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Bowdoin College Course Reviews

Co-Creator

A course review website to help students get the most out of their education.

Bowdoin Course Reviews collage

Overview

My junior year of college, a classmate and I noticed that the student course review website was outdated and underused. The old design made it impossible to see aggregate data on a class or professor, and the review submission process was confusing enough to prevent students from contributing.

We built a new website using React, Typescript, and Python reaching over 75% adoption within a year of launch. Over 2,000 new reviews have been added (school population is ~1,800 students) and the site is still used daily.

I owned the site architecture, UX/UI, and frontend implementation. My classmate built the API, hosted the database on AWS, and integrated with Okta.

Screenshots

Bowdoin Course Reviews homepage Bowdoin Course Reviews CSCI 1101 page Bowdoin Course Reviews professor page Bowdoin Course Reviews create review page Bowdoin Course Reviews stats Bowdoin Course Reviews department page Bowdoin Course Reviews login page

Press

Bowdoin Orient newspaper article

Check out this article featured in Bowdoin's student newspaper to learn more about the project and how it is helping students.

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