Anne Archibald

Match questions with answers does not show questions or answers on marking matrix

1

The marking matrix entry makes invisible the questions and the answers, so you can't actually see which answer and which question each row and column correspond to. This makes entering...

Support parallel evaluation.

18

Support parallelization by speculatively evaluating the objective function. In nested sampling, the points chosen for evaluation depend only on the set of ellipsoids. So if we have n cores we...

Code parts have a space for a correct answer to be supplied. They also carry out validation tests and correctness tests on the student's code. When creating a question, it...

Number part types unable to cope with small numbers

1

I want to ask questions about numerical precision, and the Number part type is failing to recognize entered numbers or produce valid revealed answers. For one question, the smallest acceptable...

No persistent indicator of whether changes have been saved.

1

if you leave a page before the changes have been saved, the changes can fail to ever be recorded. It is hard to tell whether this is happening, because there...

Discards user work when multiple users are editing

1

I have experienced a number of instances where the Numbas editor has lost work that I did: changes I have made to question statements and to grading settings have disappeared...

If PGPLOT_DIR is not set, a bare -I eats -DUSEFFTW and you get a silent miscompilation of fastffts.c and a mystery failure on linking search_bin (missing symbol read_wisdom). On a...

With another not-very-complicated program I am able to trigger a compiler panic: ``` interface MinimalBug2 exposes [ Iterable, toListAppend, ] imports [] Step a s : [Yield a s, Skip...

Pasting into pre blocks loses indentation

2

If I select and copy a block of Python code, then set up a preformatted-text section in a question statement or part prompt, when I paste the Python code into...