Athena


Scalable, AI-powered feedback and assessment

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Athena is a research project focused on improving assessment and feedback processes in higher education, particularly in large-scale courses. By integrating with existing Learning Management Systems (LMS), Athena enables the (semi-)automated evaluation of student work, reducing manual grading effort while maintaining quality and consistency.

The system supports a range of exercise types—including programming tasks, modeling exercises, and textual submissions—and generates formative and summative feedback using a combination of traditional AI techniques and modern large language models (LLMs), depending on the specific assessment approach employed. Its modular architecture allows for flexible integration of new feedback strategies and exercise formats, making it adaptable to evolving educational needs and extensible to additional domains in the future.

Athena is actively used in real teaching settings in conjunction with the open-source learning platform Artemis and continues to evolve through user-centered design and empirical research. More information about the project, including publications and technical documentation, can be found on our GitHub repository.