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Biazza is a forum style web application that provides an efficient mean for Professor-Student communication. Examples of similar forums can be Piazza, Campuswire, NYUClasses forum.

The application aims to help Professors to clarify course related contents that students do not really understand and to help student who share similar questions to brought up their questions to the Professor's attention.

From the perspective of the end-user, there are two types of user roles. Namely, instructor and student. The instructor is able to create a course forum, invite students, view all the questions raised by students, reply to posts or mark the answers from students as official answers. The student can participate in a class by post questions to class forum, reply to an existing question, endorse useful answers as well as unendorsed not-so-useful answers.

The demo is composed of a series of wireframe diagrams.

Please visit the demo page for more detail.

Please ensure you have MongoDb installed on your machine.

• Start up MongoDb server.
• Start up the backend
• Start the frontend by
  • cd into the front-end folder
  • type npm install command
  • type npm start command
• Start the backend by
  • cd into the back-end folder
  • create a .env file using any editor and paste the secret content supplied by us.
  • type npm install command
  • type npm start command

• cd into the back-end folder
• type npm install command
• type npm test command

The Biazza project was originally proposed by Jiaqi Liu and Lingyi Ju. Inspired by the easy-to-use forums such as Stack Overflow, Piazza, and Campuswire, Jiaqi and Lingyu sought an opportunity to provide realize a full-stack web application that integrates the characteristics of the above user-friendly forums.

Basic Thunder is the team that is responsible for realizing the Biazza proposal. This team is formed by a group of bright students in the Agile Software Development and DevOps course at NYU.

Please visit the Contribution page for more detail.

Here is a list of websites that we have considered when designing and implementing the functionalities of this Biazza project:

• NYUClasses
• Piazza
• Campuswire
• Stack Overflow

(sorted by last name)

• Sylvia Ji
• Jiaqi Liu
• Chris Molina