Course Setup, step by step

1. Go to Course Administration and choose 'Add course':
   • Enter course ID (e.g, math131fall2004)
   • Enter course title (e.g., Math 131)
   • Enter the institution: 'Washington University'
   • Click the box 'Add WeBWorK administrators to new course' (otherwise there won't be any access to the course)
   • Copy Templates???? (what does this do?)
   • Choose the sql database option (admin = 'root')
   • SQL Server Host: (leave blank)
   • SQL Server Port: (leave blank)
   • SQL Database Name: (leave blank)
   • WeBWorK Host: localhost (should already be there)
   • Click on 'Add Course', hopefully everything works out fine.

2. Log into the course you just created.

3. Add the appropriate code to the apache config file (httpd.conf). Something of the form:

   Alias /webwork2_course_files/Course_Name /opt/webwork2/courses/Course_Name/html
   

   (Make sure the corresponding buggy code is commented out in webwork.apache-config) You will have to restart apache for this to take effect.

4. Add students to the course:
   • Prepare a Classlist (.lst file):
     • This file must be in the form described on the link below, but most of this should be handled by the automated perl scripts mentioned below. Classlist format

     • In SISAdmin, open up the classroll and save this to file (theCourse.txt is a good name for it). If this is for a mult-section course, open the whole course up with all sections. The script is smart enough to delete duplicates. Hopefully the formatting of this file has not changed since the time the script was written. Now, run the command:

       WeBWorK_roll.pl --convert theCourse.txt theCourse.lst

       The script WeBWorK_roll.pl has the option --add to add professors and such. This isn't really necessary though since they can added via the web.

   • Upload the class list file to WeBWorK (on the 'File Transfer' page)
     (Choose to rename the file so it isn't named something like 'F://file.lst')

   • Import the Class list file. Do this in the 'Class List Editor'

5. Add the instructors and TA's to the class
   • 'Add student(s)' ('Class List Editor'). Make up student id numbers.
   • Select 'view all students' ('Class List Editor')
   • Select the TA's and instructors and select 'Edit Selected users'
   • Edit the permissions of the instructors and TA's. Set to 10 for instructors. (Find out more what to set these to for TA's!!)

6. Make the template directory:
   • In the template directory of the newly created course, make a link to the local problem template directory:

     ln -s /opt/webwork2/templates/rochester /opt/webwork2/courses/Course_Name/templates/rochester
     

     ln -s /opt/webwork2/templates/washU /opt/webwork2/courses/Course_Name/templates/washU
     

7. Edit the course info files (this could be made easier in a later version)
   • copy the files into the template directory:

     cp /opt/webwork2/conf/snippets/setHeader.pg /opt/webwork2/courses/Course_Name/templates/
     

   • Give this file write permissions (chmod 664 setHeader.pg)
   • (Perhaps the rest must be done for each homework set individually??)
   • Go to "Hmwk sets editor" and edit the homework set.
   • In the pop up buttons way to the right of the screen (you may have to scroll) you will see choices for the "setHeader" used when viewing problems on screen and the "hardcopy header" used when printing hardcopy. Set both of them to "setHeader.pg"
   • Edit the login_info.txt file in the templates directory.
   • Edit the report_grades.msg in templates/email/ directory. The first line of this file should be "Message:" (and nothing else).

8. Copy the grade template file to:

   /opt/webwork2/courses/Course_Name/templates/email/report_grades.msg
   

   (Look at some old courses to see what a good file looks like here.)

9. Add the instructors and TA's to the email list in course.conf. Add the line:

   $mail{feedbackRecipients} = ['mail1@math.wustl.edu', 'mail2@math.wustl.edu', 'etc'];