Ceilidh on the World Wide Web

Ceilidh has been replaced in 1998 by LTR's newest courseware system CourseMarker. CourseMarker continues in the footsteps of Ceilidh.

The Ceilidh system (developed by the Learning Technology Research group at Nottingham) is designed for the automatic assessment of student work on computer-related courses, and for the feedback of helpful information to students and staff. Ceilidh normally runs on a network of UNIX machines.

You may browse freely through any courses on the system, looking at notes and exercises. If you are already a registered user, you may proceed directly to the student facilities page, and you will be able to submit exercises from within the course.

If you are not already registered, and wish to be able to submit exercises, you may go to the registration page.

If Ceilidh is installed on a machine that you can log directly into, it is more efficient to use the Ceilidh system directly through one of its several interfaces.

The WWW access mechanism to Ceilidh is a joint development between the Computer Science Department at the University of Nottingham (UK), and the Mathematics and Science Centre at Ngee Ann Polytechnic (Singapore). See the Ceilidh system message of the day for urgent notices.

There is a vast amount of documentation on Ceilidh available over the WWW. Use this form to search for a particular keyword in the documents.

The development of Ceilidh has been supported by the Teaching and Learning Technology Programme of the Higher Education Funding Council for England, and by the University of Nottingham UK. Among other universities contributing to the system and the courses running under it were Heriot-Watt University (Standard ML course, evaluation), Royal Holloway University (Pascal course, X-windows interface), Sheffield Hallam University (X-windows interface), Liverpool University (SQL course), Ngee Ann Polytechnic Singapore (WWW interface), Manchester Metropolitan University (hypertext system) and Lancaster University (early stand-alone PC version).

For more details of the Ceilidh system, contact Eric Foxley (E-mail ltr@cs.nott.ac.uk) at the main Ceilidh site which is based in the Computer Science Department at the University of Nottingham in the UK.