Update #36
Vallyre and Lauren went over front-end Github issues to tackle ahead of August Spark Day. Looking forward to sharing this project at the event!
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Durham School Navigator is web application tool to help parents understand the different public schools in Durham County and make informed schooling decisions. Durham School Navigator provides a common and easy-to-use platform for all public schools to share information about themselves with parents. The mapping web app provides a way to
In addition the school profile survey to school principals, provides a common and easy-to-use platform for all public schools to share information about themselves with parents. Explore the sample school profile here
We have partnered with Durham Public Schools (DPS) to have them directly link to durhamschoolnavigator.org vs. the current mapping tool.
Durham Charter Collaborative, Durham PTA Council, and DPS are supporting Code for Durham in launching the School Navigator and the principal survey for the school profiles.
The code base for School Navigator is located at https://github.com/codefordurham/school-navigator. The README file shows links to documentation.
Vallyre and Lauren went over front-end Github issues to tackle ahead of August Spark Day. Looking forward to sharing this project at the event!
At the 1/31 meeting, Nicole and Lauren reviewed Lauren’s updated designs based on the outcome of usability testing with new CfD members, Sanchit and Lina.
The website was down as a result of the certificate being expired so we were unable to do any work directly on the site. It has since been updated.
Looking forward to getting the group together in the coming weeks to keep pushing forward on this initiative!
At the 12/13 meeting, Basia worked on converting profile change recommendations into Github issues. Jeremy, Alex, Nicole and Lauren discussed immediate next steps for the project. Lauren, Basia and newcomer Vallyre went over the profile design change recommendations.
Immediate next steps (thanks Nicole!):
Task | Owner |
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Email Chip (DPS) and Lisa (Charter School Collaborative) to give update; Provide list of schools who have not participated | Nicole |
Add in teacher satisfaction links | Nicole |
Assess state of ancillary pages (i.e. not profile pages) to determine what needs to be changed | All |
Remove the “alpha” | |
Work on inputting updates to profile page from usability testing | Basia, Lauren |
Work on revised profile page design mockups | Vallyre, Lauren |
Identify marketing opportunities | All |
Fix the map feature on the updated profile pages | Victor |
Look into Spanish translation options | Alex |
Work on accessibility assessment | Lauren |
Remove 'Sample DPS school' from school names in the updated profile pages | |
QA Testing on mobile | All |
Bendte, Basia, and Kesley, have gone through the screen capture and various people's notes from usability testing sessions on the school profile page, and we have combined them into a recommendations document.
Kesley will start turning those bullet points into GitHub issues. Bendte and Basia will help as needed, and anyone else is welcome to jump in. So hopefully we can start getting some of this stuff done.
Great work today by all - thanks to everyone for joining!
To date, 18 schools have at least begun to fill in their profile! We're excited for more responses to trickle in. Specific updates below:
— Victor worked on fixing the photo upload features - in the coming days he plans to update the survey such that schools can upload the photo themselves. — Nicole will send an update to the reminder email to include the note about photos - the reminder is planned to go out next meeting (7/26) to give appropriate time for people who haven't started to get the survey in. (Currently due 7/29) — Basia, Bendte, and Lauren were doing a "card sorting" design exercise to help enhance the user experience on the website. — Lauren Hirsch and John Fredrickson got added to the github. — Alex and John were working on integrating the charter listing page to link to/be consistent with the other school listings. — Seth followed up to get a codeforamerica domain for an email address for the project team. — Jeremy worked on a link from the mini-profile to main profile on the search results. — David continued to assess NCDPI data.
Thanks to all!
We launched the School Profile Survey to DPS tonight!!!
Victor, Rolf, and Jeremy fixed issues blocking survey launch
Seth and Nicole uploaded all public school principal email addresses in preparation for survey launch
Tonight was Sarah's last night at Code for Durham, Thank You for all you have done for the School Navigator project. We wish you the best and will miss you.
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to Schools. This can be used to add state data to schools.TODO:
Cleaned up, tested, and fixed issues for Phase 2:
We met today and got a lot done, including:
Outstanding items for launch: More QA & Testing!
There's a sample schools: https://durhamschoolnavigator.org/#/school/247/ You can set your email to the principal email. Send yourself a survey. Fill it out. We will be using that sample school as a demo in our meeting next Tuesday at 9am….
Sarah, Colin, and Jeremy also had a productive meeting with DPS this week. Here are the notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ua4pjyQsF8Ujqj7y0LkruMf5rNvrYuuUjz5yfqh5xWQ/edit
We will be at the meeting of school principals next week to demo the project and ask for everyone to fill out the survey.
Lot's of new backlog items on waffle
Updates for the week:
mega props for megamilestones, team!
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