Mooney, Aidan and Hegarty Kelly, Emlyn
(2018)
Graphical enhancements of the Virtual Programming Lab.
In: 4th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd’18), 20-22 June 2018, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Valencia.
Abstract
It is generally recognised that providing consistent, meaningful written
feedback is not an easy task, especially when dealing with large classes.
Feedback does needs to be effective, meaning it has to be appropriate and
timely and needs to be individual, where possible. Automated feedback within
Computer Science has been around since the 1960’s with the main goals in
relation to computer programming being to implement an automatic
assessment tool to provide consistent feedback and to alleviate examiners'
workloads. The Virtual Programming Lab, a plugin for the Virtual Learning
Environment Moodle, is one such tool that allows for Automated Feedback
on computer code.
This paper presents enhancements to the Virtual Programming that have
been developed to make interacting with the tool more user-friendly and
provide more graphical feedback to teachers. The enhancements developed
provide in-depth graphical feedback on assessment grades within a class and
also teacher focused graphical views which provide more in-depth analysis
of assessment submissions. Discussed feedback shows that the enhancements
developed were all positively received with feedback highlighting the benefits
of each.
| Item Type: |
Conference or Workshop Item
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| Additional Information: |
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Cite as: Mooney, A.; Hegart Kelly, E. (2018). Graphical enhancements of the Virtual Programming Lab. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. 645-653. doi:10.4995/HEAD18.2018.8054 |
| Keywords: |
Automated Assessment; Virtual Programming Lab; Timely Feedback; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Science and Engineering > Computer Science |
| Item ID: |
10317 |
| Depositing User: |
Aidan Mooney
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| Date Deposited: |
12 Dec 2018 16:51 |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
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