Increasing the consistency of feedback on programming code by using a tagging system

Programming knowledge is a skill which has gotten more important and widely used over the years. So teaching this in the best and most efficient way is also becoming increasingly more relevant. Since giving feedback is an influential part of this process it is important that concise and consistent feedback is given. The Atelier tool is created to easily give feedback on code in a social media like style. For this research it is extended with a tagging functionality. A focus session is conducted to look into tagging behaviour on programming code by TA’s. In addition to this a usage test was also performed to test the tag implementation. At the end of the paper recommendation for future research will be made.