Research Field: Education Technologies

The communication with the external systems (Bamboo, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Gitlab) in Artemis can be further improved. Artemis should store the console log of failed builds in the database and not always fetch it from the CI system. It should be possible to sync all build plans of an exercise in case the template build plan is changed. Tutors should be able to download the student repository including the tests to simplify the local setup.

With its VCS and CI architecture, Artemis supports any programming language for programming exercises. Currently, it includes templates for many popular languages, however templates for a couple of languages is still missing. In this thesis, new templates for programming exercises will be developed and tested with the Bitbucket/Bamboo and Gitlab/Jenkins. In addition, static code analysis should be integrated into more programming exercise templates.

Discussions on Artemis are already context-sensitive in Artemis, however their functionality is still limited. In this thesis, the features would be enhanced based on new functionality. Users should be able to link Artemis content (e.g. videos scenes, exercise tasks, specific lecture slides) in questions. There should be dedicated channels for tutor groups and internal communication (e.g. between instructors and tutors). In addition, the mechanism to prevent post duplication should be enhanced and the search for posts within a course should be improved.

Programming exercises in Artemis can be realized with Bitbucket and Bamboo or with Gitlab and Jenkins. Currently, the integration with Gitlab and Jenkins is limited and does not offer all functionality. In this thesis, the missing features would be implemented. In addition, the concept of build agents and dockerized builds should be realized within Jenkins.

There is already an IntelliJ plugin for Artemis called Orion https://github.com/ls1intum/Orion, it would also be interesting to develop an Eclipse plugin with the same feature set.

Orion already works for students to participate in programming exercises and for instructors to setup programming exercises, but not yet for the code review of programming exercises by tutors. Inline hints, the support for team based exercises and automatic conflict resolution would be other possible enhancements.

Many exercises include multiple tasks that depend on each other. Then it is impossible, difficult and/or demotivating for students to continue with the 2nd or 3rd task if they were not able to solve the 1st task. It is also misleading if the 1st task is finished and the student gets the feedback that e.g. 8 out of 12 test cases still fail. In this thesis, you will extend Artemis so that student can receive automatic help in form of live tutorials for exercise parts that they don’t understand or cannot solve.

Apllon is an online modeling editor written in React. It offers an easy to use and lightweight experience to learn UML and other notations in an interactive environment. It runs as standalone version on https://apollon.ase.in.tum.de offering a collaborative modeling experience without accounts. It is also integrated into Artemis to enable modeling exercises. Students create models, tutors assess those models and provide feedback which students can then see in order to improve their modeling skills.

Automatic Test Environment Deployment and Continuous Security Analysis for Learning Platforms

Code quality assurance using E2E tests

In this thesis, the learning analytics should be enhanced in Artemis to provide learning paths for students. It should be possible for instructors to define dependencies (prerequisite, consists of, duplicate) between learning goals. This information should be used to build individual paths based on the existing experiences of students and will provide first steps into adaptive learning.

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