pf-online-compiler-workshop
About the workshop
- A three-hour, in-person tutorial workshop at the SIGCSE TS 2025 Conference
- In Pittsburgh, United States
- Held on Wednesday, February 26, 2025
Learning objectives
- Learn to use Process Feedback’s online compiler and explore its key features
- Practice integrating Process Feedback into your CS1 classroom
- Study reflection assignments and discuss them during the workshop
- Analyze sample student reports, explore strategies for providing process feedback, and discuss best practices
Learn to use the online compiler - Session 1
| ⌚ | ⏳ | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 7:00 PM | 15 min | 💬 Introductions (facilitators and participants) |
| “Your name, affiliation, and one sentence about yourself” | ||
| 7:15 PM | 5 min | ℹ Overview: What is Process Feedback? |
| 5 min | ℹ Key features of the online compiler | |
| 7:25 PM | 5 min | 🖥️ Live demo of the online compiler |
| 5 min | 🖥️ A student’s coding process report sample | |
| 7:35 PM | 10 min | ✍️ Hands-on coding practice using the online compiler |
| 7:45 PM | 5 min | 🖥️ Live demo of the Google Docs extension |
| 7:50 PM | 10 min | 💬 Q&A and peer discussions |
| 🤸 Stand up and stretch |
Learn to integrate Process Feedback into your course - Session 2
| ⌚ | ⏳ | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00 PM | 10 min | 📖 Read the Teacher Guide |
| 5 min | 💬 Discuss the easiest option (Option 1 in the Teacher Guide) | |
| 8:15 PM | 10 min | 🖥️ Live demo: Creating a Course |
| 🖥️ Live demo: Creating an Assignment | ||
| 8:25 PM | 15 min | ✍️ Hands-on practice: Creating a course and an assignment |
| 8:40 PM | 10 min | 📖 Read the Reflection Assignments |
| 8:50 PM | 10 min | 💬 Discuss reflection assignments and additional ideas |
| 🤸 Stand up and stretch |
Learn to offer process feedback to students - Session 3
| ⌚ | ⏳ | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 PM | 5 min | ℹ “What applications do you see of Process Feedback, for everyday use and action research?” |
| 5 min | 💬 Discuss and exchange ideas | |
| 9:10 PM | 10 min | ℹ Sample student coding process reports |
| 📖 Report #1 | Report #2 | Report #3 | Report #4 | ||
| (with permissions from students + anonymized) | ||
| 9:20 PM | 20 min | 💬 Group discussions (three to four participants) |
| ℹ “What feedback would you offer to the student(s)?” | ||
| ℹ Bonus prompt 😊: “Can generative AI help with this?” | ||
| 9:40 PM | 5 min | ✍️ Submit feedback |
| 9:45 PM | 15 min | 💬 Peer discussions, research, collaboration ideas |
Related publications
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“Teaching coding in the age of AI: A hands-on tutorial on Process Feedback”
📔 SIGCSETS, 2025 | 👤 Badri Adhikari and Jie Hou | Read Online -
“Coding process visualizations for improved learning and academic integrity in CS1”
📔 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing, CSCE 2024 | 👤 Badri Adhikari and Nirala Lamichhane | Read PDF -
“Maximizing student engagement in coding education with explanatory AI”
📔 IEEE FIE 2024 | 👤 Badri Adhikari, Sameep Dhakal, and Aadya Jha | Read PDF -
“Engaging students to learn coding in the AI era with emphasis on the process”
📔 Edukasiana: Jurnal Inovasi Pendidikan, 2023 | 👤 Kate Arendes, Shea Kerkhoff, and Badri Adhikari | Read Online -
“Pensieve: Feedback on coding process for novices.”
📔 Proceedings of the 50th acm technical symposium on computer science education, 2019 | 👤 Lisa Yan, Annie Hu, and Chris Piech | Read Online -
“Computational thinking”
📔 Communications of the ACM, 2006 | 👤 Jeannette M. Wing | Read Online -
“Thinking beyond chatbots’ threat to education: Visualizations to elucidate the writing or coding process”
📔 Education Sciences, 2023 | 👤 Badri Adhikari | Read Online
Acknowledgements
We are thankful to the Process Feedback contributors for releasing some of the features early so we could test them.
- Chirayu Prasai, Tribhuvan University
- Utsab Neupane, Tribhuvan University
- Nitesh Kafle, University of Niagara Falls Canada
- Arpan Paudel, Tribhuvan University
- Rohan Shrestha, Tribhuvan University
- Subodh Dahal, Mid West University
Facilitators
Dr. Badri Adhikari
University of Missouri-St. Louis
Dr. Jie Hou
Saint Louis University