CovED

A Centralized Education resource hub for students under the COVID-19 quarantine

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Inspiration

COVID-19 Has affected the way that all students are learning. Moving to an online platform has not only been difficult for teachers but students as well. We thought that there should be a centralized database, where everyone depending on their province and grade, can go in and look at the vital information that is needed for them to be successful in the course of choice. As students that are affected by COVID-19, we find the online learning experience to be lacking in the convenience of finding additional information online. Oftentimes the material mentioned by the teacher is not enough to support our academics and we look for information online to dig deeper into the subject. Though upon searching the internet, we found it very difficult to find the appropriate resources for the curriculum that we are studying. This difficulty in finding additional resources as academic support is what sparked CovEd.

What it does

CovEd is a database built to assist students with finding essential resources for their curriculum in order to provide better academic support. With online resources that are readily available online, CovEd is able to simplify and reduce the time spent on the internet trying to find resources that are not guaranteed to help them in their particular curriculum. On the main page of CovEd, the user is presented with a welcome message and 2 dropdown menus to select their province and their grade. When they click the go button, the course stream and course codes show up and users have a selection of buttons containing the topic names.

How we built it

Bootstrap, CSS3, HTML5, JavaScript

Challenges we ran into

The majority of us were beginners with a lack of experience and had a difficult time implementing more tools into the back-end. Also, the website faces challenges of scaling, as implementing more subjects to the site requires more ID tags and links.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

For most of the pages, they were prototyped in figma to follow a set color scheme. This allowed a cohesive setup in the pages, that made sure to use comforting and colorful color schemes to give a cheerful atmosphere during hard times. Additionally, we all had something new to learn. For the majority of us, it was our first time working on a hackathon and we got the opportunity to improve ourselves and make something we think can help the world. Moreover, we were able to teach each other our valuable skills, making it a great and fun learning process.

What we learned

We made sure to take advantage and attend some workshops, as well as push ourselves to experiment and learn new things. Some new technologies we learnt are:

  • Bootstrap
  • Firebase
  • JavaScript

In addition to this, since for the majority of us this was our first hackathon, we learnt valuable soft skills such as communication, planning and cooperation. It was super cool to meet people around the world with similar interests!

What's next for CovEd

We will be continuing to develop CovEd and continuously adding features like progress bars and more useful information and resources that branch outside of academic studies. We look to create a review section to help graduating students find the right major and a social service where undergrads can interact with graduating high school students to help mentor and answer the high school student’s questions and concerns in a thread style conversation similar to Quora or Reddit but exclusively for students. We also want to provide a FAQ section as well as lists for majors and university rankings based on the students by conducting surveys for the users on our site.

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