Making UML “hip”: A First Experience Report on Using Modern Teaching Tools for Object-Oriented Modelling

Abstract. We steadily aim at improving our first year’s university course Introduction to Object-Oriented Modelling. To that end we explore how technological teaching support may be used to extend the classical class-room experience for the students. For several years, we used Web-based out-of-the-box e-learning tools for providing additional teaching support. This solution works well, but has some severe restrictions. In this paper