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\n[https://hosted2.webwork.rochester.edu/webwork2/HKUST101](https://hosted2.webwork.rochester.edu/webwork2/HKUST101)  \nTopics over view  \n• Walk through  \n•  [https://hosted2.webwork.rochester.edu/webwork2/HKUST10x](https://hosted2.webwork.rochester.edu/webwork2/HKUST10x)  \n• login: profa password: profa  \n• New question types  \n• Authoring questions  \n• Using the PGproblemEditor  \n• Finding information on the wiki  \n• MathObjects, contexts and more  \nWalk through  \n• Standard examples (Demo)  \n• MathAchievements-show types & editor  \nMathView entry  \nCourse configuration  \nLibrary  \n• Print hardcopy (use Demo set)  \nNew Question types   \n[https://hosted2.webwork.rochester.edu/webwork2/HKUST10x](https://hosted2.webwork.rochester.edu/webwork2/HKUST10x)[ ](https://hosted2.webwork.rochester.edu/webwork2/HKUST10x)• Standard questions: Demo set and MAA2011tutorial are good examples  \n• 5, 8, 10, 11, 12  \n• Geogebra examples: Demo/13 and GraphicalLOP  \n• Flash applet 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[maa.org/wiki/Problem_Techniques](maa.org/wiki/Problem_Techniques)  \n•    \nSubject area templates: [http://webwork. maa.org/wiki/Category:Subject_Area_Templates](http://webwork. maa.org/wiki/Category:Subject_Area_Templates)  \n•  POD documentation:  \nModel Courses   \n• John Travis has led the effort to create these collections of suitable homework sets for a given course .  \n• Obtaining information about modelCourses  \n• wiki pages: [http://webwork. maa.org/wiki/Model_Courses](http://webwork. maa.org/wiki/Model_Courses)  \n• Many of the courses are still “under construction”  \nGateway quizzes  \n[https://math.webwork.rochester.edu/webwork2/](https://math.webwork.rochester.edu/webwork2/)[ ](https://math.webwork.rochester.edu/webwork2/)[fall10mth164b/quiz_mode/ww02quiz/](fall10mth164b/quiz_mode/ww02quiz/)  \nMoodle  \n•  [https://math.webwork.rochester.edu/moodle](https://math.webwork.rochester.edu/moodle)  \n• Show spring14mth164: set2 problem 20  \n• Show statistics and student progress for sets 5 and 12  \n•  [https://hosted2.webwork.rochester.edu/moodle/](https://hosted2.webwork.rochester.edu/moodle/)  \nGrade essay questions  \n•  [https://hosted2.webwork.rochester.edu/webwork2/](https://hosted2.webwork.rochester.edu/webwork2/)[ ](https://hosted2.webwork.rochester.edu/webwork2/)dev13MTH208/WBWK1/  \nWeBWorK3  \n•  [https://devel2.webwork.rochester.edu/](https://devel2.webwork.rochester.edu/)[ ](https://devel2.webwork.rochester.edu/)webwork2/2014_HKUST_demo/  \n• The most noticeable change in WeBWorK3 is the instructor user interface . 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