Students

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?

Role

What can see

Dean
  • The students of its university.
  • Projects (entities) they participate.
  • Responses from its students to challenges.

Tutor
  • The students pursuing its career.
  • Projects (entities) they participate.
  • Responses from its students to challenges.

Challenger, patron and partner
  • All students.
  • Projects (entities) they participate.
  • Responses from its students to challenges.

Student
  • All challenges.
  • All projects and who is participating.
  • Projects (entities) is participating.
  • His responses.
Entity viewpoint

From within an entity, the Students module provides ways of interaction, depending the user's role.


For the current example the related entity is a dossier of type Project.

Participating

A usual flow would be the student asking to participate in a project. As a result, the student will appear as a project participant and could be convocated when the project is used as convocation's entity (see Convocatòries ).


Deciding whether or not add a challenge

A challenger can add challenges despite there are or there are not, students participating. Students will see the challenges in their own challenges view. If there are students participating, the challenger will see their names and careers.


Editing the challenge

The challenger can edit the challenge by giving an unambiguous title, a rich-text description and attaching documents when required.


Deciding whether or not add a response

A student can add a response to a challenge once has read what the challenge is about.


Editing the response

The student can respond using a rich-text description, including images. Also can add other students to the response.


Challenger feedback

The final view for the challenger is a resume of all interactions and the implicated actors.


The whole interaction has been sending notifications to the interested people (see Notifications ).


Interactions


Participating


Responses


Notifications

New challenge

New response

Challenge changes

Response changes