According to The Journal, more than 94% of the teachers have transitioned to remote teaching, but there has been a lack of improvements in tools to support remote teaching.
Dude to this lack of tools and technologies in the educational field, teachers have been struggling to cover the necessary amount of curriculum within a year and expressing frustrations faced by the harsh situation:
- "I am feeling overwhelmed with vast amount of ideas and resources available."
- "I don’t have much experience, and I’m learning things all over again,”
- “I didn’t grow up with computers. Back then, we had typewriters, maybe an electric typewriter, and now they no longer exist,”
The web app Professor's Pet is a tool that simplifies teacher’s tasks and reduces the overwhelming responsibilities of managing various remote learning platforms like Zoom and Google Classroom by integrating them into a single master platform. This will provide the teachers to have a single user-friendly website that not only prevents unnecssary hoppings around different websites but also allows to execute daily tasks with automation and visualizations, such as attendance, announcements, and invitations to a meeting.
Our team integrated Zoom API with OAuth and Google Classroom API. For backend, we utilized node.js, express.js, nginx on unix server. For frontend, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript are used.