You will use the WileyPLUS on-line system for all your homework.  It also contains an e-book of your textbook. Since the homework system comes with an e-book the hard copy of the textbook is optional. Due dates for homework will be posted on the WileyPLUS page for each class. On homework you may work with others, but you must each submit your work separately in WileyPLUS. (Many questions are “parameterized”, so that no two students will get exactly the same form of a particular problem.) Representing somebody else’s work as your own is plagiarism, for which there can be severe penalties under University policy.

Registering for WileyPLUS:

Registration for WileyPLUS is required and should be done immediately.  You may register for WileyPLUS in either one of the following two ways:

• If you are unsure you will stay registered in the course past the add/drop period or you need a little more time to purchase the long-term code, you should choose this option. You can register for a temporary account for the first 14 days of the semester. If you decide to stay in the course past the add/drop period, you must purchase and register via your own code (see three options above). All your work under the temporary account will be transferred to your new account.  Remember: if you choose to use the temporary account, it will expire after 14 days, and you will be shut out of WileyPLUS unless you register again with your own (purchased) code.

• If you know you will stay in the course past the add/drop period, you should simply purchase your own code immediately.

We have negotiated a special price with the publisher for the WileyPLUS access code. This contains the e-book (no printed text)+ WileyPLUS access code. To purchase the access code for this special, reduced price, you will need to purchase it directly through the publisher and use the discount code: UMA16

This will give you access to the web page set up especially for UMass students, the total price will be: $45. During the registration process, please be sure to check the box next to the product before checking out. It will feel like you are not being granted the discount because the $45 price will not show up until you check out. Please double check your receipt to make sure you were charged only $45

If you purchase the access code any other way, it is okay but you will not get the reduced price. You are not required to have the printed textbook for this course – however, if you’d like to have it, you can follow the link on your course Spire page to the Amazon website to purchase a paper copy of the textbook. Once you have purchased the code you must register into our specific section of math127.

Detailed instructions to do this each semester or summer/winter session are in the course policies document posted on the Blackboard page.

Please also make sure you enter your UMass STUDENT ID NUMBER during registration.

One of the many benefits of using WileyPLUS is that you will have the opportunity to redo homework problems multiple times in order to get a 100% as long as you are still working before the homework deadline.  WileyPLUS saves, records, and scores all work that has been done on an assignment up to the deadline. Each assignment has its own due date which you are responsible for knowing.  You will be awarded full credit for the answers you complete correctly by the due date. You will be awarded 50% of the credit for answers you complete correctly after the due date. This is to allow for all reasons that homework is not completed on time, including illness, emergencies, officially excused absence from campus, and absence for religious observance.

WileyPLUS will operate on a PC or a Macintosh computer.  If you do not have your own, you will be able to access WileyPLUS on all OIT computers on campus.