How to use Webassign for your homework

In order to access and submit your homework for grading, you will use Webassign. Because this is the first time the Mathematics department is using Webassign, the company has agreed to provide a "class test." This means that there will be no student fee assessed. Other departments on campus have used Webassign for years and you may be familiar with it already.

Here is a description of how to get registered on Webassign and begin accessing the homework.

Open a web browser (Internet Explorer, Foxfire, Safari, etc.).
Login to your "MyUW" account.
Go to this web address: http://www.webassign.net .
On the right-hand side will be a box labeled "ACCOUNT LOG IN."
Enter washington as your institution.
Do NOT enter a username and do NOT enter a password on this page.
Click the "LOG IN" button.
A new screen appears with a new "LOG IN" button. Click on this button. This should take you into a page with access to your Math 124 assignments. (If you had not previously logged into your MyUW account, Webassign would have forced you to do so at this point.)
Under "My classes" drop down menu, select our class. You will then be able to access current assignments, grades etc.
The "Guide" and "Help" links in the upper right corner may help you find your way around 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 each question, 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.
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+ 3y² = 7 . However, when you look at your friend's homework, the same problem might instead involve the equation 3 x²+ 5y² = 7 . These slight randomized changes insure that no single answer key can be posted online for everyone to use.

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