A project that creates an online assessment for students - it emphasises 'learning by doing'

The Verkkoke project was created to develop an online learning environment for the Computer Networks course in the Helsinki University of Technology. This system creates and sends individual assignments for students, accepts solution submissions via the Internet, and, finally, checks them automatically.

At Helsinki University of Technology, in Telecommunications Software and Multimedia Laboratory we give a course titled "Computer Networks". One of the learning objectives of the course is network programming and routing. Our philosophy of teaching is "learning by doing", which means in practice that one of the requirements for passing the course is a programming assignment. The programming assignment introduces the student to socket programming and gives the student the possibility to practice implementing simplified routing protocols.

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On this website

You can find all publications and information about the project on this site.

If you attended The Eleventh Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education in Bologna, Italy and wanted to find out how to download the program when its completed, please click here.

Steps on how this program can work for your students are outlined in the Project Overview.

User Guidelines will be made available online on the downloads page.