Features Overview

Comprehensive Support

We at WebAssign pride ourselves on the speed, effectiveness, and personal touch provided by our expert in-house support team. Live help is available by phone or email, and our online documentation is comprehensive, understandable, and available anytime.

Courses & Sections

Are you teaching a course with 10 students or a course with 500 students across multiple sections? WebAssign can easily handle any situation, even allowing you to specify different instructors, with different customization options, for each section of a course.

Secure Testing

Want to give a test online but are concerned about cheating? WebAssign allows you to password protect the assignment, set a time limit for completion, restrict access to certain IP addresses, and even prevent students from accessing any other applications on their computer while taking the test.

Assignments

Creating and scheduling an assignment with WebAssign is as easy as choosing the questions and the due date. Assignments can be homework, additional practice, quizzes, prelabs, lab reports, tests, or anything else you can imagine.

Gradebook

Grading homework, calculating weighted averages, and assigning letter grades, WebAssign can do it all quickly and easily. You are always in complete control, and both faculty and students can access grades anytime and anywhere an Internet connection is available.

Communication & Extensions

Keep in touch with your students using WebAssign's built-in email and announcement capabilities. Grant extensions to one student or the whole class with a click of the mouse. Allow students to contact you through the Ask Your Teacher link, a unique feature that automatically provides the student's query along with the exact question, a record of the student's answer, and the correct answer so you can quickly assess the problem and appropriately guide the student.

Technical Integration

Course Calendar

See all upcoming assignments and tests on one user-friendly calendar, for all your courses or only one at a time. Quickly send reminders to students about due dates, review sessions, or tests. You can even add non-course events to the calendar; mark them private and only you can see them.

Faculty Collaboration

WebAssign makes it easy to share homework assignments or sets of questions with faculty colleagues at other institutions. In addition, our listserv is a great place to discuss new instructional ideas and pick up user tips.

Web-based and Secure

With WebAssign, there's no software to install, servers to manage, or databases to maintain.  We take care of everything, providing a online system with real-time functionality that is available around the clock to both instructors and students. At WebAssign, we take security very seriously and are committed to protecting the privacy of student records.