The first week he couldnât demonstrate how to log into Web Assign. The log in page was asking for what school he was from, and he kept leaving it blank, or misspelling ect⦠Webassign student discussion how to# So I guess it kind of comes down to it works, but there are some problems where it would be nice to have a little more feedback like I had from Mastering Chemistry. Now I have to study for the physics test tomorrow on energy and stop distracting myself. I have only used WebAssign once, and it was with a book that is not heavily supported yet. Very few of the features were available for problems from that book, and very few problems from the book had been made available in WebAssign. I have also been using Mastering Physics for a year, I have more experience with it, and it's with a book that is extensively supported by the publisher. In general, I like the availability of instant feedback and do-overs. Yes, there are students who try things mindlessly until they get it right and collect their partial credit. The reality is that for any homework system there will always be students who find ways to not learn. But online homework systems are definitely superior to paper homework, in that the feedback is available immediately for those who are willing to try to correct their mistakes and learn.
It beats the paper system where you do it, hand it in, wait a few days or more, then get it back when you're already busy with a new task. So online homework isn't perfect, but it has a lot going for it.Īs to the particulars of WebAssign, having used Mastering Physics I think that WebAssign has more potential. It's easier to customize and control things, easier to write your own problems (not that I did much of this, but I did a bit), and easier to make documents available. It has some of the capabilities of Blackboard in that regard. It's also cheaper than Mastering Physics.
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Webassign student discussion full#īut I can't give it a full recommendation over Mastering Physics until I've tried it with a fully-supported book.Īnyway, I definitely recommend online homework, and WebAssign seems to be a decent enough system in comparison to its main competitor. I used WebAssign during my last three years teaching HS physics, using both Hewitt's college-level Conceptual Physics text and Cutnell & Johnson's trig-based text. I didn't ask permission from my school head I just did it. For HS students, the fee was $4 and some change. With our small class size, I just paid the student fees from my budget. The first year was a little rough, since it took me a while to figure out WA and how best to use it. A perennial problem was dealing with students who are not really computer-savvy. Despite frequent reminders not to use the AOL web browser and to save your answers as you work, some still did. For those, we reverted to paper assignments. Many just never got in their heads that having the text and their notebook nearby would be beneficial. Īfter the first year, reactions from the students were mostly positive. The kids who perennially forgot to do the work, lost their papers, mislaid their books, said it helped them stay organized. They liked the instant feedback (for the non-essay questions) and the running tally of their course grades. Detractors did not like the problems accessing WA - it was sometimes slow - and the lack of flexibility in scoring the answers.
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