Scattered to-do list, endless deadlines, vague memory on previous lessons & irritating homework problems - these are the issues faced by students nowadays, which decrease their learning performance in school
To tackle these problems, we came up with an innovative idea. Introducing ASS, a web app that integrates some of the key features that students are desperate for, such as the famous Kanban board which provides a visual process management system which aids decision-making, a well-designed calendar that displays upcoming events to ensure you never miss a beat. There is also a flashcard feature that aids your learning process, by implementing spaced-repetition and bite-sized learning techniques to ensure that learning never stops. Also, a chatbot function is a must-have for all students having issues with homework, as we know that it might take decades to get a reply from your teachers.
- Laravel
- Argon Theme
- Bootstrap
- Look into how Laravel handles users so everyone gets served the right notes, calendar etc
- Design a database structure that will play nice with this
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Contains 1 Fact
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Contains 1 Question
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Selected from a repository of facts and questions
*The idea is for the user to either use ready made flashcards/notes or make these flashcards as they go along studying
*Public repository containing these facts can be set up and shared between students
*The underlying code will pick facts and questions randomly
*It takes into account when was the last time the user was shown this fact, and older stuff will be given a higher weight
*Spaced repetition
- Retrieval from database
- Random note selection
- Older notes get greater weight for repetition
- Written in JS
- Notes stored in database
- Eventually will implement Quill editor for more powerful note-taking capability
- The idea behind the Kanban is it is a super duper flexible and customisable way of implementing a centralised to do list to manage tasks, and in some ways it provides a little bit of gamification to keep motivation up.
- Text note storage and retrieval from database
- Better editor
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Support for attachments
Images
Audio
Other misc attachments
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Reminders
- Displays automatically scraped deadlines
- User will also eventually have the option to add their own events
- Reminders
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Implement event addition
- Automatic scraping
- Reminders
- Powered by a buggy version of BotMan, has php version incompatibility issues pending investigation (potentially to do with differences in php7 and 8; it is a known issue so yeah)
- Will eventually run a ML algorithm to answer questions** **
- Fix php bug so that pre-programmed responses work
- iframe's css consistency
- ML answering system
App Link:
http://ec2-13-213-63-235.ap-southeast-1.compute.amazonaws.com/
Web Service: Amazon EC2
Instance type: t2.micro
Database: Amazon RDS
Engine: MySQL
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AWS Database was not accessible from localhost, but worked well on the server. Hence, we spent hours reading AWS documentation and eventually created a new security group to solve this.
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The iframe in chatbot is not working due to extra "public" word in the url. We tackled the problem by changing the root directory.
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Template is not fully up to date, and some of the routes are wrongly connected. Hence, we basically had to reverse engineer everything and write a lot of stuff from scratch. That was difficult since it's the first time we are working with Blade.
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Getting the javascript for the kanban page proved to be challenging, due to complete lack of prior experience and several differences between scripts from jsdelivr and Cloudflare.
Short-term goal:
- To alert students on deadlines periodically
- Allow students to access timetable conveniently
- Simplify campus navigation
Long-term goal:
- Integrate academic features that help students improve their study efficacy in a platform
- Implement worldwide, expand our target users - high school students