SFU Course Navigator / Planner

[EarthenSky]

We want to make a web app for viewing all of SFU's courses & navigating them. This will involve implementing a form of natural language parsing for pre-requisites & using SFU's course API. Connecting RMP might also be good.

see https://github.com/EarthenSky/course-navigator for something similar & rudimentary

[micahdbak]

Maybe this should be tied into our exam bank stuff? 😮

[EarthenSky]

I remember we had some super cool ideas about this, yeah! I have a few ideas of who we're gonna assign this task to, if they're able.

Here's a braindump of some of the aspects we considered beforehand:

• Intermittently store course information in our API to make it faster and more reliable.
• Stack Overflow = CSSS RateMyCourse!
  • The idea for this project is to create a course materials forum with the goal of making educational materials more accessible to students. Hopefully, students can use this to help study, pre-study, and decide on courses to take.
  • contain a section for organizing exams & courses using historical information from the coursys api. We’ll probably want to have our own references for some of the exams, since they’re older than 2001-ish, when coursys stops
  • It would nice to have a space for frequently asked SFU, CS, & CSIL questions & answers, but that is fuzzy searchable
    • “how to ssh into csil?”
    • “how to get into csil?”
• Another idea: forum for asking public questions to the CSSS Members & Execs: “Ask CSSS”
  • enables public answers
  • this is effectively the stackoverflow part, but these kinds of questions would be given tags (like: sfu, csil, etc…) to help filter searches
  • the visual design for this section of the website should be inspired by stackoverflow, so that the location of ui elements is familiar & it’s intuitive to use - SFU Overflow, CSSS Overflow ?
  • Give professors special power & allow them to flag submissions immediately. regular users can also flag submissions.
    • Submissions should only be taken down if flagged 2 or more times (or something similar).