WeBWorK

WeBWork is an academic assessment program created in 1994 that is put in use for the science department of Stabington Slights High School. It is particularly infamous at Stabington due to its unforgiving attempt counts and help for the problem sets assigned through this program, or rather lack thereof. Furthermore, WeBWork only takes answers that follow the accepted format perfectly, meaning that even rounding decimals a few places too far could result in failure. Space inputs were especially hard to spot in an answer, resulting in even more failed attempts. 
The WeBWorK servers are hosted in Strebwork's classroom, on his desk. This, plus the fact that Ol Strebby had several courses where you extensively suffered through difficult WeBWorK's, has earned him the nickname you read here. Thus he has been given the rename of "Dr. Strebwork" per the AHS RPG, and the Garf Lore. WeBWorK in itself is also an entity within the Garf Lore, a malevolent machine that wishes to infect the school's inhabitants and technology in order to "prepare for some unseen threat". 
== LaTeX Format ==
Covering complex topics such as Chemistry and Physics required that the WeBWork program was able to handle letters beyond the English language and special mathematical formatting such as fractions and exponents. In order to do this, students needed to answer using LaTeX format in the answer box, which meant directly inputting escape sequences into the answer box for the computer to read. Not only was this confusing for students focused on a different topic, but it also encouraged exceedingly long answers to simple questions that were hard to fix correctly without wasting more attempts. Think of it as attempting to code in a terminal.
== Infamous Problems ==
Problems that were not covered in class due to time constraints were also put on these homework sets. Physics sets were especially at fault for such difficult problems, as one of these juggernaut questions could prevent a student from earning a perfect grade on the homework altogether. A good example of one of these vastly more difficult problems is known as "The Well Problem." 
If a rock is dropped into a well, and the sound from its impact is recorded at a time after the rock had been dropped, how deep was the well?
Further problems that resulted in unneeded anxiety include:
* The Double Block Force Problem
* The Strut Problem
* The Crow/Train Problem
* The Drywall Problem
* The Plank Box Problem
All of these problems presented are valid at a college level, but the jump from Algebra II was a bit much to make for most classes.
=== Battles with WeBWork ===
In the 2021-2022 school year, MondayMan and Tactician took the first AP level physics course and faced off with WeBWork. The perfectionist problems called for hours of collaboration between the two in order to get the maximum grade. Other classes using WeBWork deilvered mass amounts of problems such as Chemistry and Calculus, not requiring nearly the same amount of cooperation. 
== Legacy ==
WeBWorK would remain as one of the most infamous hated things about Stabington, and its safe to say not a single student misses it. Megamind reminds memebers of the Council of its pain by sending the WeBWorK completed "perfect" banner every time someone sends a message containing only that word.
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