To add students to the database, go the the Professor's page, scroll down to topic 7, and click Enter Add Student(s) Page. Enter information in the table for the students you want to add. Select "none" in the list of sets, then click Add Students. If you select any sets in the list, the open, due, and answer dates will be the same for all sets, and you'll have to fix them for each student. So don't select any sets.
Next, return to the Professor's page, scroll to topic 4, and click Enter Build Problem Set Page. In the first section, Build Problem Sets for [coursename], select the problem sets you want the new students to see in their list when they log on to WebWorK. If you want a verbose listing of actions taken, click the second or third radio button. Click Build Problem Set(s).
newpassword.pl coursename userlogin secretwordwhere secretword is the new password for the student with login name userlogin.
To change dates for individual students, such as those added after the course begins, choose topic 9 from the Professor's page and make the changes.
Many frustrations on the part of students who believe they have the correct answer when WebWorK is grading it wrong may be due to errors in syntax, insufficient use of parentheses, or other instances when an expression is interpreted by WebWorK differently from the way it was meant by the student. Students should be encouraged to study the rules at How to Enter Answers and to use the Preview Answers button before submitting their answers.
When a student who is dropped from the course tries to log in, he receives a Login invalid message. However, if he is logged on at the time he is dropped, he can continue to work problems and have his answers recorded. The problems themselves will display compiler warnings (pink screens).
| Open a saved message from the drop down box, if desired. |
| If you want to use information from a saved file, select that file from the list. This is useful when you want to email students their scores. |
| Edit the saved message, or compose a new message. You may create
fields in the body of the message to be filled in for each recipient;
the list of field is given in the Message drop down list.
For example, the body of the message might consist of the following: Hello $FN $LN. Here is some information about you:A recipient of the email would receive something like this: Hello George W. Bushg. Here is some information about you: |
| Next, fill in your name, the reply-to email address, and subject. |
| If you want to save this email to use again, scroll to the bottom, enter a new name of the form [newname].msg in the box, and click Save as. |
| Finally, select the recipients of the email. The default selection
is to send to all current students in the class, those with status
anything other than D, DROP, or WITHDRAW. You may also choose specific
students from the list. The list includes all logins in the database,
with any status, including instructors and practice users. Do
not select a classlist (the third option). The classlists
available are likely to be obsolete if you or students have made any
changes since the initial upload.
If you are sending to a subset of the class, often to a section, you may reorder the list to sort by section. The section or recitation name shows only when the list is ordered accordingly. |
The reason for recommending this order is that the recipient list is not saved with a saved message, while the other fields are. So, if you select recipients, then scroll down to open a saved message, the recipients revert to the default, all current students.