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This study evaluates the use of CalcPad, a free and open source computational tool, in civil engineering education. The aim was to examine its influence on students’ understanding of engineering concepts and their problem-solving efficiency. CalcPad provides transparent symbolic and numerical calculations, automatic formatting, and professional report generation, making it suitable for courses that require structured mathematical reasoning. A survey was conducted among 35 undergraduate and graduate students who ...

Since the breakout of COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, post-secondary education in Croatia has been held almost exclusively online. Therefore, teachers and students had to adapt to the entirely way of education. Online classes were held by using web-conference tools (MS Teams, Zoom, Moodle webinar), while class materials and online exams were available through learning management systems (Merlin, 2co2, Moodle). In this paper we present the results of surveying students of electrica University of Rijeka, and studen...