UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE
             COMPUTER SCIENCE RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM

                            presents

              "The Moodle CodeRunner question type"

                        Dr. Richard Lobb 
            (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)

                    19 April 2017 (Wednesday)
                          1 pm - 2 pm

                  Hatfield, College Lane Campus
                       Seminar Room D102

                  Everyone is Welcome to Attend

                  Refreshments will be available

Abstract:

  CodeRunner is a Moodle question type plug-in that allows teachers to
ask quiz questions that can be graded by running a test program. By
far the most common application, and the one for which CodeRunner was
originally designed, is in programming courses, where the student's
answer is program code to some specification. The code can then be
graded by directly executing it to see if it satisfies a given set of
tests. However, CodeRunner has also been used in other types of question
where there is no single right answer and a program must be used to verify
correctness. Python, C, Java, JavaScript, Octave and Matlab  are built in,
but CodeRunner is easily extended to handle other languages. Teachers
can design their own question types ("write a function", "write
a class", "write a program" etc) and enforce constraints such as
requiring comments, limiting the number of lines of code and prescribing
or proscribing certain programming constructs.

  This talk will describe the evolution and architecture of CodeRunner,
demonstrate the sort of questions that can be asked and explain how
CodeRunner questions have dramatically altered the teaching of a range
of undergraduate courses in Computer Science, Mathematics and Engineering
at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

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