An effective method to formulate electric power system problems for online assessments

On-line teaching and distance education have become the main trend for universities in the last few years. Many difficulties still hamper fully teaching some electrical engineering course on-line such as question formulations, design, students' evaluation and reliability of assessments. This paper introduces an effective way of formulating some electric power systems course questions for creating on-line quizzes using Blackboard Learning System (BLS) in order to benefit from the advantages of on-line teaching while providing a suitable method for fairly evaluating the students. Different question types available in the assessment link in BLS such as multiple choice and calculated question, are used in this study to formulate some Electric Power Systems (EPS) problems. The advantages and disadvantages are discussed from both students and instructor point of view while the students' performance results are analyzed.