A Java Program for Automatic Team Allocation in Project-Based Coursework

摘要

Universities around the world require project-based subjects and effective team allocation. Team allocation is a very time-consuming task in complex project-based coursework subjects. This gives rise to the need of automated team allocation software, which can help the subject coordinator quickly allocate students into optimal or sub-optimal teams based on a set of predetermined criteria. This paper details our team allocation software, which was developed in Java in 2012 for the project-based engineering projects and was actually implemented in two annual project-based subjects in the University of Wollongong in the years 2013 through 2017. The actual use of our developed team allocation software shows that this software is able to find, in a very short time, the solutions highly compliant to the team allocation criteria selected using a simple algorithm. Our developed software reduces significantly the time required to form student teams, compared to manual allocations.