Rising Student-to-Teacher Ratios a Top Concern for Educators
76% of respondents to our 2019 Survey of Computer Science Education said they were interested in "time savings" from technology—a trend probably fueled by course administration challenges. Respondents were asked to tank increasing student-to-teacher ratios, mandatory LMS usage (Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle), and inappropriate classroom/lab space. 56% ranked increasing student-to-teacher ra...
Grading and Student Feedback Challenges for CS Instructors
Providing students with timely, constructive feedback is an increasing challenge for today's CS educators. There are many challenges around grading: inadequate GA/TA resources, providing timely feedback to students, and notably in CS, the incompatibility of a student’s development environment and the grading environment (resulting in the dreaded “but it worked on my machine!”). Codio rec...
Low Student Engagement, Manual Grading Pose Key Challenges for CS Instructors
Even today, Computer Science Education is a relatively new and rapidly evolving field. To build a responsive product, Codio keeps up with Computing Education Research (CER) and Computer Science teaching practices by regularly reviewing research articles, news, and trends, as well as conducting our own research. Over the past several months, we surveyed dozens of Higher Ed CS instructors ...
Codio Launches “Global Assessments Library” of Editable, Auto-Graded Assessment Questions
Codio’s Global Assessments Library is live for all users! Our Global Assessments Library contains auto-graded assessment questions covering a wide range of topics, difficulty levels, and assessment types—and it’s available for all instructors to make use of. The library is populated with hundreds of assessments, and we’re always adding more. Currently, assessments are available in: Jav...
