Judge My Professor

Inspiration

The inspiration for "Judge My Professor" came from the frustration of the tedious process of researching professors at Rutgers University before enrolling in classes. We wanted to make it easier for students to access and share professor ratings and reviews.

Judge My Professor is a browser extension that integrates with the Rutgers registration portal. It displays professor ratings and reviews next to each professor's name and course listing, providing students with valuable insights when selecting their classes.

We built the Chrome extension using web development technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. We created a server to scrape professor ratings from Rate My Professor and process our API requests for professor ratings. The extension then injects this data into the Rutgers registration portal.

Successfully developing and deploying a useful browser extension that simplifies the process of researching professors.

We gained valuable experience in web development, including working with browser extensions, web scraping, Node.js, servers, asynchronous programming, etc.
Learned to collaborate on projects using version control tools such as Git

Cache professor ratings to speed up the loading of each rating field
Improve accuracy of scraped professor data using additional information such as department name
Scrape additional metrics about each professor
Scrape Rutgers SIRS data
OnHover popup for each professor rating displaying additional information

I played a key role in our recent project, leading the creation of the user interface with HTML and CSS. I conducted essential research and shared valuable logic with the team to address project challenges. I contributed to the planning of the project, and the necessary functionalities that would make the project better.

Shubhay harnale
I worked on using Puppeteer to scrape data from RateMyProfessors as well as some of the server code to handle the web scraping and return the data to the extension. I also helped out with the DOM manipulation in the chrome extension files to display the ratings on Rutgers WebReg.

Praney Hirpara
Worked on pushing git changes, as well as contributed to the web-scraping script while working in a completely new language, Javascript, alongside Praney. Assisted in developing the HTML for the extension’s click functionality.

alepanderf
Worked on injecting HTML into the Rutgers WebReg Portal, implementing server-side cloud hosting, debugging server-client communication, and managing group contributions through git.

Lukas Siernos