Welcome to the Spanish Web Class, a section of the Web Homework System (WHS) that distributes on-line homework assignments with immediate feedback for the results of student work. Students participate in WHS classes by working on assignments and communicating with the teacher.

If your Spanish instructor is using the WHS for your course, you will have an account created for you at the beginning of the semester. In this case, your instructor will inform you about your login name and password.

If you joined the class later, you will have to register yourself with the WHS. Enter the Web Homework System (https://www.mathclass.org/wqs/default.asp) to create an account or register for a class. For further help, consult the WHS FAQ for UK Students.

To use the Spanish Web Class, you will need a Java enabled web browser such as Netscape 6.1 (or later) or Internet Explorer 5.0 (or later). This software is available free from Netscape and Microsoft websites.

Before using the WHS for the first time, please take a moment to familiarize yourself with the following preliminary instructions. You can also review the Student Tutorial for a more complete description of the WHS. Download the documentation in pdf format or view it on the web.

Announcements
Your instructor will regularly post short messages to the class in the "Announcements" section. Make sure to check this section every time you enter the WHS course to read the latest message from your instructor.

Assignments
Assignments are typically in the form of a set of exercises to which students provide responses in a variety of answer formats.

To work on the assignments for a class select “Assignments” at the WHS main screen, then select the class and assignment. The “Display Assignment” bar will cause the assignment to be presented on the screen.

When responses are entered to some or all of the questions in an assignment and the “Submit and Record Results” button at the bottom of the assignment is pressed the system (a) records all of the student responses, (b) immediately returns an evaluation page and, (c) sends the student and teacher an e-mail with a synopsis of the results.

In the most common format the evaluation page contains:

Note: There is no limit to the number of times a student can submit solutions to a particular assignment. It is quite common for students who have previously submitted homework to re-work and re-submit solutions while reviewing for examinations.

Writing in the answers
Since the WHS is case sensitive it is important to note that the student answers must match one of the choices in a word answer exactly. This includes spaces and punctuation. When entering written answers in an exercise, the responses will be marked correct only if the strings of letters are identical to the correct answer. When you get an incorrect mark on an exercise compare you answers with the answers provided by the WHS to make sure that you didn't forget to write an accent mark, or that you misspelled a word.

If there are several answers in a question or exercise (for example, in the case of a paragraph with several fill-in-the blank answers), you will have to have all the answers correct to receive points for that question or exercise.

Remember: You can make the necessary corrections to an exercise and re-submit your answers until you get a 100% on a particular question

Spanish diacritics
When writing in the answers in Spanish you will have to include the necessary Spanish accent marks. If you don't know how to enter accent marks on your computer, print out the following instructions in pdf format for PC or for Mac

You can also consult the following page to change the settings of your computer: http://www.studyspanish.com/accents/typing.htm

Alternatively, you can also copy and paste each letter that already has the accent mark.

A note from Ken Kubota on accents and the Internet.

More than one possible answer to a question
Most of the Spanish exercises in the WHS will have only one possible answer; in the case that there is more than one answer to a question, you will get all the possible answers after submitting the exercise. You will see all the possible answers one after another separated by the pound sign (#), like this:

Note: You only have to provide one possible right answer when completing this type of exercise.

Open-ended questions and short essay exercises
When you complete an exercise with open-ended questions (for example, questions where your responses would be part of your own experience: What is your name? Where do you live? What do you think about traveling to Spain?, etc.), or a short essay type exercise, your responses will be submitted to your instructor for correction; your instructor will later return these exercises to you with the necessary corrections and/or grading marks.

Student Tutorial
Download the documentation in pdf format or view it on the web.

 

Information for teachers interested in participating in this project

Credits:
The Spanish Web Class project is co-directed by Inmaculada Pertusa (pertusa@uky.edu) at the University of Kentucky, and by Melissa Stewart (Melissa.Stewart@wku.edu) at Western Kentucky University, and is sponsored by the Kentucky Council on Post-Secondary Education, and University of Kentucky Information Systems © Copyright 2003, University of Kentucky, Western Kentucky University.

The WHS is brought to you by UK Math Sciences Computing Facility
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