{"id":907,"date":"2016-01-20T13:59:25","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T13:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.numbas.org.uk\/?p=907"},"modified":"2016-01-21T08:23:59","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T08:23:59","slug":"all-questions-written-by-newcastle-university-school-of-mathematics-and-statistics-now-freely-available-to-re-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.numbas.org.uk\/theme-testing\/blog\/2016\/01\/all-questions-written-by-newcastle-university-school-of-mathematics-and-statistics-now-freely-available-to-re-use\/","title":{"rendered":"All questions written by Newcastle University School of Mathematics and Statistics now freely available to re-use"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here at the School of Mathematics and Statistics at Newcastle University, we provide computer-based assessment through Numbas to all of our first- and second-year undergraduate maths modules, as well as many other courses at later stages or for other schools. We write these questions on a private Numbas\u00a0editor, so that we don’t accidentally reveal content\u00a0to students, and so we can control editing access through our centralised IT system.<\/p>\n

However, it’s always been our policy that everything we create will end up on the public editor at numbas.mathcentre.ac.uk<\/a>, shared under a CC-BY<\/a> licence. It’s been quite a while since we last\u00a0copied anything over, so I’ve spent this morning copying over just about everything we’ve got. It’s all organised under a new account,\u00a0Newcastle University Mathematics and Statistics<\/a>. At the moment, we’ve got 101\u00a0exams and 497 questions – that’s a lot of maths!<\/p>\n

This academic year we’ve reinvented our first-year syllabus, so at the moment only content for\u00a0our semester 1\u00a0modules is on the public database. All of our second year modules are there, however, as well as third-year courses on group theory<\/a>, coding theory,<\/a> and number theory and cryptography<\/a>. \u00a0I’ve also transferred\u00a0each of the exams we’d made available on mathcentre.ac.uk<\/a> to the\u00a0school account.<\/p>\n

I’ve written a few extensions to add data types and functions necessary for a few of our more advanced courses, which are also available on the editor and on GitHub. They are:<\/p>\n