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Notes on the NPL: What it has, What it needs
The NPL was created by Jeff Holt, John Jones and Bill Ziemer.
Organization
By default, we see a page with subject, chapter, section.
Issues
Additional Metadata
- Learning objectives (can this be addressed by more or better keyword tagging, and/or semantic tagging?)
- Frequency of use, or number of errors per problem; could this be gathered from remote sites?
- When should this be done? Browser, or instructor based---so an instructor could submit the use by course; or as something that runs from the NPL-Update script?
- Ability to tell, from the library browser, which problems have solutions or hints.
Missing Functionality
- Keyword tagging is very uneven. Can this be improved?
- Would a full text search be useful? Possible?
- Ability to restrict the text editions that are displayed in the library browser---either by having the WeBWorK administrator check the texts that would be displayed, or by grandfathering out of existence some of the older texts
Redundancy
There are a lot of problems that are very similar. How can we address issue?
- Group problems by cohort, so that one of the problems is displayed, and the rest of the cohort could be displayed on request.
