JISC

Links

ASAP CETIS Development Page 

Distributed eLearning - eTools Page 

Software Description

The principle outcome of the project is a set of application services, made available to the UK higher education community, to automate key components of assessment in the teaching of computer programming languages. These include:

• Automatic unit-testing of student code, with associated feedback
• Automated generation of objective questions to test learning outcomes
• Plagiarism detection and reporting software

The software is split into application services and user agents, to allow interoperable deployment in learning management systems. 

Aims and Objectives

The aim of the project is to develop, integrate and evaluate eLearning tools to support teaching, learning and assessment of computer programming languages. The specific objectives are:

• The publication of appropriate standards for the incorporation of unit tests in the educational sector
• The publication of tools for authoring and using unit tests, that can be employed in conjunction with a variety of VLEs (Virtual Learning Environments)
• Interfaces for relevant third-party software, including the Roboprof and JPlag initiatives.