After logging in, you will see your personalized WebAssign Home page showing courses for which the instructor has included you in the roster. If you see more than one course, select the course you want to work on from the pulldown menu.
Your Home page for a particular class allows you to do the following:
View the list of upcoming assignments
Access a list of your Current Assignments or Past Assignments
Find out when your assignments are due
View your Calendar, listing your assignments on the due dates for all your courses, and add new personal events
View your Grades, if your instructor has posted them
Access the Communication page, containing Forums and Messages if your instructor has implemented them
Access the Student Guide
Access the My Options link to change your email address, password, skin color, or language
Logout of WebAssign
The Home page also gives the following information:
Your name, as it is recorded in WebAssign
Your instructor’s name
The date and time when the Home page was delivered
Announcements from your instructor
Assignments that are not a link, such as the Midterm in the example above, are external to WebAssign, often given in class on paper.
Your Home page may have a module named WebAssign Notices. The most common notice is about Access Codes. See Chapter 2 for information on Access Codes.
Your instructor can customize your Home page by removing some of the modules and by allowing you to customize your Home page. The following screen shows the Home page for a student, whose instructor has allowed the students to rearrange the modules and hide some of them.
The white triangles in the header of each module allow you to move the module in the direction indicated. The underscore will minimize the module and the X will hide it. In the above example, the instructor has allowed the student to rearrange the modules and thus the white triangles are displayed. The instructor also allowed the student to hide or minimize My Calendar, and About this Class modules, but not to hide or minimize the Communication, My Assignments, Grades, and Announcements modules.
It is good practice to change your initial password that was assigned to you by your instructor. To change your password,
1. Click My Options in the upper right of your WebAssign page.
2. Enter your new password twice and enter your current password in the box that is to the left of the Save button.
3. Click Save.
If the change was successful, you will see a message, "Your password has been changed."
It is good practice to enter an email address for your WebAssign account. Your instructor may have entered one for you. To view your email address in your WebAssign account or to change it, perform the following steps:
1. Click My Options in the upper right of your WebAssign page.
2. Your email address is listed as it appears in your WebAssign account.
3. If you wish to change your email address or enter one where none exists, enter your preferred email address in the form.
4. Enter your current password in the box next to the Save button and click Save.
A confirmation email is then sent to the entered email address. If you receive the email and click the link in the email, your email address will be changed.
Your email address is not changed until you confirm that you can receive an email at that address.