{"id":489,"date":"2012-03-31T08:22:21","date_gmt":"2012-03-31T08:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.numbas.org.uk\/?p=489"},"modified":"2015-05-28T13:54:16","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T13:54:16","slug":"numbas-in-operation-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.numbas.org.uk\/theme-testing\/blog\/2012\/03\/numbas-in-operation-in-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Numbas in operation in 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill has written this report\u00a0about how Numbas is being used this year for a University committee. I thought it was worth sharing.<\/p>\n<div>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/maths\/\">School of Maths &amp; Stats<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p>Numbas will be used for all first year modules and service teaching in Maths &amp; Stats in 2012\/2013. This is in formative mode with an in-course assessment component.\u00a0 Will be extended to all second year modules in 2013\/2014. Note that presently this is the most extensive use of formative e-assessment in UK HE and is based on our original award winning use of formative e-assessment.<\/p>\n<h3>Transfer to other Universities<\/h3>\n<p>Two universities are transferring the technology from Newcastle as part of an HE STEM project: Chemistry at Bradford and Maths at Kingston. This will be finished by August 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Birmingham University are talking to us in early April about using Numbas in their foundation courses and in their maths support system.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mathcentre.ac.uk\/\">Mathcentre<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>There is now a new project starting April 2012 to embed Numbas in mathcentre.<\/p>\n<h3>OER and Numbas<\/h3>\n<p>We are running <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/quilt\/about\/events\/item\/hea-jisc-open-educational-resources-workshop\">an HEA\/JISC workshop on preparing OER materials using Numbas<\/a> on April 10.<\/p>\n<p>This is free and open to all.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/students\/mathsaid\/\">Maths-Aid<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>We are developing new materials for Maths-Aid using Numbas as part of e-learning and support packages. Also preparing materials and resources (eg DVDs) for revision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill has written this report\u00a0about how Numbas is being used this year for a University committee. I thought it was worth sharing. School of Maths &amp; Stats Numbas will be used for all first year modules and service teaching in Maths &amp; Stats in 2012\/2013. This is in formative mode with an in-course assessment component.\u00a0 [&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\/489"}],"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=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.numbas.org.uk\/theme-testing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":734,"href":"https:\/\/www.numbas.org.uk\/theme-testing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions\/734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.numbas.org.uk\/theme-testing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.numbas.org.uk\/theme-testing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.numbas.org.uk\/theme-testing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}