Numbas update
Christian Lawson-Perfect
Newcastle University
EAMS 2022
“In the coming year, I’m going to focus less on developing new features in Numbas, and more on organising the content we’ve already got.”
numbas.mathcentre.ac.uk/stats:
- 100,000+ questions
- ~9,500 published items
- ~8,000 users
- ~1,500 institutions
Community stats
- Runtime translated to 18 languages (LTI tool only 2!)
- ~ 20 pull requests in the last year
- ~ A dozen papers mentioning Numbas
Numbas user meeting
LTI tool v3.0
- Getting a grip on async tasks!
- Docker
- Managing versions better
numbas.org.uk/blog/2021/11/numbas-lti-provider-v3-0/
We're taking on more hosting contracts (talk to us if interested!)
.exam schema
Numbas Open Resource Library
Aim: Collect good, reliable open-access material in a moderated library.
Behind the design of Numbas
numbas.org.uk/behind-the-design/
~ 13,000 words so far
Custom input methods
Pre-submit tasks
Graph theory
(demo)
Improvements to JSXGraph
Queues
Autocompletion in the editor
Aims for the next year: Producing working-out
Aims for the next year: Lockdown app