Workshop co-located with MODELS 2024
Many academic modelling tools have accumulated significant technical debt and lack of the nowadays quality standards. Following on from the success of the 1st working session on a common architecture/infrastructure for modelling tools for teaching, held at MODELS’23, which produced a comprehensive catalogue of requirements for modelling tools for teaching to be published in SoSyM, we propose a 2nd working session to focus on designs and implementations delivering on these requirements. The session will have a short programme of presentations, but will prioritise discussion and consensus-forming to work towards community-owned assets as the foundations for modelling tools for teaching.
The workshop takes place Monday, September 23rd in room WS - Asteroids. Anyone interested in contributing to the discussions is invited to attend. While it is not mandatory, it would be appreciated that you let us know if you are planning to attend the workshop by sending an email to modellingtoolsforteaching@kcl.ac.uk.
This session will focus on: modelling language plug-ins (textual / graphical editors, consistency rules, analysers, code generators / interpreters, etc…); adapting / constraining a modeling language to a specific need; managing consistency between models expressed in different languages; generic support for navigating models.
This session will focus on support for offline collaboration; workspaces / access control for model repositories, access control for model elements within a model; mechanism to comment on / “approve” changes made by someone else; support for online collaboration, focusing on teaching-related requirements; support for reviewing / commenting.
This session will focus on generic ways of encoding feedback for models / modelling activities; generic ways of displaying feedback on models in a GUI; display several models at the same time to highlight correspondences and differences; integration with existing grading platforms.
Jörg Kienzle 
Steffen Zschaler If you have any questions, please contact us by email at: modellingtoolsforteaching@kcl.ac.uk