Recorded training sessions

In the Summer of 2020 we ran some online training sessions.

Here are the recordings of these training sessions.

Introduction to Numbas

This session was an introduction to Numbas for people who have never used it before. The first part of the session largely followed the tutorials from this documentation, and then we fielded questions from the audience.

Topics covered include:

• An introduction to Numbas.

• How it’s used at Newcastle University and around the world.

• Navigating around the Numbas editor (following the tutorial Explore the editor).

• Writing your first question (following the tutorial Write your first question)

• Collaborating with others (see Collaborating using Numbas)

• Alternative answers.

• Adaptive marking.

• Substituting variables into displayed maths.

There is a transcript of this recording.

Advanced Numbas training

This session was aimed at experienced users of Numbas, to look at some of the more advanced features.

During the recording of this session, Christian encountered a few bugs in the system which have since been fixed.

Topics covered include:

• Explore mode.

• Marking algorithms.

• Custom part types.

• Question variable generation techniques.

There is a transcript of this recording.