Numbas is an e-assessment system developed by the e-learning unit in the school of mathematics, statistics and physics.
It’s been in use for around a decade, within Newcastle and around the world.
This page contains information for professional services staff supporting modules which use Numbas for assessment.
Continue reading “Numbas guidance for support staff”It’s recently been announced that Newcastle will replace Blackboard with Canvas as our main virtual learning environment from the 2020/21 academic year. We’ve had a few questions from colleagues about how this will affect Numbas, so this is a short note to say, in essence, it won’t.
Numbas is currently linked to Blackboard using the LTI standard, which Canvas also supports. When we switch to Canvas, links to Numbas will work the same way.
Multiple institutions around the world are already successfully using Numbas with Canvas. We will of course do our own testing before the switch happens.
