I will give a quick introduction to the homework question capabilities of WeBWorK (http://webwork.maa.org) with emphasis on the range of mathematics material and question types that can be posed and checked for correctness by WeBWorK I will also describe some of the projects undertaken by the WeBWorK community including an existing national library of over 12,000 mathematics questions.

WeBWorK is an online homework delivery and grading system originally developed at the University of Rochester. It is emerging as one of the premiere choices for online Mathematics education across the United States. WeBWorK is currently being used by over 100 colleges, universities and high schools in courses from algebra and pre-calculus to vector calculus, differential equations, linear algebra and statistics.

Spearheaded by Professors Michael Gage and Arnold Pizer, and Dean Vicki Roth and supported for the last 10 years by the NSF, WeBWorK is open source software, freely available under the GPL license, and is supported by a few dozen core developers and a community of hundreds of instructors writing problems and supporting each others' efforts. Thousands of mathematics students use WeBWorK everyday from servers located on their own campuses. We also host individual courses for smaller classes and institutions at the University of Rochester.

The new central location (still under construction but usable) for documentation and on-line forums is http://webwork.maa.org.

In a later session there will be an opportunity for a hands-on WeBWorK demonstration for those with laptops with wireless connections to the internet.

WeBWorK gives students instantaneous feedback on the correctness of their solution. Homework problems and exam questions can be tailored to each student and grading is automated. Grades are transportable to/from Excel. Experience shows that students work much harder on their homework and most repeat their calculations until they get all of their answers correct. Their questions during office hours are much more focused and studies have shown that students in classes with WeBWorK achieve higher scores on exams.

WeBWorK won the International Congress on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics (ICTCM) award for excellence and innovation with the use of technology in collegiate mathematics and has been featured at popular MAA mini-workshops at nearly every annual Joint Mathematics Meeting from New Orleans (2001) to San Diego(2008). In August 2007 thirty developers attended a special workshop devoted to enhancing WeBWorK's capabilities sponsored by American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) in Palo Alto.