Week 3

    It is week three of our development of Course Connection. We are at the point in the semester where we will need to really kick our work into gear and focus on each aspect of our app as the deadlines begin to approach. This week we are wrapping up the tech tutorials we mentioned last week in our blog. With these out of the way, a majority of class time will now be used to discuss the project and get work done. 

    The progress of our project will be tracked by both our updates here on our blog, as well as our code updates on our team Github repository. This week we made our first set of pushes onto our repository with some introductory features of our app. One of these core functions is limiting user access to users with a augustana.edu email address. Since this is an app developed for use by Augie students, we want their voices to be the only ones present. Part of the problem we saw with other services with similar function to our app was that anyone could login and write a review about any teacher from any school. By limiting the ability to leave and read reviews, we are hoping to create some accountability for the users for constructive and fair reviews.

    This is the initial version of the UI that we have set up. We have included some "hint" text within our login text boxes to show the user they must have an augustana email address to access the rest of the app features. While this feature is limited for now as we have not yet connected our app to a database, the basic functionality is there for a login screen, Until we connect a database where we can hold usernames and passwords for each profile, we will use basic usernames and passwords like "user1" and "admin" to test the app. 

    Over the course of this week, we will begin to set up the main screen UI for the rest of the app. Once past the login screen, users will be taken to the home screen where they can access a variety of different pages for the different functions of the app.