Once in a while, that includes the textbook and any online homework systems. So the department continually reviews its calculus sequence, making adjustments as needed. You want an ecosystem that will help the under-prepared students catch up and succeed, as well as push the students who are doing well. All having different backgrounds in math. Several thousand (I think around 8k+ last time I checked) students go through the calculus sequence every year. Picking a textbook and an online homework system for a multi-semester calculus sequence that satisfies the needs of so many different students is a tedious process. Why we put up with this: student success. The largest chunk of the money goes to Cengage. A small percentage of the cost goes to the WebStore for cost recovery. WebAssign is paid a flat fee from the publisher (Cengage). We held out the longest.Īs to who's getting paid: none of the faculty at U of I are paid. The publisher (Cengage) took away the 'homework only' option for WebAssign country-wide. Academic probation/Drop action/Readmission.Please message the moderators if you encounter anyone claiming an affiliation with /r/uiuc.Ĭomments view so you don't miss anything Rules This subreddit is not sponsored or endorsed by the University of Illinois or any other on-campus group. It's probably been removed by the overzealous reddit spam filter. Message a moderator if your posts are not showing up.

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