Assignment Tracking on Android Platform

Abstract

Student assessment in terms of ‘assignment tracking’ is essentially needed in order to understand students’ cognition level in a learning process. Students are asked to write programs to solve problems, and then, those are evaluated. The traditional offline method of this formative assessment by pen-and-paper mode is time-consuming and tedious. There are many online assessment methodologies too. Android OS-based smartphones becoming so popular are being effectively used in the domain of education. Online formative assessment process for Java programming on android platform is proposed in this paper. The ‘Assignment Tracker’ application is developed and designed using official IDE, Android Studio 3.1. Android OS supports the Dalvik bytecode instead of traditional JVM. So, a client–server architecture is proposed. The students on client side can execute Java programming on their android mobiles and request the server for compiling and execution. A third-party Web server is utilized to build up the connection between client and server. On implementation, the overall system proves fruitful and effective as an advanced formative assessment technique.