CAS Conference 2025: Introduction to Dodona, an online platform for learning to code

Dodona is an innovative online platform empowering students to learn textual coding interactively by writing code and receiving automated, meaningful feedback. Dodona acts as an online co-teacher, designed to give every student access to high quality education. The platform is already trusted by 2,000 schools and 90,000 students who have submitted +20 million solutions for coding exercises to date. As a student you can simply subscribe to a course, select an exercise, hand in and get detailed automated feedback within a matter of seconds. Teachers can create their own course, composed of different series of exercises. They can use existing courses and exercises, but can also create their own exercises and learning materials. Thanks to the built-in learning analytics and data visualisations it is also easy to monitor the progress of students and adapt instruction accordingly. The platform also includes a full testing and exam environment. If you are interested to learn more about how Dodona works or are eager to try it out as a teacher, this workshop is for you. We’ll give you a tour of the platform and get you all set-up to start using Dodona in your classroom.

 - Matthias De Witte, Dodona