course match | Devpost

just upload your proof of enrollment along with your university email to connect with your cohort. Yes, its that simple!!
the Waterloo discord server with only enrolled course channels showing

Inspiration

School was never only about the education we receive but the experiences we have, memories we make and the friends along the way. Classrooms are places we can meet a lifelong friend for the sole fact of sitting next to each other and starting a conversation. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the entire education system has now moved online where it is virtually impossible to meet new friends for the sole reason of being in the same course. You can no longer start a conversation with someone you have never met, simply because you two are in the same class .... Until now!

Course Match is a secure online platform where students can join using their university transcripts and email to be placed in discord channels with other students taking the same courses. Course Match provide students with the opportunity to make friends and start conversation with those who would be sitting right next to them if not for the pandemic. We aim to bring students closer in a somewhat broken world.

Leveraging the familiar environment of discord and the security of our verification system, course match gives students in each cohort a great platform to meet and mingle.

The biggest challenges during this project were being able to make the experience as seamless as possible, and making sure we were able to provide the best functionality and security when admitting into discord channels.

The next steps for Course Match is to scale to accept various different universities and grow the connected community of students.