Dear Colleagues,
We continue our COLLOQUIUM.

Terry Walters and Stephen Kuhn

Department of Mathematics,
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Thursday, September 19, Metro 205, 2:00 p.m.

An Open Web-Based Homework System

Abstract. We will discuss and give a hands-on demonstration of WHS, the
web-based homework system developed at the University of Kentucky (UK). This
system, developed with funding support from NSF, is in use at UK, UTC, and
other institutions. It allows instructors to set up their own classes and
use homework sets or individual problems developed by other instructors or
they may post their own problem sets. WHS shares much functionality with
other web-based homework systems, including random selection of problems,
immediate grading of the homework and feedback to students and faculty, and
opportunities for email between student and instructor with clear problem
references. However, unlike these other systems WHS homework sets can be
written in many programs, including Word, Maple, and Mathematica with a
small set of easily learned tags. We create all of our problem sets in Maple
for easy inclusion of 2- and 3-dimensional graphs.