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In the spring of 2020, the Department of Informatics covered a 20 ECTScapstone course in Software Engineering, mainly focusing on developing acomplex application. The course used active learning methods, and 240 studentswere working in 42 cross-functional, agile teams. The pandemic caused by thecoronavirus had a significant impact on the teaching given by the University ofOslo, as all physical education and collaboration among the teams had to bedigital from March 12. At the end of the semester, we conducted a survey thatfocused on 1) aspects of teamwork (e.g., communication and coordination in theteams) and the relation to team performance (e.g., the application product) and2), the students' motivation and ability to cooperate through digitalplatforms. A total of 151 respondents in 41 agile student teams answered thesurvey. This study aimed to investigate how the teamwork and motivation of thestudents were affected by having to work virtually. The results are compared toresults from the same course in 2019 and a similar survey on 71 professionalteams published in 2016. Our results show that the teamwork was evaluatedsimilarly to both the evaluation of survey conducted in 2019 and on theprofessional teams in 2016. The motivation among the students remained high,even though they had to collaborate virtually.

Exploring motivation and teamwork in a large software engineering capstone course during the coronavirus pandemic