DevMountain is a coding school located in Provo, UT. It is a comprehensive technology program that allows students to launch a career in the tech industry as web developers, iOS developers, or UX designers. A key aspect of students’ learning is the mentor program that DevMountain employs. This program allows students to have one on one access to experienced developers when help is needed to get through a difficult portion of a project. The DevMountain Q is a tool that has been developed for DevMountain that will aid students, mentors, and the program in the following ways:
- Students will have an overview of all daily curriculum and learning objectives on a single page
- Curriculum and learning objectives will update automatically each day
- Students will be able to notify mentors quickly and easily when help is needed
- Mentors will be able to see where help is needed in an efficient manner
- User data will be captured and administrators can use the data to focus on student needs and make program improvements
- Overview of daily curriculum and learning objectives that updates automatically
- Each curriculum item is hyper-linked to further resources pertaining to curriculum item
- Ability for student to indicate confidence levels in each learning objective
- Student can enter question when help is needed
- Student has ability to share question and anwer if he or she feels it will benefit the class
- Shared questions and answers can be viewed by entire cohort in "Common Questions" section
- Admin can view where help is needed by each cohort
- Admin has ability to track attendance for each student throughout program
- Confidence levels of each learning objective by student can be viewed
- Flash polls may be given to students to obtain snapshots of student confidence as material is taught
- Mentors can see when questions are submitted in real time
- Mentors have the ability to share common questions and answers so program leaders can make strategic decisions
- Mentors will be able to view questions and answers students share
- Admin can view overall attendance across all cohorts, single cohort, and by student
- Admin can view learning objective confidence levels across all cohorts, single cohort, and by student
- Admin can view student questions across all cohorts, single cohort, and by student
- Angular JS
- HTML
- CSS
- Materialize CSS
- D3
- MongoDB
- Node
- Express
- Socket.io
