Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, distance teaching became default in higher education, urging teachers and researchers to revise course materials into an accessible online content for a diverse audience. Probably one of the hardest challenges came with online assessments of course performance, for example by organizing online written exams. In this teaching-related project paper we survey the setting we organized for our master’s level course “Automated Deduction” in logic and computation at TU Wien. The algorithmic and rigorous reasoning developed within our course called for individual exam sheets focused on problem solving and deductive proofs; as such exam sheets using test grids were not a viable solution for written exams within our course. We believe the toolchain of automated reasoning tools we have developed for holding online written exams could be beneficial not only for other distance learning platforms, but also to researchers in automated reasoning, by providing our community with a large set of randomly generated benchmarks in SAT/SMT solving and first-order theorem proving.
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Project title:
Symbolic Computation and Automated Reasoning for Program Analysis: 639270 (European Commission) Automated Reasoning with Theories and Induction for Software Technologies: ERC Consolidator Grant 2020 (European Commission)
