Students obtain computer based feedback on all attempted solutions of problems that are not assessed. Students also have access to tutor input and support during lab sessions and online via a messaging system. In this way students also have access to peers for discussion of problem solutions.
Students also have access to the computer lab at other times whenever it is open.
Deadlines and timetabled sessions are staggered for the group so as to avoid peaks and lows of lab usage and tutor assessment time. As a result of student demand the tutorial system is now also available on the Web, allowing students to work through problems at home. Poor attendance at tutorials and students having trouble visualising certain dynamic concepts. The attempt to deal with the problem of visualisation by developing a computer simulation of different dynamic concepts was not successful as an independent learning aid, but useful in lectures where there was an expert available to contextualise the problems. The handbook developed to support the computer simulation was used by the students rather than the computer itself.