Computer Based Teaching and Testing

Computers have been used at CUED in teaching for at least 20 years. Since 1984 we have produced computer-based teaching material in-house. The Department's involvement in the innovative Interact Project has led to the production of some highly successful interactive computing packages. For the most part we have concentrated on simulations of engineering systems. The programs we use are

• Bought - e.g. Metacard.
• Produced by teaching staff - e.g. planes.
• Produced by computer officers - e.g. SoftSpec. We also provide numerous front-ends and utilities to make existing packages easier to use, and adapt free source code.
• Produced as the result of student projects - e.g. qsim.
• Produced by research projects - the Interact project (TLTP funded) was based here). One example is Airfoil.

In addition the Language Unit make use of software maintained by us to evaluate the foreign language skills of students.