ClassChat is an online classroom app designed to provide the basic features needed to run online logistics for a class while retaining an easy-to-use chatroom for students and teachers to quickly communicate.
- Category: Education / Social Network
- Mobile: Developed for only mobile usage
- Story: Allows teachers to post assignments, grades and announcements. Students can view what the teacher posts. Additionally, students and teachers can chat in the chatrooms.
- Market: Students and teachers in education.
- Habit: Frequently. Students and teachers would actively engage with each other.
- Scope: Focused on basic online class logistics then expand to make logistic handling more robust.
Required Must-have Stories
- User logs in as either a student or teacher
- Students can access announcements, grades, and assignments
- Teachers can post and delete announcements, grades, and assignments
- Students and teachers can text on the chatrooms
- Teachers can create and delete chatrooms
Optional Nice-to-have Stories
- Users can customize profile with profile picture and biography
- Users can switch between classes
- Login/Register
- Announcements
- Teachers can post new announcements (title + description)
- Students can view announcements
- Assignments
- Teachers can post new assignments (title + description + points)
- Students can view assignments
- Grades
- Teachers can post grades for assignments (title + points earned + letter grade)
- Students can view grades
- Chatroom
- Teachers can create new chatrooms (title)
- Students and teachers can chat in chatrooms
Tab Navigation (Tab to Screen)
- Announcements
- Assignments
- Grades
- Chatroom
Flow Navigation (Screen to Screen)
- Forced Log-in -> Account creation if no log in is available
- Announcements
| Property | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| objectId | String | unique id (default field) |
| classId | String | unique classroom id generated for students to use to join class |
| teacher | Pointer to User | teacher of the classroom |
| students | Array of pointers to Users | all students currently in class |
| announcements | Array of pointers to Announcements | classroom announcements |
| assignments | Array of pointers to Assignments | classroom assignments |
| chatrooms | Array of pointers to Chatrooms | classroom chatrooms |
| Property | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| objectId | String | unique id for the user (default field) |
| name | String | name of user |
| classroom ids | String | ids corresponding to classrooms the user is in |
| Property | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| objectId | String | unique id for the announcement (default field) |
| name | String | name of announcement |
| date | Date | announcement date |
| description | String | announcement description |
| classroom id | String | id to corresponding classroom |
| Property | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| objectId | String | unique id for the assignment (default field) |
| name | String | name of assignment |
| description | String | assignment description |
| pointValue | Number | point value for assignment |
| dueDate | Date | assignment due date |
| grades | Object | key for each student's user id with value as their grade |
| classroom id | String | id to corresponding classroom |
| Property | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| objectId | String | unique id for the chatroom (default field) |
| name | String | name of chatroom |
| chats | Array of pointers to Chats | all chats sent in chatroom |
| classroom id | String | id to corresponding classroom |
| Property | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| objectId | String | unique id for the chat (default field) |
| user | Pointer to User | user that sent the chat |
| message | String | actual message sent |
| timestamp | Date | time message was sent |
- Teacher Account
- Classrooms Page
- (READ/GET) Query all classrooms that the user is a part of
- Announcements Page
- (Read/GET) Query all announcements for corresponding classroom
- (Create/POST) Create a new announcement
- (Update/PUT) Update an existing announcement
- (Delete) Delete an announcement
- Assignments Page
- (Read/GET) Query all assignments for corresponding classroom
- (Create/POST) Create a new assignment
- (Update/PUT) Update an existing assignment
- (Delete) Delete an assignment
- (Update/PUT) Update a student's assignment grade
- Chatrooms Page
- (Read/GET) Query all chatrooms for corresponding classroom
- (Create/POST) Create a chatroom
- (Update/PUT) Update a chatroom's name or description
- (Delete) Delete a chatroom
- (Create/POST) Create a message in a chatroom
- Classrooms Page
- Student Account
- Classrooms Page
- (READ/GET) Query all classrooms that the user is a part of
- Announcements Page
- (Read/GET) Query all announcements for corresponding classroom
- Assignments Page
- (Read/GET) Query all assignments for corresponding classroom
- Chatrooms Page
- (Read/GET) Query all chatrooms for corresponding classroom
- (Create/POST) Create a message in a chatroom
- Classrooms Page
