CPEN321-Quizzical

Overview

CPEN321 APP
Name of Project: Project Quizzical

Team members of our Project: Jason Bai, Andrew Lance Chan, Ihsan Olawale, Yuntao Wu

Current progress

The progress is written in the sequence of implementation.

Front-end

• Login

  • Google Authentication implemented
  • Prompt user for username, email(default set to google username, email)
  • Checkbox for instructor/teacher
  • Validate username, email and upload to the server
  • Firebase push notification skeleton implemented

• Homepage

  • Basics UI setup, used tabbed layour for switching among quiz, leader board/class statistics and user profile.
  • Profile page image, username, email (change functions included) done
  • Currently leader board/class statistic page shows time and class code(+ course category)
  • Prompt user to setup/join class on first sign in
  • Multiple classes supported, user can switch between different classes
  • In the profile fragment, user can see how many classes he/she is enrolled in, how many quizzes he/she has created/done, how many EXP he/she has earned.
  • teacher class statistic board set up finished.
  • teacher leader board and statistic switching finished.
  • basic quiz/leaderboard refreshing done.(student side not tested yet)
  • quiz fragment UI finished
  • leader board/class statistic fragment UI finished
  • quizzes available, class average scores, user ranking finished.
  • class info (student info) fetching from backend

• Quiz

  • A Quiz will load a set of questions (currently only multiple choices are supported)
  • Choices can be either plain text, latex, html formatted, or image
  • Once a user click on the choice, it will change the color of the choice to highlight the selected choice.
  • After the user submits a question, they will be informed if they are correct or not. If they are incorrect, correct answer will also be highlighted.
  • After the user finishes a quiz, they will be shown how they did in the quiz.
  • The quiz result (including score and wrong question numbers) will be uploaded to the server.
  • UI and logic set up for teacher creating quiz finished
  • the wrong question ids will be sent to the server, and the students can view the questions they got wrong
  • teacher can now see how many people got wrong on each questions.

• Complex logic

  • A user is ranked by his/her overall EXP in a semester

  • The EXP for the student is calculated after each quiz is finished as follows:

    

  • The EXP for the teacher is calculated after each quiz is created EXP = BASIC_EXP, (BASIC_EXP = 10). When a student/another teacher liked the quiz, EXP += BONUS_EXP, BONUS_EXP = 5

• Other things

  • Most parts are translated in Chinese as well.
  • Some code refactored after checking with Codacy.
  • Customized buttons to be round cornered

Back-end

• Simple POST GET request handling done.
• user info (username, email, profile image, is_instructor, class taken, class statistics) mostly done
• quiz info (created quiz parsed and sent onto the server; retrive quiz from the server)
• class list and quiz modules for each class done.
• email when class created
• push notification when quiz module updated
• notification based on user selected frequency