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The Hook

Are you feeling lost and overwhelmed with the maze-like university course maps?

Do you find yourself constantly struggling to navigate through the endless lists of requirements and prerequisite? If so, you are not alone.

The Problem

Each year, several thousand students enrol in Deakin University. Unfortunately, a lot of these students struggle with understanding the requirements they need to fulfil in order to graduate. What electives do you do, have you met prerequisites or other course rules? What exactly will you learn and benefit from in a unit?

Universities also have problems with putting out course-relevant information that is easily digestible. Most information in course maps doesn’t apply to students that have transferred from other degrees or have an altered path to the original map.

CourseFlow is a clear and easy-to-use course planning platform that helps students navigate their course requirements and graduate with confidence.

The Solution

CourseFlow is a tool designed to ease the frustrations of both students and universities by offering a user-friendly course-planning experience. With an intuitive UI, students can easily create a customized course map tailored to their specific needs, allowing them to visually track their progress and see how units relate to one another. CourseFlow takes into account important factors such as electives, prerequisites, and study load, while also generating a skills summary based on the units taken.

The Product Demo

While there are other course planners on the market, our platform distinguishes itself by providing a unit discovery feature which displays all available units and courses listed in the handbook and their requirements visually on a map, making it more accessible and convenient for users. CourseFlow includes a timetable generation feature, which automatically checks your unit selections against your course rules, ensuring that you’re on track to meet your degree requirements. It also has a data analytics feature which summarizes the skills you have learnt and key information about your course progress.

Market Size

At Deakin this project has the potential to assist over 66,000 students. In the long term this project can extend further into all universities across Australia and help even more.

Call for Action

We welcome anyone with any skillset and experience. As this is a new project, we are looking for anyone willing to upskill.

Frontend

  • Related units: SIT313, SIT216
  • We are looking for at least one person who is experienced and can lead the team in frontend development tasks.
  • Looking for anyone else at any skill level that can contribute to building the website on the client side.

Backend

  • Related units: SIT331
  • Database design (SQL)
  • RESTful API

To make CourseFlow succeed, we are looking for developers and designers to join our team. We want people with experience in building a strong user interface and user experience to make sure that our product is user friendly. We also want beta testing from students and course directors to determine what can be improved on and how we go forward in the future.