NPLNotes

Notes on the NPL: What it has, What it needs

The NPL was created by Jeff Holt, John Jones and Bill Ziemer.

By default, we see a page with subject, chapter, section.

Should there be a "new" NPL that we should consider? Either peer reviewed, or with reduced redundancy, etc.?

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; or which problems use MathObjects; or which are graphical.
"Parent" or "child" data: this problem is an edit of that, etc.

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
Peer review. Should there be a peer reviewed NPL?
Support for problems in different languages---Spanish, etc.
Search for problems using graphics, etc.
Support for boolean operators in the search: and, or,...
Support for variation in units in a problem (feet, meters, etc.)

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.