Our dear founder demanded a way for students to share their class notes with each other. Then he left to go work on something else.
(Obligatory analogy - Reddit for Evernote)
Kumu - a peer-reviewed note-sharing platform for students. Visit Kumu
Wire Frames
User Stories
- The User:
- A student who joins a classroom to learn their specific topic. After a lecture, students share their notes and feedback with eachother.
- Students interact with each other's notes through comments and up / down voting. Additionally the App will feature the ability to create an account, have custom information on 82E2 a user profile, and keep track of user stats.
- Students can join multiple topics/classrooms.
Ruby on Rails PostgreSQL Hosted on Heroku
Required Gems:
acts_as_votablepaperclipmaterializeredcarpetcoderaybcrypt
- Thumbs_up Gem didn't work for voting, had to try another.
- DB structure, associating posts with topics.
- Tagging System for Posts
- Text-based search for post content
- Show users that upvoted a post
- Show posts the a user voted on.
- Integrate Paperclip in posts.