Case Study: San José State University helps students practice programming at scale with Google for Education

San Jose State University boosts programming scores by 50% with Google for Education

San José State University's Computer Science Department faced a challenge with limited server capacity, hindering its ability to provide unlimited, cheat-resistant programming exercises for its students. To address this, the university partnered with Google for Education through its Google Cloud Education Grants program to secure credits for developing a scalable solution.

Using Google Cloud products like Compute Engine, Stackdriver, and Cloud SQL, Professor Cay Horstmann built CodeCheck, an autograder that provides real-time feedback on coding exercises. The solution from Google for Education delivered significant results: one student section scored 50% higher on tests, another scored 20% higher, and students in a C++ course cut their average problem completion time in half while reducing their number of attempts by a third.

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