[UI idea] Ask teacher for class info

[Felienne]

If teachers make a class and add students, they don't need to provide any student personal info (which is good, allowing for GDPR safe usage of Hedy!) but... we don't have any info about the students (like age, gender) to do analysis with, which is sad for us, because we want to understand what school types and ages use Hedy.

My first proposal is to ask teachers, when they sign up, a few simple questions:

• What is the age range in your group?
• What is the estimated gender balance in your group?
• Are you a school or a code club?
• Is participation mandatory or voluntarily?
• What is the dominant natural language in explanations?
• What is the dominant natural language in keywords?(pertaining to the examples they use, not necessarily what kids use in the class)

And simply drop this extra info in the database. Over time this will help us understand the user base better!

[Felienne]

Hi @hasan-sh!

This is a relative simple issue I think that maybe you are interested to pick up in between other tasks?

[hasan-sh]

I like this. It will help us exponentially later!! For instance, suggest adventures that target similar groups (assuming we have the tags idea of adventures implemented) or even grouping public classes if we even make the choice to make a marketplace of classes where students can join and benefit from; just like public adventures for teachers to reuse!

[Felienne]

I like this. It will help us exponentially later!!

Yes, I think so too! Also in terms of data analysis

For instance, suggest adventures that target similar groups (assuming we have the tags idea of adventures implemented) or

even grouping public classes if we even make the choice to make a marketplace of classes where students can join and benefit from; just like public adventures for teachers to reuse!

I love both of these ideas a lot! Like: here is a preset class for 8 graders with all the nice adventures! We cuold even author a few of those ourselves to get people going!

Maybe we should make issues for these so we don't forget them down the road?

[Felienne]

In term of the UX, this will be tricky since there is tension between nog annoying teachers and gathering useful info. Maybe we can use a landing page or popup after class creating asking:

Do you have time to answer some questions, it would help us a lot? With options: yes, ask me later and never?

And we definitely want to save each answers as they type it so we can also save half completed surveys.

[Annelein]

Hey! I was also looking into this issue.

I agree, when a teacher account is being created, there are already a lot of questions. But also, a teacher might teach different classes, so I was thinking maybe we could split these questions to creating a teacher account and when creating a new class:

• What is the age range in your group?
• What is the estimated gender balance in your group?

When creating a new class

• Are you a school or a code club?

When creating a teacher account

• Is participation mandatory or voluntarily?
• What is the dominant natural language in explanations?
• What is the dominant natural language in keywords?(pertaining to the examples they use, not necessarily what kids use in the class)

When creating a new class

Curious what you think of this!
@hasan-sh are you working on it already? In case you are not, I also find it an interesting start of working on Hedy :)

[Felienne]

This could be a great first issue for you @anneanne! @hasan-sh has some other things to work on I think.

And I like the idea of splitting the questions, smart!

We have to think a bit about edge cases though, some shool, teachers also run code clubs. Maybe when they have filled out details and then create a new class, we ask them if his class follows their previous answer?

But that could come later!

[Annelein]

I have created a draft pull request, I thought before adding tests it would be nice to know if this is how we want it!

• The survey view can take x questions.
• Only unanswered questions are shown and if the survey is skipped, it won't be shown again.
• It pops up when a class contains students. (If someone can tell me how I can make it a fade in pop up that would be great!)
• Questions are saved under the Classes table

Two questions:

• Do we want it more generic? (Creating a Survey table so any survey's in the future will be easily implemented)
• It's my first contribution so any tips on better practices or better/cleaner code etc are very very welcome :)