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.
At the moment, the database of content in the Numbas editor at numbas.mathcentre.ac.uk contains a lot of stuff, but it’s hard to search, and it’s particularly hard to find good-quality material.
We’d like to improve this, by developing some new tools, and by applying more effort to moderation. Our goal is to start and maintain a library of good-quality, well-organised Numbas questions and exams available for everyone to reuse.
I’ve collected some ideas on how we might do this in a document. Please add your own comments to it.
We’re looking for anyone interested in helping with this project. Your contribution could be:
- Time spent moderating – ad hoc, or committing to a number of hours per year
- Content for the library
- Expertise from previous similar projects
As a first step, I’m running a meeting on August 31st, open to anyone interested in helping. To cover as many time zones as possible, the meeting will run twice: first at 09:00-10:00 BST (GMT+1), and then at 15:00-16:00.
The meeting will take place over Zoom. If you’d like to attend, please fill in this registration form.