Inspiration
A degree is a personalised product. Subjects come at a cost, yet we take them on the basis of only a description, which is essentially a university advertising pitch. Each year students discover subjects they love, and rue subjects they wish they had never taken. Too often have we heard the story about: "this subject is [amazing/balls/boring]." And someone will nod empathetically and agree. Don't tell someone that's taken the subject. Tell someone that hasn't.
What it does
°Explorer (pronounced Degree Explorer) is a UOW degree planner that allows for students to review subjects. Students can use honest reviews to decide which subjects to take and which subjects to avoid, and plan their subjects for future sessions. In short, °Explorer is an anonymous subject review platform, as well as a degree planner.
Who needs this
New Students: Don't depend on a subject description, they're just a sales pitch. Ask someone that's taken it. Except you probably don't know anyone who has. Changing your mind about your degree is normal. But you can get a second opinion before you even begin.
Current Students: To help choose electives that will interest them but not necessarily be pertinent to their degree. They can organise and save interesting subjects for later sessions.
Post-grads: Post-grads: The most valuable resource to because of the countless subjects they have taken. Not because of their degree. If you're a post grad with afterthoughts, inform other students.
What this will achieve
Public student feedback will make small influences over the choices students make. Slowly, student subject enrolment will support strong valuable subjects, and attendance in poor subjects will reduce.
Lecturers will have a better way to evaluate what students desire. UOW is constructing subjects for students, yet too often students have to accept how a subject is run because (as students) we have no choice.
How we built it
A big credit goes to Venuatu's api that scrapes UOW's subject database.
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