An Internet Approach for Engineering Student Exercises

TL;DR

This paper presents an internet-based system for engineering student exercises that provides personalized problems, immediate feedback, and logs student performance for courses like security and cryptography.

Contribution

It introduces a novel internet approach enabling dynamic, personalized exercises with real-time feedback and comprehensive logging for engineering education.

Findings

Effective student engagement through immediate feedback

Personalized exercises with different data for each student

Log files facilitate instructor review and assessment

Abstract

An approach for engineering student exercises using the Internet is described. In this approach, for a given exercise, each student receives the same problem, but with different data. The exercise content can be static or dynamic, and the dynamic form can be timeless or real-time. The implementation provides immediate feedback to the students, letting them know if their submitted answers are correct. Student results for each exercise are recorded in log files which are available to the instructor. Example exercises from engineering computer security and cryptography courses are presented.