The WeBWorK Project (TWP) gratefully acknowledges the contributions of George Jennings (Prof. Emeritus, CSU Dominguez Hills) to the WeBWorK community. For about a decade George has been the primary bug fixer for problems in the OPL, updating and correcting problems to ensure that they are correct and well-written, a role from which he is now retiring. While this service is invisible to most users, it is invaluable to the community as a whole, and TWP extends the thanks of our community to George for his dedication and support.

TWP runs on the work of volunteers like George. If you would like to help out, updating and editing problems or in another capacity, please reach out to us here.

We have scheduled our WeBWorK Symposium (in the traditional ancient Greek sense of the word) at JMM! We will meet at 6pm on Monday, January 5th, at the entry to the Exhibit Hall to go to an appropriate public house to discuss WeBWorK and online math assessment in a social setting. The destination will be posted at the WeBWorK booth in the exhibits, and as a follow up to this post.

In addition, please come to our other events:

• A social networking “workshop” on Monday, January 5: 1–2:30pm, in room 202B in the Convention Center,
• A special session on the state of online math assessment in honor of 30 years of WeBWorK on Tuesday, January 6: 8am–noon, in room 157 in the Convention Center, and
• In the Exhibit Hall!

WeBWorK will be at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in January 2026! Please come by to see us:

• For a social networking “workshop” on Monday, January 5: 1–2:30pm, in room 202B in the Convention Center,
• For a special session on the state of online math assessment in honor of 30 years of WeBWorK on Tuesday, January 6: 8am–noon, in room 157 in the Convention Center,
• And in the Exhibit Hall!

Check out our booth in the exhibit hall for information about a social networking outing after hours, as well!

See https://wiki.openwebwork.org/wiki/Release_notes_for_WeBWorK_2.20 for a list of features, upgrades and bug fixes.

Instructions for upgrading your existing server can be found at https://wiki.openwebwork.org/wiki/Release_notes_for_WeBWorK_2.20#Upgrade_Instructions.

Instructions for setting up a new installation can be found at https://wiki.openwebwork.org/wiki/Installation_Manual_for_2.20_on_Ubuntu.

The Development team plans to release 2.20 by August 2025! A firm date will be announced later. WeBWorK 2.20 includes a number of enhancements and bug fixes, including improvements to LTI connections with an LMS, more functionality in the GraphTool and plot macros, and accessibility enhancements. WeBWorK 2.20 is available as a prerelease (checkout WeBWorK-2.20 and PG-2.20), with an official release expected soon.

In collaboration with PROSE, WeBWorK will be offering drop-in office hours on Zoom this term.

Join us Mondays 4-6pm Eastern on Zoom for help with all of your WeBWorK questions at https://prose.runestone.academy/dropin/. Members of the WeBWorK community will be available to help with questions around installing WeBWorK, using WeBWorK, and authoring your own questions in WeBWorK. The sessions are intended to be informal, so drop in at any point to chat!

For those attending the JMM, WeBWorK will be hosting a symposium (informal gathering) this evening (Friday January 5).

If you are interested in joining please meet outside the exhibit hall in the Moscone Center at 5pm.

TWP is excited to announce that WeBWorK office hours are resuming, starting Monday, 20 November, 2–3pm EST. A link will be posted to the WeBWorK slack, and we’ll aim to update this post with the link as well. On Monday we’ll focus on Getting Started With WeBWorK, with a focus on Instructors.

Unfortunately the workshops at JMM are canceled for 2023.

Questions may be directed to <workshop@openwebwork.org>.

WeBWorK will be in the MAA Pavilion of the exhibit hall for Mathematical Association of America‘s MathFest in Philadelphia Aug 3-5. Make sure to stop by the booth to learn about the exciting new features in WeBWorK 2.17.

Also if you can volunteer for a time slot to help run the booth (no experience necessary!). Contact vandieren@rmu.edu to sign up for a timeslot.