- The Problem
- The Solution
- Our Approach & Technologies
- User Stories
- App Usage and Features
- Demo App
- Download Instructions
- Contributors
In order for Makers Academy staff to receive feedback from all their current students, the students are required to complete a weekly learning plan whereby they would detail their achievements and difficulties etc. for the week. However, as students ourselves, we quickly realized that the majority were not filling their plans in each week. Therefore the coaches were not getting enough feedback from the students.
Another problem was that students could only give constructive feedback on the week's challenges in the Friday retro session. This therefore made it too late for the coaches to make any changes to the challenges based on the feedback given.
We had 3 days to build an app that would solve this problem.
We firstly built our own Slackbot which sends a message to all students once everyday. Within the message is a link to a website which we created. The website allows the students to login (via GitHub) and then complete a very short feedback form where they can express concerns about the week's challenges, pairing sessions and even how they're feeling in general. On the other side, the coaches have a separate login. Once logged in, they can see the results of the students' feedback in a nicely visiualized manner. They can also easily see those students who are struggling more than others.
| Tasks Completed | |
|---|---|
| Day 1 | Created Slackbot. Set up website and login functions. Built the feedback form in Angular JS. Also set up a Firebase database and tested that data was getting stored from website. |
| Day 2 | Restructured database to make it simpler to retrieve data. Created separate platform for coaches in Angular and started to display data from Firebase in real-time. Created data display formats. |
| Day 3 | Completed styling using HTML, CSS, Angular and Bootstrap. Deployed app to Firebase using a Node JS server. Refactored Angular code into several directives and factories. |
We also stuck to regular stand-ups and made sure that we were always pairing. Unfortunately, due to the 3 day timeframe we didn't have any time for testing. This is something that we are currently working on.
As a Student
So that I can remember to give feedback about the course
I want to receive a Slack message everyday that reminds me to complete a form
As a Student
So that I can easily enter the feedback website
I want to be able to login with my own GitHub account
As a Student
So that I can provide detailed feedback
I want to explain my reasons for giving a bad rating about anything
As a Student
So that I can provide daily feedback
I want to submit my responses to a brief list of questions
As a Coach
So that I can securely login to the feedback website to view the results
I want to have a separate login from the students
As a Coach
So that I can easily get an idea of how a cohort is doing
I want to see data for each cohort
As a Coach
So that I can see how students are getting on each day
I want to see a list of average ratings for their feedback responses
As a Coach
So that I can identify which students need more help
I want to track those students who are struggling more than others
Student can login to daily review app via GitHub:
Student can complete feedback form:
Coach can view results from students' feedback:
Visit the link below to see a live version of the app.
Makers Academy Daily Review App
Install Node JS
$ git clone git@github.com:hsheikhm/daily_review_app.git
$ npm install
$ bower install
Create Firebase database and deploy the application
Change the ref variables in controllers to point to your database url