How to use Webwork
AMS 161
February 6, 2013
Introduction to Webwork
Webwork is an online program that we will use for graded homework assignments. We have created accounts for you for this class. Your username is
your first initial followed by your last name, all lowercase. Your password is
your Solar ID - you may change this if you desire.
Note: Some of you have the same first initial and last names. If you can’t
log in try the first two letters of your first name followed by your last name.
For example, if my name was Jeffrey Chen, normally my user name would be
jchen, but if there was another student with that user name, mine would end
up being jechen. If you still can’t log on, please notify one of us immediately!
These usernames and passwords are also specific to AMS 161, and are not
shared among other AMS classes you may take that use Webwork.
Note: If you drop the course, please notify one of the instructors! You will not
be dropped from Webwork automatically and the instructors must manually
drop you from the program.
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Getting Started
To get started, on any web browser go to the url:
http://webwork2.ams.sunysb.edu/webwork2/AMS161/. Alternately, you
can go to http://webwork2.ams.sunysb.edu/webwork2/- and select the
AMS161 page (not AMS161-1) to get to the login screen. Once you log
in, you can see a list of available homework test sets. To begin a set, click
on the blue link corresponding to the name of the set you are working on.
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Using Webwork
You will see a list of appropriate problems. Simply click on the appropriate
problem to begin.
Some questions require a numerical or set of numerical answers. When you
give an answer, please give it to at least 4 significant digits - most of the
time, the answers will be accepted to an error of + or - 0.01%
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You may
√ also give your answers in2 terms of algebraic expressions, e. g. sqrt(5)
to get 5, pi to get π, 6ˆ2 for 6 , sin(3), 5!, log for natural log or log10 for
log base 10, etc. Preview answer is a powerful tool! It will let you see
whether your answer is what you want it to look like, as well as simplify your
expressions so you can understand what you wrote better. In general you
may attempt each of these free response questions 4 times, so make sure to
preview your answer beforehand!
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Other problems may be multiple choice, with one or more possible answers. These questions are self explanatory - simply click on the bubble or
box corresponding to the answer(s) you think are correct and press submit.
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Some questions may require you to write an algebraic expression or formula. These are similar to the free response questions earlier. Be sure to use
preview answer to make sure your formula is correct! Generally your answers
do not have to exactly match the intended answer’s form - for example, if a
question is expecting an answer of the form sin(x)cos(x) you may leave it as
sin(2x)/2 instead (remembering your trig identities can be useful after all!)
as 5 points at random are selected from both the solution and your function
to check whether they match.
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Further References
Additional information on how to best use Webwork may be found at: http:
//webwork.maa.org/wiki/Student_Information As usual, if things don’t
seem to work or the program is not accepting an answer that should be right
let any of the grad TAs know.
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