Assessing the impact of alternative evaluation procedures associated to confinement in the context of a Computer Engineering course

The sudden changes to the teaching/learning methodology derived from the COVID-19 outbreak has forced instructors to quickly adapt their standard courses to online teaching procedures in record time. As expected, though, such changes were not without their drawbacks. In this paper, we provide a study made regarding the effectiveness of the alternative evaluation procedures adopted for a specific networking course in the degree on Informatics at the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) in Spain. Results show that the online evaluation methods adopted cannot correctly mimic the face-to-face approaches, and lead to a consistent bias of results generating excessively high scores. Such deficiencies in the process are partially endorsed by students' opinions as well.