Inspiration
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, students are left in their homes alone studying rigorous material from their university classes. They have no resources or collaborative tools to work with their peers on. With our E-Study Buddy website, students are given a free tool to study together through live video-call libraries and meet other students around the world who are studying similar subjects.
What it does
This tool not only encourages collaborative learning but also facilitates an online educational community. Students are able to work with any student, regardless of their school, to work on similar course material. This will allow students to see different perspectives on their learning material; therefore, they will learn more and see different ways of learning the material.
How I built it
The current design of E-Study Buddy makes use of Google's Firebase API to deploy the app. Various libraries are used to keep a database of the users providing input for the chat and who joins or leaves the video calls. This technology allows users to interact with each other remotely in a user-friendly way. We also added a sign in feature through FireBase that allows the database to keep track of users and their discussion inputs.
Challenges I ran into
As college students who recently made the transition to "Zoom University," we recognized that there are many different solutions to the issues of remote-learning. Thus, we decided to create a tool that enables private video-call study sessions and 24/7 live-stream libraries to account for those in different time-zones. Additionally, since most students have access to a computer and require the internet to complete their work, we believe E-Study Buddy will reach more people and be most effective as a website.
Our challenges mostly comprised of time constraints because we didn't have enough time to work on the back end of our application to allow the video chatting to work. We also had difficulties with working together whether one person coded and screen shared their computer or everyone worked on separate functions. We ended up doing a little bit of both and it worked well!
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
I am immensely proud of our team because this was all of our first websites ever. We had very little javascript background and we ended up creating the basics of a great website. We all learned a lot and had fun together.
What I learned
Our team learned almost everything that we created. This was our first website and our first JavaScript coding experience.
What's next for E-Study Buddy Website Application
Next for E-Study Buddy, we will continue to work on our website and start the backend aspect to allow video calling to work. We believe in this website and know it has great potential to be the next wave of study techniques.
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