Nebula Web

Nebula Web is a tool for planning out students' college experience

About

Overview

Nebula Web allows students to plan out including coursework, co-curricular activities like studying abroad and research, and extracurricular involvement in student organizations. It does this with an intuitive drag-and-drop interface that represents various college activities as blocks and displays them in semester groups.

Inspiration

Planning coursework poses a challenge for many.

From choosing the right professors to knowing when to take a class, schedule planning is the bane of any college student.

UTD students have access to tools like UTD Grades and Rate My Professors to help them pick classes for a specific semester, but there hasn't been a solution that allows a student to say, "I want to major in CS, minor in psychology, and do a few internships before grad school. Generating a plan lets me do all of that with the professors I want."

Until now, that is.

Nebula Web is an integrated solution designed to help students plan out their entire undergraduate experience in one place. It allows students to focus on ensuring their college experience holistically suits their desires and optimize for long-term success.

Features

Drag-and-drop interface for planning coursework by semester for any degree plan
Sign in to save data across planning sessions
Export to file to share your custom plan with someone else

Contributing

Contributions are welcome!

This project uses the MIT License.

Process

To get started, see the contribution guide. It'll tell you everything you need to know.

Additionally, see the Project Nebula-wide contributors guide for more info.

Once you're ready to make some changes, see the issues for the repository.

If you want to brainstorm, share ideas or ask questions, start a discussion in the Discussions section.

Set-up

This project requires a working Node.js and NPM installation. It also requires local environmental variables since it uses Firebase.

Create a file called .env.local in the root directory and add your personal Firebase env keys

NEXT_PUBLIC_FIREBASE_API_KEY=REPLACE_ME 
NEXT_PUBLIC_FIREBASE_AUTH_DOMAIN=REPLACE_ME 
NEXT_PUBLIC_FIREBASE_PROJECT_ID=REPLACE_ME 
NEXT_PUBLIC_FIREBASE_STORAGE_BUCKET=REPLACE_ME 
NEXT_PUBLIC_FIREBASE_MESSAGING_SENDER_ID=REPLACE_ME 
NEXT_PUBLIC_FIREBASE_APP_ID=REPLACE_ME

To start, clone the repository, and then run npm start to launch a local development server at localhost:3000 by default.

git clone https://github.com/UTDNebula/planner.git
cd planner
npm run dev

Check out this document for more information.

Contact

This project is maintained by Nebula Labs, which is an open-source initiative to build projects that improve student life at UTD. If you have any questions about this project or Project Nebula, join the Nebula Labs discord.

For more formal inquiries, send us a message at core-maintainers@utdnebula.com with "[nebula-web]" in the title. Please be as detailed as possible so we can best assist you.

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