Towards an Analytical Framework to Enhance Teaching Support in Digital Systems Design Course

Learning digital systems design is a difficult skill that students of Bachelors on Computer Science, Electronic Engineering or Telecommunications have to acquire in the initial courses. The problem aggravates when the student is learning in a virtual environment with no face-to-face interaction with the instructor. In this case, simulators or intelligent tutoring systems, such as VerilUOC [1], are used in order to acquire this skill. This paper describes several improvements introduced in the instructor view of this framework VerilUOC. The new information that can be extracted of the system can improve the personalized feedback that the instructor can perform to the students, and, at the same time, the real-time information gives insights related to the course's operation.