**6. Analysis of the academic results**

The web application has been used successfully during the two last years with undergraduate students of engineering programs within the Bologna Process in a number greater than 300 students per year. In fact, even though the application was thought, at first, as a tool to help the teachers in the master classes, the very good reception given by the students forced us to transform it into a web application which is the form it has at the moment.

The on-line tool has been of special interest to those students with no previous training in technical drawing. The application gives them the possibility of preparing the subject on their own rhythm, stopping whenever and wherever they need to focus on the different sections of the course.

A measure of the application success could just be the students request to create the web site, but a more accurate measure should be done. The academic results before and after the use of the application has been considered to evaluate the goodness of the application. The percentage of students that passes the subject every year can be a good indicator of the influence of the application. Obviously, the students of different years are not the same, and for that reason the academic results could not be really comparable; and on the other hand the application should not be the only influence factor in the academic results. Apart from the academic results and the requirement of the students to create the application, and also their oral feedback, no other indicator has been considered to analyze the goodness of the application. As an example, between 2004 and 2008 the percentage of students that passed the subject was between 35% and 40%. Since the year in which we started to use the tool (2009), there has been an increase in the results reaching values of 70%. But this is not the only good result, in these last years, the marks of the students that have passed the exams are higher than they used to be in the past. This can be considered also an indicator of the goodness of the tool.
