Webassign+-+University+of+Texas

Presenter: Sharon Gould - Shippensburg Time: 9:30 - 10:15 Room: Auditorium Contact: Blogger: Jimbo Lamb - Annville-Cleona

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This is a pay site. However, Sharon will be showing a free version of another service similar to WebAssign. Subscription fee is based upon the number of students that will be using the service. The more that use it, the cheaper it is. This matches up with your book, giving students different homework assignments. This will allow them to work on homework together, as they will be seeing the same type of problem, yet each student will get different numbers within the problem set. This will lead to a better showing of understanding from each student, as they cannot just copy anymore. However, they could still pay another student to do their assignments, but "those kids will survive, because they have entrepreneurial skills."

This is a free site, through the University of Texas, that does the same function as Webassign. It does not align to a particular textbook. You will first need to get a EUID - (Educational Used ID) https://idmanager.its.utexas.edu/eid_self_help/?createEID&qwicap-page-id=92AA6B9F059D9498
 * University of Texas - Homework Service **

You can then set-up an account. They will ask you to send them a copy of your school ID and paystub to verify that you are currently an instructor and not a student.

Sharon next begins to show how to set up/update an assignment. You can control how many times a student can submit, she chooses 3. She only uses WebAssign for homework, but you can set it up as a quiz or test for use at one sitting at a given time. There is an option where students are allowed to save work before the end of their session so they can return to the assignment at a later date.

Setting up conditional points: Write a programming equation to set it up. The HELP menu does a good job of helping users determine how to create the equation for the conditional points. In the next update, it will become more user-friendly.

Next, we take a look at working with student scores. You can tell if a student receives No Score (NS) or even No Download (ND: Did not even acknowledge that there was an assignment). You can set up a time that assignments are due, such as at midnight, and you can tell when a student downloads and begins the assignment. Looking at the log, you can tell how well a student is doing at a problem. Did they make a mistake? How long did it take them to make a correction? Some students will take a day to resubmit the problem. You can even assign a percentage score to a student as well as grant an extension.

For students without internet access at home, students can print out at school, and she will accept the paper version, grade it, and pass it back. Students who do paper version tend not to do the work ahead of time, though.

You can write your own questions as well, if you like. Otherwise, you get a selection of problems based on your text(s).