  Merging the content of learning with the motivation of games can be a
successful combination, if done properly and supported by the appropriate tool.
Towards this goal, we developed Diagramatic an environment used to gamify the
in-classroom activity of designing diagrams during a lecture. Using Diagramatic
the professor, instead of lecturing about diagrams or showing examples of such
diagrams, can design short games where the students could play by competing
during the lecture. Diagramatic is a complete environment offering to the
professor a design application to create games and a management application.
The management application is used for monitoring the games while students
play, as well as to present the results to the students after the end of each
game, or to evaluate these results after classroom time. The students may use
the mobile application on their mobiles to practice by designing diagrams
outside of the classroom, as well as to play a game during classroom time, but
only after the professor starts this game. The environment handles the
communication from students' mobiles to the professor's applications and vice
versa, while the students submit their diagrams or receive the correct ones, so
to proceed to follow up games. The current version of Diagramatic is tailored
for designing flow graphs used for path testing into a higher education
software engineering course, but the environment can be used in any similar
case requiring the design of diagrams (e.g. math, physics, chemistry).
