How to use WebAssign for Math 324B, Spring 2012
Logging on to WebAssign.
- Go to the UW Login Page for Webassign,
https://www.webassign.net/washington/login.html
and click the "LOG IN" button.
- (If you ever find yourself at a page that asks you for a Username,
Institution, and Password, just type "Washington" for the Institution,
leave the other spots blank, and click on "LOG IN"; this should take you to
the UW Login Page.)
- After logging into your MyUW account (if you weren't already logged in),
you should end up at a page with a menu for "My classes". Pull it down
and select our class.
- You should then have access to current assignments, scores, etc.
- If you've just added the class, there may be a 1-2 day delay before the
class shows up on your WebAssign account.
Basics for using WebAssign.
- When you open up a homework assignment, you will see empty
boxes for your answers. Sometimes the answers are numerical
(e.g., 1.25 or 5/4), sometimes symbolic (e.g., 2x + x2 ).
A palette of mathematical symbols
is provided to allow you to enter symbolic notation.
- When you open a homework assignment, you have the option to
submit an answer OR save your work for later. You can
also print out the entire homework, work on it away from the computer,
then return and enter answers later.
- On most questions, you are allowed 5 tries to enter the correct answer.
After that, the correct answer pops up and you are given 0 on
that particular submission.
(The number of submissions for a multiple choice question is generally 2.
For a True/False or Yes/No questions, you get only one submission.)
- You will find that many of the problems
have "randomized" numbers in them. For example, on a particular problem
your homework may involve working with the equation
2 x2 + 3 y2 = 7.
However, when you look at your friend's homework, the same problem
might instead involve the equation
3 x2 + 5 y2 = 7.
These slight randomized changes insure that no single answer key
can be posted online for everyone to use.
- You can click on "Read It" to read the section of the text related
to the problem. "Watch It" shows you a demonstration of a similar problem.
"Chat About It" connects you to on-line tutors.
You have 2 hours (total) of free access to these tutors, after that you can
get more help for a fee.
Troubleshooting.
- If you have questions, try the "Guide" and "Help" links in the upper
right corner.
- On the "Help" pages, click the "Customer Support" link to get to an
email form for specific questions; and from the email form, click on
"Student Support" (upper right corner) to get to
Live Chat and Phone Support information.
- Closing and reopening your browser, then clearing the history ("cache" or
"cookies") before returning to WebAssign may solve some problems.
If you have suggestions for making this page more helpful to students,
please email them to me at
slivken@math.washington.edu.
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