Examining Accesses to Educational Resources in a Blended Learning Flipped Classroom Controls Course in 2020

The Controls and Servomechanisms course is mandatory for students in two Enginering curricula - Control & Automation and Electrical. In 2020, it was supposed to be offered in the Blended Learning (b-learning) and flipped classroom mode as it had been in the past. Many courses in the two curricula use this mode. Due to the pandemic, the university switched to totally remote activities and, for this reason, the synchronous sessions had to be held using a videotelephony solution. This meant that online courseware became more important and its usage was an indicator of the participation of students. The same happened with discussion forums since instructors and students had to use them to communicate in off class hours. This work addresses the use of both courseware and discussion forums in 2020, and relates this use to the grades of students. All data are collected from the platform used to support the course. Data are presented as percentages, averages and histograms.