Group assessment: alternative forms to evaluate student skills

This paper presents a proposal for an environment designed to assess students knowledge in an Information Systems class. The environment was based on the university local LAN infrastructure and in the fact that almost all the students have their own laptop computer In order to innovate the conventional exam, it was implemented a challenge to groups of three students. In each group, one member must be in the classroom, where normal examination took place, another at a social location where he can interact with others in a free form and the last one, at the library, where he can use local resources to answer the questions.