General submission details
Be sure that your submissions abide by the ACM Conflict of Interest Policy.
Be sure when making a submission that all authors are included. The ACM and CompEd are not generally receptive to changes in the author list once a submission has been accepted.
Documents submitted for review should be high quality, unpublished, original work. The official language of the conference is English, and submissions for review should be written in good academic English. The entire proceedings will be available in the ACM Digital Library.
Note that reviewers will assume they are reviewing completed works, as they will eventually appear in the conference proceedings. Do not submit incomplete drafts!
Electronic submission is required. All submissions must be PDF files. Where anonymous submissions are required, please check the settings of your converter so it does not inadvertently include your name and affiliation in the PDF file.
Formatting requirements
All submissions must adhere to the CompEd 2023 formatting instructions. Templates for submissions can be found at the ACM SIG Proceedings website.
The proceedings page incorporates two different approaches: the existing templates and the new workflow model. Please note that the new workflow model is ‘for specified conferences only’. CompEd 2025 is not one of the specified conferences, so submitting authors are required to use the existing templates: for Word authors, the ‘Interim template’; for LaTeX authors, acmart.cls version 1.88 as updated in November 2022, or a more recent update if provided, with the sigconf option. A LaTeX template can also be found on Overleaf. If you find that the template is producing a single-column format, it is likely that you are not using the sigconf option. A command near the beginning of your file should read \documentclass[sigconf]{acmart}
The interim Word template is not generally considered easy to use, and it can be difficult to coerce it to produce a paper that conforms to the requirements. Authors who use Microsoft Word should be prepared for a significant challenge in getting an accepted paper to conform with the requirements ready for inclusion in the proceedings. Some authors have decided that it is easier to (re)learn LaTeX and use the LaTeX template on Overleaf than to fight with the Word template.
The template permits various forms of draft document. Please do not use a form that overlaps a watermark with the text of the paper, as this makes the text very difficult for some people to read. In addition, if you use any form other than the expected two-column format, you will still be expected to conform with the specified page limits, as we have no clear way of estimating the properly formatted size of a submission that is not formatted as specified.
Submission process
Submitting the abstract is not as simple as uploading a file and clicking ‘Submit’. The review process requires a great deal of information in order to ensure that your submission receives the best possible review, and that information is gathered at the time of first submission. Authors are advised to allow at least half an hour when first submitting the paper.
If submitting a full paper, think carefully about which of the three categories it belongs in. There is no process for shifting submissions between categories: submissions will be reviewed by the guidelines of the category to which they are submitted, and if they do not fit well in that category, they are unlikely to be favourably reviewed.
Before making a submission, please be ready with the email addresses of all co-authors; when making the submission, please take particular care when entering the addresses. Email addresses are required, and every invalid email address, even for a non-corresponding author, generates a bounce message sent to the CompEd chairs. Please take the time to avoid this.
Please ensure that you and your co-authors obtain an ORCID ID, so you can complete the publishing process for your accepted paper. ACM has been involved in ORCID from the start and they have recently made a commitment to collect ORCID IDs from all of the published authors. ACM is committed to improve author discoverability, ensure proper attribution and contribute to ongoing community efforts around name normalization; your ORCID ID will help in these efforts.
To submit your work, follow the link to the EasyChair submission page:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=comped2025
If you don’t already have an account, you will be prompted to create one. After logging in, you will find a submission form that requires you to enter the type, title, and abstract of your submission, plus contact information for all authors. Your submission must be in PDF format. The PDF file may be uploaded at the same time, or later. Both the information and the file may be updated at any time until the submission deadline.
You and all of your co-authors will receive email messages confirming the submission. Spam filters sometimes trap these automatically generated messages, so you may need to check your spam trap for confirmation and for any subsequent emails, including your notification of acceptance or rejection.
Publication date
The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. For those rare conferences whose proceedings are published in the ACM Digital Library after the conference is over, the official publication date remains the first day of the conference.
Authorship policy
The ACM has recently revised its authorship policy in a way that might impact some CompEd authors. In summary, any person listed as an author on a paper must (1) have made substantial contributions to the work, (2) have participated in drafting/revising the paper, (3) be aware that the paper has been submitted, and (4) agree to be held accountable for the content of the paper. The revision is intended to allow enforcement of plagiarism sanctions, but it could impact people who work in large, collaborative research groups, and on postgraduate advisors who have not contributed directly to a paper. Prospective authors should read the new policy. You should also ensure that your submissions abide by the ACM Conflict of Interest Policy. Aligned with this is also the ACM Publications Policy on the Withdrawal, Correction, Retraction, and Removal of Works from ACM Publications and ACM DL.
Research involving human participants and subjects
By submitting your article to an ACM Publication, you are hereby acknowledging that you and your co-authors are subject to all ACM Publications Policies, including ACM’s new Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects. Alleged violations of this policy or any ACM Publications Policy will be investigated by ACM and may result in a full retraction of your paper, in addition to other potential penalties, as per ACM Publications Policy.
Any submission that makes use of data from human participants (including student surveys, class results, educator interviews, published data sets, etc) must clearly indicate whether approval has been granted for the use of that data, by what authority (respecting anonymity in the version submitted for review), and what the approval covers. If the work includes any data from human participants that has not been granted approval, that should be clearly explained.
Polished work only
Following the SIGCSE conference policies, reviewing for papers is dual-anonymous, including protection of the complete anonymity of the APCs and reviewers during the discussion phase.
With the exception of the Phased Papers Track, only polished work is accepted, as there is no review-revise-review cycle.
The program and track chairs reserve the right to reject, without review, submissions that are clearly not ready for review, submissions that exceed the specified page limits, submissions that are not formatted as specified, and submissions that do not fall within the computing education scope of the conference.
Attendance at the conference
In line with SIGCSE conference policy, at least one author of each paper and poster, and all members of working groups, panels, and the doctoral consortium, are required to attend the conference. If something happens, and you are unable to meet this requirement, please contact the conference chairs as soon as possible.