Roobrick app

Roobrick app board view
Chart view - visual comparison of assessment scores.
Roobrick updates a column with assessment summaries

Inspiration

The benefits of rubrics are widely recognised with the academic community, but less so in business. Roobrick unleashes the power of rubrics through a modern web application and the app created under this submission brings this power to monday.com users.

What it does

Monday.com board items can represent all kinds of things. In many cases, items may represent something that needs to be assessed in some way. For example, a manager might have an board managing the career development of their employees. If each item in the board represents and employee, then it's likely that one of the columns may provide an assessment of the employee's current capabilities. The Roobrick app provides a view allowing the user to create assessments for each employee. As the user enters assessment information, the app automatically updates any text column with the assessment summary.

The app also provides a chart mode allowing the assessments of all board items to be visually compared.

The app allows any rubric to be chosen. Roobrick provides a number of generic rubrics, but users can also create their own. Here are some example types of assessments that can be made:

Manage job interviews in monday.com and assess the candidates using the job interview rubric or your organisation custom job interview rubric.
Defining OKRs is difficult. For a board summarising OKRs, use the app to assess the quality with which the OKRs are defined.
Conduct a competitive analysis where each competitor is evaluated against a gold standard represented by a rubric.

How I built it

Rubric is a ReactJS single page app with Google Firebase cloud functions providing back end services. It was easy to extend this to support the addition of the monday.com view functionality.

I used monday.com's storage features to store all the configuration information and assessments in monday.com. This means that customers do not need to be worried that their data is egressing to another system.

Challenges I ran into

I am only on monday.com's basic plan which is limited in functionality and hampered the exploration of monday.com's features. It also deterred me from developeing feeatures that can only be accessed by a paid plan because I would not be able to reproduce related issues unless I was willing to pay for the same plan.

I would like to have built a dashboard that summarises assessment information, but the monday.com storage model does not allow data to be retrieved when not in the context of the board.