What we propose for our final collaborative project is to create a website that will contain an online questionnaire given to students that will survey the quality of education at City Tech. Our goal is to reveal whether students are unsatisfied, complacent or even over complacent with their education and the overall teaching performance of professors. We students have all encountered professors that aren’t as enthusiastic about their jobs and as a result, we students either lose interest or aren’t as attentive.

We know that our project will be compelling because it will provide valuable insight about the schools quality of education through the feedback of students. It is important for the course because it will involve collaborating with other students in the class and most importantly will not be possible without the help of our classmates and students in the school.

Moving forward is our conceptualization of the project. Our project is broken up into three components: a home page, a questionnaire, and our results which we will keep on an excel sheet. The home page will include a brief introduction detailing what we aim to do. It will also include a link to the questionnaire page.

For the questionnaire it will be created with Google Forms. The required fields are the student’s first and last name, student’s school email address, their CUNY ID, and years they have been in City Tech. The subsequent questions will have a 5 point scale of some sort and a short paragraph box for students to add any other relevant information or additional comments. After the questionnaire is submitted, the answers will be transferred to an excel sheet which we will release to the public once we obtain a large enough sample size.

We will need to do research on coding languages primarily HTML and CSS. After learning the syntax, we will incorporate a bootstrap, edit the contents of some of the defaulted fields, and rearrange some of the aesthetics. We will also look up existing questions similar to what we’re trying to achieve that will be relevant to our questionnaire. We want to be as thorough as possible when asking questions about the quality of education while keeping it as rudimentary as possible.

Our plan for completing the project is to first brainstorm and do research on possible questions. Afterwards, we will start building our website. For the division of labor, there won’t be too many definitive tasks that each member will administer. However, if there were tasks that each member will focus more on, Rosa will compose the questions, Ogulcan will create the form and Calvin will create the website. We will all contribute together in getting exposure for our questionnaire. We will ask class mates, clubs to participate to get as large of a sample size as possible.

Our methods of communication will be through phone, Skype, emails and setting up group meetings outside of class. This includes a well balanced basis where we have a combination of synchronous and asynchronous communication.

We will learn how to communicate verbally with others and with each other from this project. We will also learn if our hypothesis is true or not. We will learn how to be better team associates and how to work in a collaborative environment.

This is what we hope to achieve with the given time frame. We will constantly make iterations as we see fit to help improve usability and accuracy of what we aim to provide.