Elephant Students seamlessly integrates with other Elephant and BrightSide modules. Its main purpose is to allow a Challenger to post challenges related to BrightSide entities. The Student will then be able to respond to those challenges, by itself or in a group.

Universities, deans, careers and tutors

In order to create the Students structure, some actors are essential.

The first step will be to create a University and add one or more Dean. Next, add some Career along with their Tutor.

Recognizing students

The application will recognize a potential Student because its Email connector. When creating a University we gave some domain terminations, ex. @university.edu. Whenever the user has an email ending with those termination, becomes marked as a potential Student and it's proposed to choose which careers is pursuing.

The Challengers

Platform administrators can be challengers for any Elephant or BrightSide. Each module extends the capability to be a Challenger based on how users participate.

The project challenger example

BrightSide Dossier defines as a Challenger users participating in a project. Those users are presented with a Add challenge button within the project they participate on.

What a role can see?