Finding Funds

WebAssign is a subscription service. As an instructor, you can sign up to use it at any time at no cost. A fee is incurred only when your students start to do their homework. Because the student fee is a new cost to contend with, you may wonder how to pay for the service.

Here are some strategies other WebAssign teachers have found successful:

1. Ask your textbook rep to bundle the student WebAssign access code with a new textbook. Often the cost is the same, or only slightly more.
2. Some schools pay the student fee using the "Bill Institution" option when setting up their classes in WebAssign.
3. Ask your department head to pay the student fee. Often they have the resources to support your teaching needs.
4. Require your students to pay for the fee by purchasing WebAssign Access Codes either in your student bookstore or online with WebAssign.
5. If you have a technology coordinator who supplies your institution with computers and Internet support, ask if funds are available for computer instructional services. Some coordinators are anxious to see their teachers using computers for student learning rather than word processing, email, and so forth.
6. Ask the decision-makers at your institution if monies are available. Deans, provosts, principals, and chairs are often responsible for making financial choices, and WebAssign could become an important (and supported) part of your institution's resources.
7. If you teach in a secondary school, you may discover that your PTA is willing to get the ball rolling and provide funds for WebAssign.

We hope you will find these creative suggestions and solutions useful. If you have any other ideas about generating funds to pay for WebAssign, we would appreciate hearing from you.