Case Study: University of Agder achieves a unified student development platform with Coder

University of Agder pilots live coding exams for 40 students with Coder

The University of Agder, a public university in Norway, faced a challenge with its fragmented development environments for its 14,000 students. Its small IT team was maintaining disconnected systems including SSH access and JupyterHub, which lacked a unified interface and a native way to allocate resources by course. This also prevented the university from providing dependable development tools during digital exams. They turned to Coder Enterprise to consolidate these environments.

By implementing Coder Enterprise, the university unified its teaching, research, and exam environments into a single interface. This allowed for group-based template assignment and built-in compute allocation. The results included successfully piloting a live exam for 40 students, retiring the JupyterHub deployment to reduce maintenance, and lessening reliance on physical computer labs. Coder provided a scalable and secure platform that simplified the process for students and researchers.

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