CougarGrades.io Developer updates

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🔭 Future update: Instructor search and Groups

The next planned features for CougarGrades include the “Instructors” page and another feature (temporarily) named “Groups”. These are the pages that have been greyed out and marked with a “🔒” in the navigation bar at the top of the site.

In order for these features to work as intended, certain statistics will need to be computed for the entire grades database before work can begun on the interface itself. Those statistics have been periodically worked on and are reaching completition. The goal is to have the Instructors feature available by the start of the Spring 2020 semester, which will be Monday, January 13, 2020, and the “Groups” feature completed at a later date because the current planned design is more elaborate to develop than previous areas of the site.

Site growth

Since the launch of CougarGrades in September 2019 until today, the website has received over 2800 unique visitors through organic growth. This includes positive reception on the subreddit /r/UniversityOfHouston. I am blown away with the positive feedback and I’m thankful that the UH community finds CougarGrades useful. 😄

📊 Summer 2019 grades

Summer 2019 data was received from the University of Houston and was successfully added to the database. Some downtime may have been experienced during that period.

Source data

📦 New data: Instructor and course statistics

Database upgrades have been completed. Site functionality may have been affected during the upload time into the hosted database. For more information, see the cougargrades importer.

The database upgrade was to compute some simple statistics for all courses and instructors. These computed statistics are anticipated to be used in future site updates.

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