ProgEdu - an automatic assessment platform for programming courses

Assigning programming homework for programming courses is a significant learning activity used to improve students' programming ability. However, it is more challenging for instructors and TAs to assess the contents of programs written by students. For instance, they do not know the histories of program writings; they have to review source code manually; and even they cannot obtain statistic information about the turn-in status of assignments in real time. To address these issues, in this paper, we present an automated assessment platform, called ProgEdu, providing users with the features, including student management, assignment management and visual analysis dashboard. With the help of this platform, instructors and TAs can reduce their loads on assessing assignments, understand the learning status of students and get real-time information regarding the states of programs submitted by students. With respect to students, this platform can facilitate them to check whether their submissions meet assignment requirements immediately after they submit code.