RoutetoUni is a web-based application that is designed to help first year students studying at Newcastle University.

The application supports different pages that would to relate to questions a typical first year student would ask. The pages include Societies, Accommodation, Pubs & Clubs, Revision, News, Health, Campus Map and Chat. Along with individual pages showing information there is a trained bot that will answer any questions a user would have. The Societies, Accommodation , Pubs & Clubs, Revision and Health pages display information on flipcards. The Chat redirects to the chatrooms and the Campus redirects to a map of Newcastle with points of interest marked. A user can create an account and join a chatroom in which they will be randomly assigned with other first year students, a maximum of 10 people can join each chatroom. If a student is a peer mentor he/she is able to join different a chatroom.

To run RouteToUni locally you will need to download the required plugins that are shown in requirements.txt. The commands below are to be ran in your terminal whilst in the directory of routetouni.

pip install -r requirments.txt

followed by

docker compose up

finally run the main.py file and the website will be deployed on http://localhost:5000/.

If you do not want to run RouteToUni locally you are able to view the website at RouteToUni online.