Inspiration
“Desperate times calls for desperate measures” We drew inspiration from how COVID-19 has affected us in a major way, one being education-- Many kids are losing access to the resources that are necessary to continue educating themselves. We at Scholire believe that there are no frontiers too big for education and innovation.
What it does
Scholire aims to make learning fun and accessible. Users can get resources to learn almost everything. Most of the cited resources are free and also applicable to people of all ages and skill sets.
How we built it
We first made a wireframe to make ourselves an idea of what we want our website to look like. Then, we split up the work and each worked on our assigned sections. While in the process of coding our website, we constantly kept each other updated and helped each other fix bugs. After, we went through our entire website again and made finishing touches.
Challenges we ran into
We ran into multiple challenges when trying to fix small bugs that were affecting our entire code. For example, when we were trying to make our home page, we attempted to make a header that included our project name Scholire as well as our navigation bar. However, our attempts were largely unsuccessful. We had several CSS issues in general that we needed to collaborate in order to fix.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We are proud of making a cohesive website that is aesthetically pleasing and user friendly. We are especially proud of the 28-Day Study Challenge that our users can participate in to make studying a part of their daily routine while changing it up slightly everyday to keep it interesting.
What we learned
We learned how to use JavaScript to make a responsive navigation bar in which the user can make the window smaller and the navigation links will appear in a hamburger menu instead of a list. Additionally, we also learnt how to program an SVG wave into our website to make the design and thus the UX more enjoyable.
What's next for Scholire
In future iterations, we hope to implement a feature that would save the user’s information by creating accounts with a signup page. They would be able to return to Scholire and login through a login page where they would have personalized resources for the courses they’re taking. This way, Scholire would be more fit for each user, making it more desirable to use. Another feature we would like to program in the future would be to have a quiz that users would be able to take to determine their learning style (e.g. visual, auditory, kinesthetic, etc.). Their results from that quiz would be saved into their account to personalize resources given to them which specialize in that specific learning style. In doing so, we also plan to find many more reputable and free resources to share with our users. We also plan to add descriptions to the resources we share to give more clarity to users.
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