Automatic evaluation of practices in moodle for self learning in engineering

Abstract

The frst years in engineering degree courses are usually made of large groups with a low teacher-student rato. Overcrowding in classrooms hinders contnuous assessment much needed to promote independent learning. Therefore, there is a need to apply some kind of automatc evaluaton to facilitate the correcton of exercises outside the classroom. We introduce here a frst experience using surveys in Moodle 2.0 in order to get an automatc evaluaton of practces in our Database course. We report survey valuaton of the autonomous learning tool and preliminary statstcs assessing correlaton to an improvement in the practce exam marks.