{"id":493,"date":"2012-10-15T20:34:12","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T20:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.numbas.org.uk\/?p=493"},"modified":"2012-10-15T20:34:12","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T20:34:12","slug":"hestem-project-to-put-numbas-exams-and-editor-on-mathcentre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.numbas.org.uk\/theme-testing\/blog\/2012\/10\/hestem-project-to-put-numbas-exams-and-editor-on-mathcentre\/","title":{"rendered":"HESTEM project to put Numbas exams and editor on mathcentre"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the Summer we had a project, funded through HESTEM, to put Numbas material and the new editor on Loughborough University’s excellent math<\/strong>centre<\/a> site.<\/p>\n

We’ve run quite a bit behind schedule for various reasons but we now have some material on the site for students to use, and a fully functional question editor for teachers, stocked up with over 300 questions from our database developed over the past few years here at Newcastle.<\/p>\n

The tests for students are available under the “Test Yourself” header for a few topics. For example, this test on completing the square<\/a>\u00a0allows students to try randomly generated questions on the same subject over and over until they feel happy with it. This is exactly the kind of thing e-assessment is good at: repetitive practice at basic skills at the student’s pace.<\/p>\n

The Numbas editor is a much bigger deal. It’s online at numbas.mathcentre.ac.uk<\/a>. It allows a few levels of interaction:<\/p>\n