The BOSS online submission and assessment system

ACM Journal on Educational Resources in Computing

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2005, Pages

  Mike, J O Y ^a,b   Griffiths, Nathan ^a,b   Boyatt, Russell ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Automated assessment; Online submission; Programming languages

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED ASSESSMENT; ONLINE SUBMISSION;

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; CONSTRAINT THEORY; FEEDBACK; INTERFACES (COMPUTER);

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 33749368195     PISSN: 15314278     EISSN: 15314278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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