Toolbox (software)
ToolboX is an integrated development environment designed to introduce computer programming in academic subjects with originally no competences in this matter. Its design is based on the premise that, when solving a problem, a student performs a sequence of computations (i.e., proceeds in an algorithmic way), that can be expressed in a computer language, similarly to how it is done on a notebook or blackboard.
| Developer(s) | Francisco Vico at University of Málaga |
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| Initial release | 2016 |
| Written in | GNU Octave |
| Operating system | Ubuntu, Stretch, Raspbian, Lubuntu, Guadalinex |
| Type | Educational software |
| License | GNU General Public License v3 |
| Website | ToolboX official site |
Besides the environment and the academic contents, ToolboX compiles students' usage data and process it by means of big data algorithms based on artificial intelligence (just in the Andalusian region, a million students have access to this tool, after being integrated in the Guadalinex and Guadalinfo repositories). These techniques perform knowledge acquisition about the students community, that can be used afterwards to improve teaching and resource planning. As examples of this knowledge, gifted students, ADHD and dyslexia can be prediagnosed.