1.5. Related Systems

Widely used web based and commercial system that provide functionality comparable to the CS Tutoring Tool include :

Each of these systems provides a wide variety of tutorial authoring, control flow, view, testing, and progress tracking functionality. In terms of such functionality, the goal for the CS Tutoring Tool is to provide the important core features found in these tools, not the full range of features found in all of them. The CS Tutoring Tool does provide modest functional improvements in most of these areas, when compared to most commercially available tools. These improvements are:

  1. support for multiple classes and authors of tutorials;
  2. added ability for the author to track and see student progress of the tutorials;
  3. simple text and graphic making abilities;
  4. the ability to branch the tutorial based off of a students quiz score;
  5. a visible, easy to navigate layout.

The goals for the CS Tutoring Tool relating to public domain source code and sound pedagogical development are not met by any of the above commercial systems.

A detailed review of each related tool follows in these subsections:

Following these reviews, a summary of the features is provided in a feature comparison matrix.





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