Both student and course assessment are important issues. The difficulties of evaluating any CBL material was briefly discussed but no conclusions were reached. It has been argued that course assessment is particularly worthwhile if the approach is qualitative and if it addresses all dimensions of the learning experience. An important question that has been raised is the morality of method comparison, i.e. one should not teach a control group when convinced that one method is worse than an other. Student evaluation over the Internet is problematic.
Authentication is one of the problems of course.
An other one concerns the limited automated evaluation technology available. E.g. multiple choice forms can't be used to test a very large bandwidth of competencies. It was stressed that it was important to evaluate the whole of the students experience for the logging on and registration through to the award of credit. It provides a chance for better education. Truly interactive educational content is sparsely found so far.