Inspiration
We felt like the pandemic has left classrooms feeling a bit empty and uninviting. We want lecture halls to be interactive, collaborative, and in general fun spaces to learn together! A lot of times, students sit quietly in lectures without getting a chance to ask questions. And even when they do get a chance to ask, many students stay quiet due to fear of coming across as lost or confused.
What it does
ChalkTalk will provide an anonymous forum for students to ask their classmates for help during lectures! No judgment, only friends helping friends! You can create chat rooms and have all your classmates join.
How we built it
- HTML - Wireframing
- CSS - Styling
- JS - Backend
- Firebase - Dynamic Database
- React - Update modules independently
Challenges we ran into
FIREBASE: We were all brand new to firebase, and holy smokes did it take us a while to wrap our heads around it. Designing the front end: It was challenging to get the chat texts to be minimal yet aesthetic.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We are incredibly proud that we were able to challenge ourselves with new technologies, and come up with a working prototype! All of us pitched in and worked as a team.
What we learned
Firebase, React, how to deploy a website, and how real-time databases work
What's next for ChalkTalk
We would love to add more features like:
- letting students run polls to ask how well others understand the current topic that the professor is going over
- The ability for students to like others messages
- Having chat rooms disappear after a certain time limit
- Improve the styling of the chat boxes
- Timestamps for messages
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