I’ve just added support for matrices and vectors to Numbas’ JME system. You can now do some very simple linear algebra calculations. This is mainly useful for generating question statements.
For more information, have a look at the relevant commit message.
Maths-Aid at Newcastle University commissioned some worksheets to help first-year engineering students with commonly-requested topics, so we’ve been making some quick revision tests with Numbas to go with them.
So far we have one test online, to go with the simple second-order ODE worksheet. Because a Numbas test is just HTML, we could just upload the test to our FTP and it worked without having to do any fiddling with servers or asking for help from an admin. The turnaround from deciding to make the test to having it online and working was just a few hours.
I’ve just released v1.4 of Numbas on Github. I increase the version number whenever there are significant additions to the system, and there are loads this time.
Here’s what’s changed since v1.3: Read the rest
I gave another presentation about Numbas last week at the e-Assessment Scotland conference in Dundee. I revised my old slides and created a better demo exam, so I thought I’d better link to them from here. I’m thinking about recording a screencast of how to use Numbas – would that interest anybody?
Anyway, those slides – click here.
I’ve had to give a few presentations about Numbas at various places in the past month, so I wrote a quick set of slides. I’ve just uploaded it here.
I created the slideshow using Slidy, which is much better at using HTML for slideshows than my attempt.
Numbas, my web-based e-assessment system, is now available under an Apache 2.0 licence at github. That means it’s finally properly open-source, and anyone can do whatever they like with it.