Department of Mathematics --- College of Science --- University of Utah

TEN-MINUTE DIY MANUAL

• Log into your account
Please remeber it is case-sensitive. Also number 1 is different from letter l.

• Password/Email
By click the "Password/Email" button on the "Main Menu", please update your email address and change your password IMMEDIATELY. Go back one page on your browser.

• Course Info
It is located on the right upper corner of the starting page. By clicking "edit" button, you can post a message to your students. Please type in "Hello, world!" and click "Save to [TMPL]/course_info.txt and View". Check the box "in another window" and click "Take Action!". It will bring you to a new tab for your result. Or you can reload the current page. Congratulations for completing your first editing job! Go back one page on your browser.

• Instructor Tools
Click on the "Instructor Tools" on the "Main Menu", the page summarizes most of the commands or you can use the subpages, which we will talk about later. Go back one page on your browser.

• Classlist Editor
Click the "Classlist Editor" button under "Instructor Tools" on the "Menu". Add a fictious student, by click "Add 1 student(s)" and then "Take Action!". Last Name: Math, First Name: Person, SID: 10101, Login Name: c-math, Email Address: hphuang@math.utah.edu, blank for Section, Recitation: your Section No. Then "Add Students". Click on the "Class Editor" button again, you can find your new student, inactive and permission level 0. Please direct any question to Ping.

• Hmwk Sets Editor
Click the "Hmwk Editor" button under "Instructor Tools" on the "Menu". "Create" a new set name "1" as a new empty set. "Create" a new set name "2" as a new empty set. "Import" a single set from "setMAAtutorial.def" with the name "MAAtutorial" assigning this set to "all current users" and "Take Action!". Now you built three sets, one with substantial contents!

• Homework Sets
Click the "Homework Sets" button on the "Menu". You will find setMAAtutorial. Click on it. Then "Download a hardcopy of this homework set". Check the boxes: Show "Correct Answers", "Hint", and "Solutions". Then "Generate hardcopy for selected sets and selected users". Save a copy. Then do it again for "Math, Person (c-math)". What is the difference?

• Library Browser
Click the "Library Browser" button under "Instructor Tools" on the "Menu". Add problems to Target Set "1". Browse "Problem Library". Choose the first problem in "Algebra", "Equations and Inequalities", "Modeling with Equations" and check "Add this problem to the target set on the next update". Then "Update Set". Try again for "Advanced Search". Pull down the menu on "Textbook". Play around and have fun.
Change to Target Set "2", "Browse Problems" from your course. Choose one set. Max. Shown: "All". View Problems. "Mark All For Adding" and then "Update Set".

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