Collaborative working with Git as a digital examination concept

Duration: 1.5.2022 - 30.4.2023

The project is part of the examING - Digitalization of competence-oriented testing for engineering bachelor's degree courses project funded by the Innovation in Higher Education Foundation and tests the use of the version management software Git to support examinations.

Motivation

The starting point are courses in which programming skills are taught and the examination is carried out as part of a project group. In the examination context, the following difficulties arise in particular:

  • The performance of the individual cannot be clearly separated from the performance of the team, which makes individual grading difficult.
  • When looking at the result of the project group, the development history of the software project remains invisible, which prevents the assessment of the structuring of the software project and the interaction of the team members.

Such a scenario exists, for example, in the course Microcontroller and Signal Processor Technology 1, in which the examination concept is tested.

 

Git as a collaboration tool

The software version management system Git has become widespread and is used in many software projects for collaboration. Among other things, it offers

  • documentation of the project process,
  • assignment of source code changes to contributors and
  • support for creating and merging branches of work.

As part of the target event, participants are introduced to the use of the software and it is used for all software projects.

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Git as an audit tool

The examination is carried out within the framework of a task that is worked on jointly by a team. This allows the structuring of the work to be addressed in the oral examination discussion and it is possible to discuss individual steps in the development with the author.

Public visibility

Juli 8, 2025: article in UniOnline: Competence-oriented digital teaching, learning and testing: "Lessons learned" in the examING project

June 6, 2025: final conference of the examING project

February 8, 2024: Contribution to the Teaching Day "Examination scenarios with Git"

July 1, 2023: Contribution to the Ilmenau Science Night "Live teaching event: microcontroller programming as a team project"

November 18, 2022: Panel contribution at the annual conference of the eTeach network Thuringia eTeach annual conference 2022

May 24, 2022: public kick-off event of the examING project