COURSE RESOURCE Find, Collect, and Share the best online resources for your classes
With the growth of online educational content, students have access to more and better ways of learning the topics being covered in class. Course Resources provides them a way to collect these resources and share them with other users
–> Somewhat prioritized list of USER STORIES
* [X]i want to create an user account/profile and select which school i am taking courses in
* User model
* school_id => i need to associate myself with a school
* name
* password_digest
* year_in_school *optional*
* FUTURE: add "Major" column in table
* School model
* Name
* City
* State
* Zip Code
* [X]I want to have admin privileges to the system (this is for me)
* [X]as an admin, i want to be able to add schools to the system (this is for me)
* [X]after login/signup, user should arrive at their user home page with user details
* [X]user should be able to see their courses on their user home page
* [X]users can search for a course (simple search done, must improve search)
* [ ]user should be able to add courses from their user home page
* [ ]have a simple sign up form (to get started quickly) and implement a finish profile progress bar to be finished later
* [X]i want to specify for which courses i have signed up: "PIN YOUR COURSES"
* 1. Build a database of courses from northwestern's CS program
* use web crawler nokogiri -- I HAVE DONE THIS
* have first 10 courses in the db -- I HAVE DONE THIS
* implement semester and quarter systems?
* or maybe have a term-independent system that depends only on classes
* COURSE model:
* dept
* course_no
* title
* website
* short_description
* user_id
* school_id
* [ ]i want to be able to quickly find the best ways to learn the topics covered in my classes
* WHAT I NEED TO IMPLEMENT THIS:
* know the topics covered in class through built in data, or by parsing a syllabus and picking out the topics covered
* Use Nokogiri gem to scrape course descriptions, topics, etc
* [ ]i want to be able to upload my class syllabus
* [done for youtube, iTunesU]i want to search the web for resources based on topics
* OCW
* youtube
* iTunesU
* [ ]as a student, i want to know if my class is similar to any classes in the best schools in the country * [ ]i want to get weekly with a couple timely videos relevant to my course-work