Last year, some members of the WeBWorK community presented/attended the EAMS conference and it was a great experience! We encourage you to propose a talk and/or attend this year. Below is the information:

The fourth international conference on E-Assessment in Mathematical Sciences (EAMS) takes place between 21^st June and 2^nd July 2021. The conference brings together researchers and practitioners with an interest in e-assessment for mathematics and science. 

EAMS 2021 will again be an entirely online conference, following last year’s successful move to a fully virtual format. The conference will feature a mix of live sessions and web-based activities, with plenty of opportunity for discussion and collaboration. 

As many of us have spent much of the last year delivering teaching and assessment online, EAMS 2021 presents an opportunity to share best practice, for experts in the field to present the latest developments, and for those new to e-assessment to get hands-on with software. 

Live talks will take place over Zoom at 9am or 4pm BST (UTC +1) each day, with recordings available later. We hope that the online format and longer timescale will allow participants to engage more deeply with the material presented. 

The call for talk and workshop proposals is currently open. If you have some research or an innovative technique related to mathematical e-assessment that you would like to present, then please submit an abstract at eams.ncl.ac.uk/call-for-speakers.  

To attend the conference, please register for free at eams.ncl.ac.uk/register. 

The CUNY OER WeBWorK Fellows are pleased to share the following WeBWorK courses:

1. Calculus I (aligned with Openstax)
2. Calculus III (2 courses available, one aligned with Openstax and the other with Larson Calculus)
3. College Algebra and Trigonometry (aligned with Openstax)
4. Precalculus (aligned with Openstax)
5. Introductory Statistics with Probability (aligned with Openstax)

If you would like any of the above courses, .tgz files are available. Please contact Marianna Bonanome (mbonanome@citytech.cuny.edu) or Andrew Parker (kparker@citytech.cuny.edu).

Visit their site for more information and to learn about WeBWorK courses and LibreTexts currently under development.

Many thanks to all who attended Tea Time #2! We had a fruitful discussion. The recording of the session can be found here.

TWP would like to start offering office hours so community members could get help with coding problems, maintaining the software and using the platform. If you have WW expertise, please consider volunteering to cover some of the office hours. Here is the sign up link.

Some links shared during the discussion:

https://webwork.maa.org/wiki/MultiAns…​

https://webwork.maa.org/wiki/Weighted…​

Here are the slides from the Introduction to WeBWorK presentation at the 2021 Joint Mathematics Meetings. We’ll post the video when it becomes available.

For a limited time as part of the JMM, you are welcome to test out the WeBWorK demo. If you have any questions, feel free to ask on our Slack Channel.

The WeBWorK Project will have a virtual exhibit as part of the MAA exhibit booth at the Joint Mathematics Meetings. Please stop by to see us. The following zoom sessions are part of our exhibit, but we’ll also have asynchronous discussions and posts.
Wed Jan 6, noon-1:00pm* WeBWorK Problem Authoring Session
Thurs Jan 7, noon-1:00pm Introduction to WeBWorK
Thurs Jan 8, 6:00-7:00pm WeBWorK Symposium (BYOB) – meet up with the WeBWorK community
Fri Jan 9, noon-1:00pm WeBWorK Q&A and Show-and-Tell
*(times listed are mountain)

Share your favorite WeBWorK problems/features and ask your questions in one of the zoom sessions or asynchronously through this slack channel.

Join us as we come together as a community to discuss assessment. Sessions will include

• Lessons learned from Spring 2020
• Basic problem authoring
• Writing solver-resistant problems
• Exam creation and controlled randomization
• Stress testing and contingency planning
• Assessment best practices from ASU and SNHU
• Short talks on various topics related to finals and assessment
• Community discussion on future directions