My Student Teacher

Landing page of the My Student Teacher new website

Context

My Student Teacher is a go-to website to get private lessons from talented teachers, with a huge social impact.

The teachers are higher education students (student teachers) whose academic level is checked by My Student Teacher‘s staff through interviews and tests. They build a mentorship with their secondary school students.

Not only will the student teachers receive well-deserved and competitive compensation, but they can also benefit from networking to create career opportunities.

Initially designed with WordPress, My Student Teacher‘s tech team is currently developing a new website from scratch with the PERN stack (PostgreSQL, Express, React.js and Node.js) to have a fully tailored solution adapted to the needs of My Student Teacher, providing increased flexibility and control. I joined the team to help them reach their goals.

Media

User journey

Student teacher journey

  • Create a profile on the website to be booked by students
  • Choose subjects and be authorized to teach them
  • Browse given and upcoming lessons
  • Contact students who have taken lessons
  • Generate lesson reports to validate lessons
  • Generate and upload invoices for payment

Student journey

  • Create a profile on the website (incl. lesson needs and address) to receive student teacher suggestions
  • Browse available student teachers based on distance
  • Browse past and upcoming lessons
  • Book a lesson (online payment)
  • Contact booked student teachers
  • Rate student teachers

Admin / Staff journey

  • Dashboard summarizing key business data
  • List of site users with activity logs
  • Confirm student teacher accounts by checking provided company information
  • Track and manage teaching requests from student teachers
  • Generate payments based on student teacher invoices
  • Manage blog content

Student teacher journey

  • Create a profile on the website to be booked by students
  • Choose subjects and be authorized to teach them
  • Browse given and upcoming lessons
  • Contact students who have taken lessons
  • Generate lesson reports to validate lessons
  • Generate and upload invoices for payment

Student journey

  • Create a profile on the website (incl. lesson needs and address) to receive student teacher suggestions
  • Browse available student teachers based on distance
  • Browse past and upcoming lessons
  • Book a lesson (online payment)
  • Contact booked student teachers
  • Rate student teachers

Admin / Staff journey

  • Dashboard summarizing key business data
  • List of site users with activity logs
  • Confirm student teacher accounts by checking provided company information
  • Track and manage teaching requests from student teachers
  • Generate payments based on student teacher invoices
  • Manage blog content

Stack used

Node.js

  • Authentication: JWT
  • DB interaction: Node-postgres (pg)

Node.js

Express

PostgreSQL

AWS S3 (media storage)

React

Tailwind CSS

Git (version control)

Github (collaboration)

Core technical features

  • User privilege levels based on roles

  • Multi-step registration process adapted to user role (student / student teacher)

  • User authentication with JSON Web Token

  • User avatar upload and storage on AWS S3 with pre-signed post method

  • Admin subject management tab to search student teachers by criteria and handle open teaching requests, including notification showing number of open requests

  • Display of past and upcoming lessons in user space

  • Generation of lesson reports by the student teachers through forms

  • Generation of monthly invoices based on student teachers’ lessons of a given month

Upcoming features

Matching algorithm
Definition and implementation of the algorithm responsible for matching a student teacher profile with a student's needs
Admin KPI dashboard
Dashboard outlining key business information to help monitor and pilot the company's activities
User list
Control panel listing all users (including activity log) allowing authorized staff to manipulate user data directly in front-end
Calendar integration
Implementation of a calendar section in user account to easily see past and upcoming lessons
Blog section
New blog section with educational content updated by authorized staff (possible creation of a new user role)
Storage of invoices and legal documentation
Storage of sensitive documentation based on adapted policies/rules in AWS S3
E-payment
Implementation of a secure online payment system to book lessons