Date: March 27, 2022

A Brief Introduction to Webassign

Here is a description of how to get registered on Webassign and begin accessing the homework.

• Go to this web address https://www.webassign.net/washington/login.html. Note that this is a specific UW allocated Webassign page.
• Click on the “LOG IN” button. You will be asked to login to your MyUW account. You should end up at a page with access to your Math 224 assignments or be presented with a “My Classes” drop-down menu that includes Math 224 as an option. After the two-week grace period at the beginning of the quarter, you will need an access code for Webassign.
• If you purchased a Lifetime-of-the-Edition (LOE) access code for Math 124/5/6, then you do not need a new code for Math 224.
• You can purchase Webassign access, along with an electronic copy of the text, directly from Webassign/Cengage by following the instructions on your Webassign Student Dashboard. The bookstore also carries Webassign access codes.
• The “Guide” and “Help” links in the upper right corner may help you find your way around Webassign.
• When you open up a homework assignment, you will see empty boxes for your answers. Sometimes the answers are numerical (e.g., 1.25 or 5/4), sometimes symbolic (e.g., 2x + x² ). A palette of mathematical symbols is provided to allow you to enter symbolic notation.
• When you open a homework assignment, you have the option to submit an answer OR save your work for later. You can also print out the entire homework, work on it away from the computer, then return and enter answers later.
• On most questions, you are allowed 5 tries to enter the correct answer. After five incorrect submissions, the correct answer pops up and you are given 0 on that particular question. (The number of submissions for a multiple choice question depends on the number of answer choices, but is usually one or two submissions. For True/False or Yes/No questions, you get only one submission. To see the number of allowed submissions, click on the “Question Details” link at the top of the question.)
• You will find that many of the problems have “randomized” numbers in them. For example, on a particular problem your homework may involve working with the equation 2x² + 3y² = 7 . However, when you look at your friend’s homework, the same problem might instead involve the equation 3x² + 5y² = 7 . These slight randomized changes insure that no single answer key can be posted online for everyone to use.