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Learning Factory team tweaking dashboard and tool

Company: PSU Learning Factory

Major(s):
Primary: CMPSC

Non-Disclosure Agreement: NO

Intellectual Property: NO

Each semester we place approximately 500-700 students on Learning Factory project teams. The original assignments are made using an optimization algorithm. Then they are manually tweaked to improve project balance. Once those assignments are made, the faculty meet to move students around and further balance the teams. To do this, we create a giant (e.g., 750 page) PDF with all of the projects and students in it. Each project/team and student is represented by a single page in the PDF. The pages contain important information like the availability and interests of the student, etc. The PDF is currently created by an outdated Python script. For this project you will create a Dashboard that allows us to visualize the overall status of the team composition, size, etc. It will also help faculty visualize the composition of their teams, quickly identify those that need modification and allow us to easily move members across teams by trading with other faculty. We have two versions of a beta version of this tool created by teams last semester--but neither works! You can strip those projects for parts and create something that really works this semester. This is a real world problem that has the opportunity to improve the capstone experience for a large number of students (and the Director of the Learning Factory)!