{"id":1695,"date":"2021-08-19T14:55:44","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T14:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.numbas.org.uk\/?p=1695"},"modified":"2021-11-15T13:40:02","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T13:40:02","slug":"help-wanted-the-organising-numbas-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.numbas.org.uk\/theme-testing\/blog\/2021\/08\/help-wanted-the-organising-numbas-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Help wanted: The Organising Numbas Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the coming year, I&#8217;m going to focus less on developing new features in Numbas, and more on organising the content we&#8217;ve already got.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the moment, the database of content in the Numbas editor at <a href=\"https:\/\/numbas.mathcentre.ac.uk\/\">numbas.mathcentre.ac.uk<\/a> contains a lot of stuff, but it\u2019s hard to search, and it\u2019s particularly hard to find good-quality material.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019d 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve collected <a href=\"https:\/\/newcastle-my.sharepoint.com\/:w:\/g\/personal\/ncp34_newcastle_ac_uk\/EZvZXaSPuz9Hp-LIWv4kGTwB7HyEy_4nuh1nEbIEhDwZ1A?e=FHTPd1\">some ideas on how we might do this in a document<\/a>. Please add your own comments to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;re looking for anyone interested in helping with this project. Your contribution could be:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Time spent moderating \u2013 ad hoc, or committing to a number of hours per year\u00a0<\/li><li>Content for the library\u00a0<\/li><li>Expertise from previous similar projects<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>As a first step, I&#8217;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meeting will take place over Zoom. If you&#8217;d like to attend, please <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.ncl.ac.uk\/view.php?id=11991080\">fill in this registration form<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the coming year, I&#8217;m going to focus less on developing new features in Numbas, and more on organising the content we&#8217;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\u2019s hard to search, and it\u2019s particularly hard to find good-quality material. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.numbas.org.uk\/theme-testing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.numbas.org.uk\/theme-testing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.numbas.org.uk\/theme-testing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.numbas.org.uk\/theme-testing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.numbas.org.uk\/theme-testing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.numbas.org.uk\/theme-testing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1696,"href":"https:\/\/www.numbas.org.uk\/theme-testing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions\/1696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.numbas.org.uk\/theme-testing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.numbas.org.uk\/theme-testing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.numbas.org.uk\/theme-testing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}