Students enrolled in this course can choose between two options to be assessed: 1) evaluation based on a continuous assessment of their works in practical sessions and on the development of a final project; and 2) evaluation based on the mark of two traditional final exams at the end of the course (one exam is a hands on session with the computer and the other consists of a series of development questions). If the student chooses the continuous assessment, we consider four categories in our methodology:
- Evaluation of documents and multimedia material produced in the practice sessions of the course (30% of the final mark).
- Assessment based on other collaborative activities where the student participates in and based on the use of the BSCW platform: how he or she uses the tools for annotating materials, how many times he or she participates in the discussion forums, how many documents of other groups he or she evaluates, etc. (20% of final grade).
- Individual assessment based on the results of four tests about the topics dealt along the course (20% of final grade).
- Evaluation of collaborative working projects developed in his/her group(30% of final mark).
Estimating a final mark for each student that chooses the evaluation based on a continuous assessment is very hard due to the high number of students who often participate in the course and it would not have been possible if we had not had the tools provided by BSCW.
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