AMATH Assignment Generator - Technical Support

1. Place the provided CD in the drive of a computer with access to your application server. If the install program does not start automatically, run the setup.exe file found on the CD.

2. Important! When prompted for an installation directory, make sure to preserve the default directory structure or your software may not work correctly. For example do not simply choose "Z:" as your installation directory. This will cause an error. Instead, and preferred, specify "Z:\amath\agen\", or "Z:\aps\amath\agen\". Please make note of the installation directory. It will be needed for the next steps.

3. After installation, the network user rights need to be modified before AMATH Assignment generator will run correctly. For the assignment generator, we recommend that only teachers have access to it. In the installation directory, you will need to assign the corresponding network rights (for the users/groups who will use the program) to the following three files:

   1. AssignGen.exe: Execute

   2. Wardnew.mdb: All but Administrative

   3. master.txt: Read

4. Copy the system files to the Windows/System directory of each client machine. If your client machines are running Windows NT, be sure to copy the system files to the proper NT system directory. The system files can be found on your installation CD in a directory titled "systemfiles". Be careful not to overwrite any system files that are newer that the ones supplied on the installation CD.

5. On each of the clients, map a network drive to the AMATH installation directory. Create a shortcut on each of the client computers to the executable "AssignGen.exe". This shortcut must go through the mapped drive. It is suggested that you rename the shortcut to "AMATH Assignment Generator". Do not use the right click then "send to desktop as shortcut" method. This method is not compatible with mapped network drives. You must first create a shortcut and copy/cut and paste it to the desired location.

6. Test the Assignment generator on each client machine. If the login screen is not displayed, then you may be

7. presented with any number of error messages. Almost all errors can be corrected by performing the following

8. operations.

   1. Restart the computer.

   2. Click on Start and then Run. In the text box type "regsvr32 /u dao350.dll" without the quotation marks

   3. and then click OK.

   4. Click on Start and then Run. In the text box type "regsvr32 /c c:\windows\system\dao350.dll" and then click OK.

   5. For more detail, refer to the document "agenfix.pdf" located on your installation CD.

Follow all of the steps for network installation except 2.2 and 2.3. Please only install the Assignment generator on only one stand-alone machine. The assignment generator stores assignments in a database, and if there are multiple copies of the database, people will become very confused.

1. Creating a personalized login.

   1. Start the Assignment Generator by double clicking on the AMATH Assignment Generator shortcut.

   2. Select the "New User" button

   3. Enter your name as you would like it to be displayed to your students.

   4. Enter a 4-10 character password. Please use only letters and numbers.

   5. Verify the password you choose.

   6. Enter you mother’s maiden name or an alternate password. This password can be used if you loose or forget your original password. We recommend that you use your mother’s maiden name because if both passwords are lost, then your information cannot be recovered. The software will not transmit your information outside of the local database.

   7. Verify your alternative password

   8. Click "Continue".

   9. Depending on your system configuration, you may be presented with an error prompt stating, "AMATH CD is not loaded. Load the AMATH CD and restart the demo." Do not worry about this. Your information has been successfully stored.  Simply restart the Assignment Generator and login as described below with the information you just entered.

2. Logging into the AMATH Assignment Generator

   1. Start the Assignment Generator by double clicking on the appropriate icon.

   2. Locate you name in the registered users box and click it once. A box will appear prompting you for you password.

   3. Enter you original password or your alternate password and then click continue. This will bring you to the main menu.

COMING SOON! - More support content on using the AMATH Assignment Generator

© Copyright 1993-2005 AMATH Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.  Click For Legal, Privacy, and Other Important Information.