Career Scouter documentation
Career Scouter
Description
Career Scouter is a tool created with Next.js aimed to help students to evaluate their Career path choices and do a quiz for teachers to create course content according to their needs. All career path data is loaded from external JSON files to easily change the data presented on the site, to stay updated and easily maintained.
Career Scouter has a comprehensive layout for easy navigation and easily changed elements to allow different schools to easily add their own logos and content to the site, with as little trouble as possible.
Features
- FEA01: Career Quiz where students do the career path quiz which answers is collected by Career Scouter and passed to PowerBi/PowerAutomate.
- FEA02: Career Paths page where all career paths are listed to learn about them.
- FEA03: Multilingual Site layout for both Finnish and English students. More languages can be added if needed.
- FEA04: PowerBi / PowerAutomate used to go through the data and represent it to teachers.
- FEA05: Navigation Bar to ease site usage.
- FEA06: Branding option to allow custom branding.
- FEA07: Search bar for career paths page to search for specific career paths
- FEA08: Database link for possibility to fetch career paths from external database
- FEA09: User Authetication to control possible spam and responses made by unauthorized users.
Goal
Career Scouter's primary objective is to offer an all-encompassing set of tools for students to assess their prospective career options and determine the most fitting path for themselves. By gathering data from form submissions, teachers gain insight into students' needs and desires during their educational journey, enabling them to tailor course content accordingly. In an era characterized by constantly evolving careers and interests, Career Scouter aims to mitigate the resulting chaos and facilitate the development of flexible study paths for students.
Project Team
| Name | Responsibility | Company/Community |
|---|---|---|
| Lauri | Coder | Pengwin Media |
| Stas | Coder | Pengwin Media |
| Ankita | Coder & UI designer | Pengwin Media |
| Menom | Tester | Pengwin Media |