Augustana Course Connection

 It's the end of the term and Course Connection has been completed! The application was presented to Augustana College computer science faculty and students on May 18th. In the screenshots below, you will notice that the application's color scheme has been altered to be more identifiable as and Augustana College application: While not being the most functional development to the application, the team felt this color scheme helps the app to feel much more complete than the default android color scheme. With this new pallet, Course Connection feels like a real resource that could be available to Augustana College Students. Also new is the entirely functional and course leaderboard and forums. These two fragments are responsible for displaying the highest rated courses at Augustana College, and provide students a chatroom to discuss a given course.  The leaderboard has two spinner objects that the user can use to customize the data presented. They control the number of courses li...

      This week we aimed to implement new features that would make navigating and using the functions of our app easier for our users. We removed the action bar from the top portion of our app and replaced it with the Android widget, toolbar. This gave us the opportunity to add a variety of buttons to the top banner of the app that will be accessible from any page or activity of Course Connection. We moved the sign out button from the main screen so we were able to save some screen space for other features in the future. After a bit of discussion we decided to leave this feature of the menu bar open ended. Currently it contains the sign out button and the "My Profile" button which will take you to a screen where you are able to view all of the ratings that you have left. In the future we may add more to this toolbar. The next pieces we added were a set of drop down menus so the user is able to sort reviews by their course code. This feature also assisted us in adding...