This paper presents an effort to incorporate assessment of manually assessed aspects in an automated code assessment process. Fully automated code assessment has its drawbacks which makes manual assessment of some aspects of student solutions a necessity. In most situations during the assessment of code written by students the most appropriate approach would thus be splitting the process in two phases -automatic plus manual. This might result in two completely distinct procedures for each of the phases. The solution proposed in this paper tries to join these procedures into one uniform process keeping the benefits from each.

This paper discusses Svetovid, cross-platform software that helps instructors to assess the amount of effort put into practical exercises and exams in courses related to computer programming. The software was developed as an attempt at solving problems associated with practical exercises and exams. This paper discusses the design and use of Svetovid system along with the advantages it brings to both students and instructors. IntroductionBefore the practical assessment was introduced in programming courses, students of informatics from our department were assessed based on their solutions written on paper. This resulted in two major problems. Students had to write programs without access to a computer and a possibility to check them; the allowed time was 3 hours. Instructors then evaluated each program by perusing the listings, looking for obvious errors and trying to comprehend the usually very specific and clumsy solutions. This was tedious work for both the students and the instructors, and efficient only for small assignments.