Using Students Discord Interactions in the Evaluation of Teamwork Competence Acquisition

Nowadays competences such as teamwork are highly valued in the labor world. Students must develop it at educational institutions, which implies they should interact between them when working in groups. The evaluation of such interactions and other behaviors can allow us to decide if the competence has been acquired. However, this present three main problems: 1) with an important number of students observation is not possible; 2) it does not include the interactions carried out to address a problem or a project beyond the institution, and 3) the use of institutional tools such as forums or chats to develop these tasks discourage the students. In order to solve these issues instant messaging tools have been used as a solution. However not all of them are open or used by the students. In the last few years one of most used instant messaging tools has been Discord. This work presents a development to track and evaluate the interactions of the students at such a platform and how the evidence can be used to evaluate teamwork competence.