Idea
All students love student discounts! We wanted to create a way for students to be able to share popular student discounts with each other.
Team
My friend, Randy Nguyen, and I both had little experience with HTML and no experience with API’s at the time. We had heard that there was a hackathon at GVSU & weren’t about to pass on that! We decided to enter the HTML category & learn HTML as the day went on. What better way to learn a new language than to code?
Solution
We developed a module for the student’s blackboard homepage. Students were able to look through different categories of student discounts and see the student discount that was available as well as visit that business’s website. We used HTML to show the different category dropdowns on Blackboard. We then linked to a Google Form to allow students to submit new student discounts. We used a Google Form because it would allow the faculty the easily edit the questions and almost all college students are familiar with Google Forms.
Result
Our team, Blackboard Modhack, won third place in the HTML category!
