Matching

Features:

• Create a problem with any number of matching answer pairs

• Can allow students to see which answers chosen are correct or incorrect

• Provides a way for professors to give students a detailed solution or method to solve the problem.

In this section, we will walk you through the steps of making a Matching Problem. Below is an example of what the Matching Problem we will create looks like in WeBWorK, in the student view. We also created a video tutorial on this section for your viewing pleasure.

1. Enter what you would like to call the Problem Name or the title of the Problem file.

For our example, we will go with “Matching Problem.”

Do not include the quotation marks in the WbWrkGUI if you are following along the example.

2. Click the “Select Destination” button to open another window that contains the documents on your computer (See below).

Save your file in a location where you can easily access it.

We will save to the Desktop.

You can also type in your file destination but we recommend using the “Select Destination” option.

3. Type in what you want your question to be in the yellow textbox with the “Enter the Problem Text” prompt.

For the example problem, we will have “Please match the following letter(s) with the right hand side of its equation.”

4. Type the pairs in each text box with the prompt “<Enter Half of the Matching Pair>”

a. Following our example, we will type “PV” in the top textbox and “= nRT” in the second and then click the “Add Matching Pair” button. (See below)

b. We will add two more pairs “F” “= ma” and “V” “= IR”. (The second screenshot shows all of the pairs created. To see all of the pairs just click on the down arrow and a drop down list will appear.)

c. You can also delete any pairs you created but don't want anymore by clicking on the "Remove Matching Pair" button.

5. You can choose the option to “Show students partial correct answers” or not. This option means that the student can see which pairs he/she got wrong and which ones he/she got right.

We will select “Yes”.

6. The optional Detailed Solutions section allows you to show students what steps to take to solve the problem. Students will be able to see the detailed solution

after the homework set is closed (after the due date of the homework). For our example, we chose not to provide a detailed solution because the problem was pretty simple.

7. Once you are satisfied with the problem, click the “Create” button on the bottom right. You should see text next to the “Create” button saying that the file was successfully created. If you go to the area you selected for the file destination, you should see a file with the name you chose with a “.pg” extension.

See below for what we mean by show partial correct answers. The student can see which pairs he/she matched incorrectly and correctly.