Inspiration
Around me, conversations about school often return to two problems: students struggle to understand higher education admissions, and lessons are disrupted when absent teachers cannot be replaced.
One teacher described seeing strong applicants remain on waiting lists without understanding what would happen next. Meanwhile, replacement difficulties affect the learning opportunities students receive before they even apply.
Déclic connects these concerns: helping students navigate their future while giving education professionals tools to support them.
What it does
Déclic is a shared platform designed for students, teachers, admissions teams, and school coordinators.
For students, it brings together course exploration, comparisons, a profile and CV builder, application tracking, and understandable decision explanations.
For education professionals, it is designed to support two workflows:
- Admissions: examine applications against published criteria, record the reasoning behind decisions, and respond to clarification requests.
- Teaching continuity: coordinate replacement needs with qualified candidates’ subjects, availability, and geographic coverage.
In the intended replacement workflow, candidates provide their qualifications and experience, schools confirm assignments, and completed teaching hours are recorded for compensation through the responsible institution.
How i built it
The current prototype uses HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. It includes clickable student and institution workspaces, a CV editor with a live preview, and a simulated ENT connection demonstrating optional profile autofill.
The design uses cream backgrounds, warm typography, school-themed stickers, and an AI-generated notebook illustration.
We also researched official French education data sources and tested public APIs for course information and historical admissions statistics. Integration is a next development step.
Challenges
Déclic needs to serve people with different responsibilities. Students need clear explanations and next steps; professionals need structured information and dependable workflows.
Another challenge is distinguishing public information from institutional records. Historical admissions statistics cannot explain an individual decision. Likewise, a scheduling tool cannot itself authorize someone to teach.
The prototype therefore separates real public data, fictional demonstration records, and institutional connections that remain simulated.
What i learned
Admissions and teaching continuity both depend on clear information, human responsibility, and understandable decisions.
Students need to know what happens next. Professionals need to know what requires their attention, what information is missing, and who is responsible for each action.
What’s next
We are moving toward persistent accounts and complete workflows between the student and professional spaces.
The next milestones are integrating official course data, making application submission and review functional within Déclic, and implementing replacement requests, availability matching, assignment confirmation, and completed-hours tracking.
Institutional authentication, eligibility checks, and payment connections would require authorized partners. The hackathon version will demonstrate these boundaries clearly while making Déclic’s internal workflows functional.
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