Math 12
Calculus Plus
WeBWorK homework and information
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WeBWorK is a system that allows students to do their homework
in an interactive web-based environment.
Using WeBWorK, students may try to answer homework
problems more than once. After each try, a message appears telling the student
whether the answer is correct or not. This provides immediate feedback to the
students, allows them to discover what they did wrong, and hopefully alows them to understand the topic of the question better.
Each WeBWorK problem set is individualized.
Each student has a different version of a problem generated from a fixed
template; for example the numerical values in the formulas may be slightly
different).
Anyone with an internet connection can try
out WeBWorK by following the directions in Part III
below. Use practice1 as the login name and practice1
again as the password. To see different problems, you can
login as practice2, practice3, or practice4 and use the login name for the
password.
Using WeBWorK
is quite simple.
Below are the basic steps on how to get started.
NOTE: Most pages of WeBWorK
also contain directions. Therefore, if you are ever unsure of what you should
do, try reading the directions and descriptions on the page at which you are
looking.
1. You can use any computer with a browser
like Netscape or MSIE. In general, it is not possible to use a text-based
browser like lynx since most of the mathematics is rendered using a graphic
format.
1.Open Netscape and go to the main WeBWorK page, address
http://webwork.dartmouth.edu/webwork2/m12f09/.
3. This will get you to the main page of your
course. This page includes necessary information about logging in.
To log in, click on the 'Login' button.
4. This will take you to a login page. Enter
your login name and password, and click on the 'Continue' button.
Your login name is the usually just your last name, followed
possibly by a digit for people in the class with the same last name (e.g.
smith, smith2, ...)). Possible exceptions include compound last name like
"den Hartog" or "De La Huerta"
which would be rendered Hartog and Huerta
respectively.
Your initial password is (unless you gave me something else)
your six-character student ID ``number''.
5. If your login is incorrect, you will be
told so, and you can return to the login page and try again.
6. If you are registered for the course, you
should receive and email from your instructor confirming your login and
password.
If your login is correct you will see a page where you can do following:
o
Look at and do the problems in a set via Netscape.
To do the first days assignment, for example, click on the line in the box that
starts with 'f03day1'. Then click on the 'Do problem set' button.
On each line in the box, where all the sets are listed, after the set number,
you can see whether the set is open or closed. If the set is open, that means
that when you solve a problem, it will be counted towards your grade. If the
set is closed, you can still solve problems, but your results will not be
recorded.
After the indication of whether the set is open or closed, there is additional
information about the due date (if the set is open), or whether the answers are
available (if the set is closed).
o
Get a printout of the problem set.
To print out f03day1, for example, first choose the download type. THe default of pdf is probably
what you want, although you may have to configure your browser to use Adobe's
Acrobat Reader to view (and print) the files.
After choosing one of the download types, click on the line in the box that
starts with 'f03day1...'. Then click on the 'Get hard copy' button. A couple of
things may happen at this point. If your browser is set up to handle pdf documents, your browser window will fill with the
homework set in it as a document. In this case, go to the icon 'file' and
choose the 'print' option. If your browser is not properly configured, you may
get an alert message asking what to with the file. In this case, you can save
the file to disk (so that you can print it at a later time), choose an
application to view or print the file (e.g. GSview or
dropPS for postscript or Acrobat Reader for pdf). Any of the computer consultants show be able to help
you with this kind of problem.
o
Look at a summary of your WeBWorK
homework scores.
This is the second section of the page. If you click on the button 'Get
Summary', you will see your current scores for all available problem sets.
7. If you are printing out a problem set or
looking at a summary of your homework scores, you are done. If you are viewing
a problem set via Netscape, you will see a page with the problems in the set
you chose. To view and/or answer a problem, click on the number of the problem
and click on the 'Get Problem' button. Notice that there are four modes of
viewing the problem: 'text', 'formatted-text' and 'typeset', adn typeset2. It is best to view the problem using
'typeset2' mode, which should be the default. Once you choose a problem and
click on the 'Get Problem' button, you will see the text of the problem with
boxes for your answers. Enter your answers and click on the 'Submit Answer'
button. If you are working on a problem set that is already closed, you will
have the option to see the correct answer or a solution if one is available
(currently only a few problems have solutions available). To see the correct
answer and/or solution, just check the box(es) and
click on the 'Submit Answer' button (you do not have to enter an answer to see
the correct answer or solution). Once you have submitted an answer, you will be
told whether your answer is correct or not. If not, you can try again. After
you've tried a problem, you can either go to the next problem, the previous
problem, or see the list of the problems again.
8. If you want to check the status of your
problems (e.g. to double check that your answers have been recorded), use the
"Prob. List" button at the top of the page to see the problem list
page.
9. When you are finished, log out using the
"Logout" button at the bottom of the page.
10. That's all, folks!