Learning management system as a tool for online knowledge evaluation in an engineering course during the COVID-19 pandemic

Disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2019/20 academic year brought an unplanned shift to education online. While teaching itself became more challenging, the main disruption was in testing, where not being in the same room with students whose knowledge was being evaluated posed serious challenges. This paper discusses the approach taken by the lecturers of the course “Fundamentals of electrical engineering” in professional study of electrical engineering at the Zagreb University of Applied Sciences. The paper examines the important role of a properly set up Learning management system for knowledge evaluation and compares the unproctored online approach to the typical proctored exam.