Question Tool

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Project Description

Question Tool is a discussion tool for groups including classrooms and organizations holding meetings rooted in the Socratic method . Users are able to make posts that can be voted on or discussed by participants either with attribution or anonymously.

GitHub Repo: https://github.com/berkmancenter/question_tool

Demo instance: https://questions.dev.berkmancenter.org/

Ideal Candidate

Question Tools is written in Javascript using the Meteor.js framework. In addition to javascript the ideal candidate will have extensive experience with front-end web development technologies like CSS3, HTML5, and CSS animations. An ideal candidate will also have design experience and be familiar with mobile responsive design UX and UI best practices.

Project Goals

Here are some ideas, suggestions, and thoughts for directions you might take working on question tool for a summer. We recognize that there are many other way to make question tool better and would love to here your ideas as well.

  • Improve on the UX of the instance creation process to better articulate the constraints on an instance and what settings are best for different types of conversations.
  • Allow features to be editable by an instance owner after the creation process.
  • Improvements to to admin, owner, and mod roles.
  • Improvements to mobile UI/UX