![]() All the answers of the 11 students who answered the course evaluation form were submitted to the IRAMUTEQ software in the content analysis. The students used the game applications Chemical Nomenclature (CN) and Acids & Bases responded to forms in Microsoft Forms and used Socrative and Trello platforms to create, organize, and track project tasks. The study had the participation of 15 students from the last semesters of the Pharmacy program, enrolled in the Experimental Chemistry course, offered in the 1st semester of 2021. In this context, the main objective of this study was to evaluate the use of Socrative and Trello, Office 365 (O365) platform technologies, in the online Experimental Chemistry course, by students of the Pharmacy program. ![]() On the other hand, the University required from each teacher to plan remote classes in logical and instructive sequence for students to participate in synchronous or asynchronous classes. With the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic and the need for remote classes, the University of Brasília (UnB) offered training to its faculty on how to use e-learning platforms. In recent years, teachers and researchers from all over the world have been paying more attention to technological tools for online classes. Furthermore, some of teachers’ and students’ considerations showed the need for providing more training and experience in the development of blogs. The survey results revealed that the teams considered the blog useful to keep an update record of the project progress and to stimulate the writing and reflection about project contents. Thus, this paper has two main objectives: 1) to evaluate the importance of the blog for the teams 2) to discuss teams’ engagement during its development, knowing that it would be a part of the assessment method. In the IPIEM1 previous editions of PBL of this year in this program, the weblog (blog) digital technology was also adopted, but it was never assessed. To communicate their progress and results developed during the semester, each team designed a blog. Throughout the semester, each team must accomplish the project phases and tasks. To undertake this project, the students work in large teams that comprise nine to ten members. In this pedagogical development context, freshman students develop a project integrating all five courses related to this current semester. In the 2019’s 1st semester and in the IPIEM1 previous versions, Project-Based Learning (PBL) was usually adopted as a learning methodology. ![]() The Integrated Project of Industrial Engineering and Management 1 (IPIEM1) is a curricular unit of the first year developed in the first semester of the Integrated Masters degree of Industrial Engineering and Management (IEM11) – University of Minho, Portugal. A model based on Bloom's Taxonomy and other authors were proposed for the results analysis and it was possible to conclude that Trello as an innovative VLE and PBL organiser seemed to be positive from the author´s/tutor´s perception to the students' feedback and project results. From the beginning until the last activity, Trello as a VLE was disruptively essential for project organisation as well as their project success. After that, the students supported by a tutor proposed teams for each areas identifying team tasks. ![]() For instance: visual identity, digital marketing, financial and accountability, manufacturing, etc. According to the methodology, the students collaboratively identified the steps for project development from the "pizza bike" to the business areas related to it. Active Learning was the core learning approach taking PBL as a framework for it. The students from this PBL class came from distinct study areas like Graphic Design, Business Administration, Social Communication, and Journalism as well as Production Engineering since the program has an interdisciplinary character. The present research brings a case study under Trello point of view about a PBL class from a specialisation program named Creativity & Innovation where students chose to develop a project related to a vegan pizza bike entrepreneur in a Brazilian Applied Science Institute. It is also used as a formative assessment platform. Trello is not originally designed as a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) but it is recurrently adopted by one of the paper authors as a VLE for Project-Based Learning (PBL) classes development. The app has plenty of boards that help projects' development under SCRUM concept. Trello is a cloud app based on Kanban concept and also available for desktop mobile devices. ![]()
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