A grade tracking app, created by failures, for failures.

Ok, but seriously, the primary goal of the app is to calculate minimum grades needed to pass a given class.

• Course

  • Each course will contain a name, subject, date of enrollment, expected end of enrollment, and minimum grade required to pass as a number (anything below the number will be considered a fail)
    • For now, things like prerequisites will not need to be implemented
  • Users shall be able to create courses
  • Users shall be able to input assignments/projects/exams/etc. into a given course
  • The minimum grade can be treated as the "desired grade", or perhaps it may be a better idea to have a separate number for the "desired grade" (the grade the user wants to achieve, which may be above the actual minimum for the course itself)
  • With the set of submittables defined by the user, calculate the current expected grade in the course as a number out of 100
    • The user may be able to choose whether to display it as a letter grade or as a number

• Submittable (assignment, project, exam, etc.)

  • Each submittable will contain a name, a description (optional), when the assignment was assigned, due date, a weight, max grade, and achieved grade
    • Additionally, things that help categorization such as what unit/chapter the submittable belongs to could be something to consider implementing, maybe later down the line
  • If a submittable has yet to have a grade input, calculate how much the user needs to achieve in order to not fail the course

• Calculating Lowest Grade

  • By lowest possible grade spread across all incomplete assignments
  • By prioritizing higher weight assignments
    • Perhaps let the user specify the minimum cutoff weight in which an assignment should be considered
      • Any other assignment with a weight less than the one set by the user will be ignored from lowest grade calculations (i.e. treated as having a grade of 0 already)
  • If an assignment is already complete:
    • Find next highest weighted assignment and do some magic? If there are multiple assignments of equal weight then maybe balance the lowest grade into all of those.
    • Ignore the rest?

• Add relation between Course and Submittable so that Submittables aren't orphaned when a Course is deleted
• Come up with a way to centralize field validation UI code if they operate on the same shared layout (e.g. CourseForm or SubmittableForm)