Help for Problem Viewing and Answering Page
- Submit Answers: After entering your answers, clicking this button will submit your answers for verification. You will be told whether your answers are correct or incorrect. If your answers are correct you will see the statement that the problem "has been answered correctly" and your teacher will have a record of this. Even if you later do the problem again incorrectly, you will be told that you new answers are incorrect, but you will still see the statement that the problem "has been answered correctly." You only have to do a problem correctly once to recieve credit. However, if it is after the due date (or if there is a limit on the number of attempts and you have exceeded it), your answers will not be recorded. You can still do the problem and find out if your answers are correct or incorrect, but correct answers submitted after the due date will not be recorded.
- Preview Answers: Clicking this button will submit your answers for previewing. You can do this to check for syntax errors. Also, the previewer will display a typeset version of your answers so that you can tell exactly what what you are entering. E.g. 1+2/3+4 is different than (1+2)/(3+4) and the previewer will show you the difference. The problem will not be scored so you can use this to check for syntax errors without a wrong answer being recorded. Select help on the preview page for more information.
- Notes: Various informational notes are given, e.g. "Answer not recorded - it is after the due date." Other notes warn you that the due date is approaching, that there is a limit on the number of attempts for a particular problem and you are approaching that limit, that answers are available, etc.
- Show Answers: When this box is checked and you click the Submit Answers button, you will see the answers WeBWorK is expecting. For students, the Show Answers check box is only visable after the answer date. For professors, it's always visable. Note that you don't have to enter any of you own answers to see WeBWorK's answers, just check the box and click the Submit Answers button.
- Show Hint: When this box is checked and you click the Submit Answers button, you will see a hint for the problem. The Show Hint check box is only visible when a hint exists and is available for reading. For obscure technical reasons, in "Typeset Mode", whenever the Show Hint box is checked, WeBWorK will take a long time to display the problem and solution. If the hint has been displayed once in "Typeset Mode", it will always be displayed in "Typeset Mode" even if the Show Hint box is not checked. Under these circumstances, leaving the Show Hint box unchecked will result in a much faster display.
- Show Solution: When this box is checked and you click the Submit Answers button, you will see a solution for the problem. The Show Solution check box is only visible when (1) a solution exists and (2) the Show Answers check box is visible. For obscure technical reasons, in "Typeset Mode", whenever the Show Solution box is checked, WeBWorK will take a long time to display the problem and solution. If the solution has been displayed once in "Typeset Mode", it will always be displayed in "Typeset Mode" even if the Show Solution box is not checked. Under these circumstances, leaving the Show Solution box unchecked will result in a much faster display.
- Hints:
- On many problems WeBWorK will do simple arithmetic for you -- so for example you can enter 4*11 instead of 44. Remember that 1/2+3 is really (1/2)+3 not 1/(2+3). Use ( )'s (and also [ ]'s or { }'s) to make your meaning clear.
- On many problems WeBWorK will allow you to use elementary expressions such as 2^3 instead of 8, 2sin(3pi/2), ln(e^2), (2+tan(3))*(4-sin(5))^6-7/8, and sqrt(9) or 9^.5 or 9^(1/2).
- If a space or juxtaposition (e.g. 2 3, 2 x, 2x, 2sin(3)) looks like multipliction to WeBWorK, it will be interpreted as multiplcation but you can always enter 2*3 or 2*x or 2*sin(3) to make your meaning clear.
- WeBWorK will interpret sin x and sin pi (or even sinpi) as sin(x) and sin(pi) respectively but be careful since sin 2pi gets interpreted as sin(2)pi which is really (sin(2))*pi. I.e. functions (e.g. sin) are evaluated before any other operations. It's always safer to use parentheses when entering functions. Also sin^2(x) is wrong. You need to enter (sin(x))^2 or (sin x )^2 or sin(x)^2 . Actually sin x^2 will also work since sin is evaluated before the exponent is taken, but it's better to make the meaning clear.
- If part or all of the problem is not displayed (especially in "typeset" Display Mode), try selecting a different Display Mode, e.g. "formatted-text", and hit Submit Answers to view the problem in the new mode.
- For faster viewing, don't check the Show Hint or Show Solution boxes when in "typeset" Display Mode.
For more information on WeBWorK: Webwork docs.
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Last updated: 8 January 2000
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