UW Instructional Computing Services

WebWork

Last Update:  3 November, 2005; RKHill

Good representation of mathematical formulae and expressions on web pages is a chronic problem for education and research. Interactive work that is assessed algorithmically is even more difficult.  The University of Rochester has provided an interactive problem-set platform called WebWork for academic use, and UW has a handful of courses running on their server.

For general information, go to the WebWork homepage at:
     http://webwork.rochester.edu
   "Visitor" to see the facility in action (login as "Guest").
   "Intro to WebWork" for a list of features
   "Tutorial on Running a Course" for a guide to the professor's tasks
   "Write/Modify Problems" for references on:
     PG, the problem development language, based on Perl
     LaTeX, the basis for the notation used in questions and answers
 

Here is a page of documentation that describes a significant strength of
WebWork, answer evaluation:
   http://math.webwork.rochester.edu/docs/docs/pglanguage/answerevaluators.html
 

Libraries of predefined problems are available-- mostly math, but also
some other sciences-- to be used in your courses as is, or edited to suit
your needs.
 

For the courses hosted at Rochester for different institutions, go to:
   http://hosted.webwork.rochester.edu/webwork2
The course UWYO_PHIL2420 will allow a guest login, but there's not much
there.  Better to peruse Problem Set 0 in the demo courses.  For a course
of your own, contact Robin Hill at 766-5499 or hill@uwyo.edu.