WeBWorK.
Classlist Files
Details about the use of classlists
Course Management
Links to pages and videos about the use of WeBWorK
Homework Sets
Setting up and modifying homework

Creating and managing Homework sets

Tutorials

Set Definition Files
Managing Set Definition Files
Intro To Writing Your Own Homework Problems Using PGML
A Gentle Introduction
Dates, Times, and Time Zones
Managing Dates, Times, and Time Zones
Gateway Tests and Quizzes
Managing Gateway Tests and Quizzes

More details for gateway tests

GatewayQuiz Technical Information and Philosophy
Selecting Problems from Problem Groups
GatewayQuiz Assignment Problems
Assignment Access Restrictions

Optional Modules

Achievements
Setting up and using the Achievement system
Achievement Evaluator
Modifying and creating achievements
Achievement Items
Using achievement items
Reduced Scoring
Conditional Release
Forcing sets to only release after other sets are finished.
Show Me Another
Show students how to solve a different version of a problem.
Periodic Randomization
Reseed a problem after a certain number of attempts.

Other instructions

Scoring
Sending Email
CAPA Physics Problems
using questions translated from Rochester's CAPA physics collection
Tutorial screen casts
For Course management, etc
HOWTOs
Problems sets, libraries, statistics, reporting bugs, etc
Technical
Permissions and Header files
Essay Questions
Using and grading essay questions

Links