Suleman, Hussein (2008) Automatic Marking with Sakai, Proceedings of Annual Conference of South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists (SAICSIT), 6-8 October 2008, Wilderness Beach Hotel, Wilderness, South Africa.
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Abstract
Large student numbers often drive teaching staff to consider greater degrees of automation of assessment activities. In introductory Computer Science classes - where submitted programs need to repeatedly be compiled, executed and tested - automation is an obvious route to investigate. This paper reports on an experimental automation system for assessing programming assignments, and its integration with the open source Sakai learning management system. While the system has been an administrative success, feedback from students has identified numerous areas for improvement at the interface of the student and the automatic marker. Furthermore, the use of automation has highlighted the need for teaching software development methodology from an early stage.
| Item Type: | Conference paper |
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| Subjects: | Social and professional topics > Professional topics > Computing education Applied computing > Document management and text processing |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Aug 2008 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Oct 2019 15:34 |
| URI: | http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/id/eprint/465 |
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