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WeBWorK Problem Set Archives

WeBWorK Problem Set Archives

Instructions for downloading and importing problem sets to a WeBWorK course

To install a problem set archive:
  1. Click on the archive to download it to your computer. The filename should end in ".tgz".
  2. Go to the File Manager in your WeBWorK course. You do not have to change the folder you are in (the default is templates, which is what you want).
  3. Click on the "Browse..." button to find the archive you want to upload. Leave "Unpack archives automatically" and "then delete them" checked. If you have other sets in your course, you may want to check "Overwrite existing files silently".
  4. Click "Upload"
  5. Go to the Hmwk Sets Editor page.
  6. The 5th line from the top is "Import". Switch from "a single set" to "multiple sets", select the files you want. You probably all of them, so click on the first and hold the shift key down as you click on the last one.
  7. Click "Take Action!"
You now have the the semester's worth of assignments loaded in your course.

The Sets

Each link points to a problem set archive.

MAT 117

Fall 06 Richardson
Fall 06
Internet course Mohacsy Spring 07

MAT 119

Fall 09
Fall 05

MAT 142

Fall 08 Beth Jones
Spring 07
Summer 06

MAT 170

Spring 07
Fall 06
Fall 05

MAT 210

Williams - Fall 2008

MAT 211

Spring 07
Reynolds 9/05

MAT 242

Fall 22 (Heckman)

MAT 243

Spring 18 (Ionascu)
Fall 16 (Ionascu)
Fall 11 (Boerner)

MAT 251

Spring 08

MAT 265

ONLINE (Polletta- Spring 23)
In Person (Ruedemann Spring 21)

MAT 266

Fall 2018 (Vandesande)
Spring 2016 (Odish)
Spring 2014 (Reynolds)

MAT 267

Online (Spring 23 - Jones)
In person (Spring 23 - Jones)

MAT 270

2018- Stewart (Miller)
2014- Briggs/Cochran 2e (Miller)

MAT 271

2023- Stewart (Miller)
2015 - Briggs/Cochran (2e) (Tracogna)
2014 - Briggs/Cochran (1e) (Tracogna)

MAT 272

2019 - Stewart (Reynolds)
2017 - Briggs/Cochran (Tracogna)

MAT 274

Spring 06

MAT 275

Spring 20 (Boyce diPrima) Tracogna

MAT 300

Summer 14 Vaz

MAT 343

Spring 18 Tracogna
Fall 17 Tracogna

STP 226

Spring 06

STP 420

Spring 06

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Instructions for creating a problem collection

To create an archive of problem sets:
  1. Export sets: from the Hmwk Sets Editor page,
    1. Select (with the checkboxes) the problem sets you want to save.
    2. At the top, choose Export and change the drop-drop menu to selected sets, and click Take Action!.
    3. You can revise your choices at this point, but then click the radio button next to Export selected sets and then click Take Action!.
  2. Make an archive: from the File Manager page,
    1. A set you exported called Section 5 will be called setSection_5.def here. Select all of the sets you want to put into the archive. Remember that shift-click will select a range of items, and control-click will toggle whether an individual item is selected or not.

      Note, if you have other files you want to preserve, like special header files or problems you have written, select those at the same time. If you have a whole directory (these appear with a slash at the end of their names) of files, click on the name of the directory.

    2. Click Make Archive. WeBWorK will tell you if it was able to create the archive, and if so, what its name is. The name should end with .tgz. Suppose its name is myoldcourse.tgz.
    3. Now find myoldcourse.tgz in the list of files (looking for the actual name from the last step of course), click on it, and then click the Download button. It should be saved to your computer.
You should now have myoldcourse.tgz on your computer. You can save it for a future semester, and then import it to a course just like any of the .tgz files which can be dowloaded here. You can e-mail it as an attachment to friends so that they can use it in their courses, or e-mail it to tracogna@asu.edu for inclusion here.