Updates

Fall 2019

update #2

After working out the project plan, we are working on it now. The first step is to design a dashboard for the whole website. We come up with a prototype for the dashboard. But it did not satisfied the client and our technical partner. They said it looks childish. The reason for that is that we figured out the wrong users. We thought it was for 7 year-old-child. Actually, it was for 12 year-old-child. So we decided to modify that. When it comes to back end. Bryanth successfully put the file into the docker, the routing finally worked. We can share his code and did the job. Our technical helper Chance came and taught us how to organize the development job. The core of successful development is that do  not start different part of the project in the same time. Do not let more than one person develop.

We are confident for the late development.

Fall 2019

Update #1

This week we finished our project plan. It is a hard job. At first , we did not know how to write that and the article was full of unrealistic words. Thanks to Arthur and other technical partners’ help, we finally finished that. They helped us to have a initial thoughts of the whole website, like going through all the tasks we need to finish and where we should put the functions. What is more, they tried to lead us to find the goal of the project.

In next week, we may get to start to work.

Remaining tasks is the following:

  1. Talk to the client for the requirement of the dashboard
  2. Design the Dashboard
  3. Code the Dashboard
  4.  Test the Dashboard

 

 

 

Spring 2019

Update #9

4.30.2019

We are currently working on the Final Report, presentation, and the exhibit poster. We are also working on the web application. The quiz successfully generates questions populated randomly from the database depending on the subject. However we still need to clean up the code and add some CSS elements. Our original website prototype had 6 different topics on it however, right now we only have different math topics in our database. All the information in the database was put in manually and we are also looking at ways we could automatically get the database to generate that information through the backend.

Spring 2019

Update #8

4.22.2019

We are currently working on the web application on React. Our database is situated on MongoDB and we have currently two different databases with data populated from textbooks we got from IntelliChoice. The application is on React and we are making it using HTML and CSS and React elements.

Spring 2019

Update #7

4.4.2019

During the week of spring break we had decided that we would work on creating the website using Angular. As such Jibi was tasked with creating a homepage for the website by the time that we came back from break. Mythri and Divya were tasked with learning Angular while Mahim and Sivam were to focus on populating the database with dummy data. However this week we decided to change to using React instead of Angular therefore we will be redoing the web application using React.

Spring 2019

Update #6

3.14.2019

Our mid-semester presentation was today. In the presentation we discussed what our main goals were as well as what our stretch goals are. Jibi created the website prototype that is attached. We split the team into who would work on the frontend and who would work on the backend. We decided that Jibi, Mythri, and Divya would work on the frontend while Mahim and Sivam would work on the backend.

Spring 2019

Update #5

2.21.2019

The semester plan was due today so we decided to make a quiz generator. After talking to Dr.Choi he agreed that something like Khan Academy sounds like a good plan. We have decided to gather textbooks from the Ethiopian branch and to use questions from those textbooks to create a question bank that will be used in the quiz generator. We are currently looking at either using Angular or React to create the web application that will become a quiz generator. The database portion of it will focus heavily on MongoDB as of right now. We also need to start working on our mid-semester presentation as that is on March 14th.

Spring 2019

Update #4

2.14.2019

We have currently talked to Arthur about what the UT Design team is working on for IntelliChoice, which is an attendance tracker that works with facial recognition. After talking to Arthur he liked our idea of making a quiz generator for the students. Although we are only at the bare bones of it we want something that is not as complicated as Khan Academy. The semester plan is due on February 21st so we are planning on talking to one of our sponsor’s Dr.Choi to see what his opinion on the idea of a quiz generator is as well.

Spring 2019

Update #3

2.7.2019

During today’s meeting we focused on creating an actual idea of what we would like to do to help IntelliChoice. We talked with our mentor, Arthur, about what we had found at IntelliChoice and it actually came out that there was an attendance policy in place however it was simply that the branch managers were not using it. On the other hand we came up with what we would be able to do to help with the homework issue. Many ideas circulated around creating something online that was easily accessible to the students which they could use after coming back from sessions in the branches. We also discussed making something along the lines of what Khan Academy has already implemented but more focused on simply IntelliChoice.

Spring 2019

Update #2

2.2.2019

     

Jibi, Mythri, and Divya visited the Ethiopian branch today. We talked to one of the branch managers, Dr.Lalita Kulkarni. Our discussion consisted of us asking questions about how we as students could help the branch and improve day to day operations. Dr.Kulkarni mentioned that one of the most important things that we would be able to help with would be the attendance of the students as well as homework for the students. As we were talking, Dr.Kulkarni said that a lot of parents were showing a lot of interest about what the students were coming home with, which at this point was nothing since the textbooks were not being sent home with them.

After our meeting at the Ethiopian branch we discussed ideas geared toward an attendance tracker as well as some kind of way to send out homework to the students.