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CoFlow aims to create a vibrant learning community where students can collaborate effectively. Users can:

• Browse groups by category or create their own with customized parameters.
• Connect via personalized profiles, direct messaging, and integrated calendars.
• Engage in a rewarding experience with ratings, badges, and achievements.

By leveraging PWA capabilities, CoFlow ensures accessibility and a native-like experience on mobile devices, making it easy for students to study together anytime, anywhere.

• Tingting Luan
• Xuan Wu
• Deming Tracy
• Vaibhav Achuthananda

• User Accounts & Profiles:
  • Personalized profiles with:
    • Name/Username
    • Academic interests and subjects
    • Profile picture and brief bio
    • Custom calendar view of schedules (Private/Public)
• Progressive Web App (PWA):
  • Deployable as a standalone iOS/Android app for a native-like experience.

• Group Recommendations:
  • Dashboard displaying available groups with clear indicators for:
    • Group availability
    • Capacity
    • Scheduling details
• Group Management:
  • Intuitive group creation wizard for organizers to:
    • Create, edit, and delete groups
    • Customize settings for group size, participant requirements, duration, and time preferences
  • Post-session rating system for constructive feedback

• Group Communication:
  • Built-in chat feature for group members, tentatively powered by Utterances (a free/open-source tool built on GitHub Issues API).
• Conflict Detection:
  • Prevents users from joining groups with conflicting time slots, inspired by Workday’s course scheduling system.
• Visual Indicators:
  • Dynamic tags (e.g., #one-on-one, #study-group, #gaming, #music-practice) to indicate group type at a glance.
• Email Notifications:
  • Customizable reminders for events, sent via email at user-specified times.

• Intricate Search Capabilities:
  • Search for groups/events by study topics.
  • Filter by preferences such as course, time, and group size.
  • Display search results of users studying similar topics.

• Fun Badges:
  • Awarded for consistent participation and helpfulness, based on ratings.
  • Optional public study achievements on user profiles.

• Platform Administration:
  • Super user capabilities for moderation and community guideline enforcement.
  • Analytics dashboard for group organizers to track engagement and performance.

• Map Embedding:
  • Integrated search bar for setting event locations using Google Maps.
  • Displays a basic map view during group creation and on group detail pages.
• Chat Translate:
  • Multi-language chat support with right-click translation for messages.
• Business Integration:
  • Support for business accounts to create study events (e.g., a coffee shop advertising study hours from 1-2 PM on Tuesdays).

• User Login/Signup:
  • Secure signup/login with email, username, password.
  • Password recovery and account verification.
• User Profiles:
  • Personalized profiles with name, academic interests, profile picture, bio.
  • Custom calendar view (Private/Public).
  • Public study achievements and badges.
• Admin:
  • Moderation tools for community guidelines.
  • Analytics dashboard for user engagement.

• Business Profiles:
  • Business accounts with name, logo, location (Google Maps).
  • Study event creation (e.g., study sessions at coffee shops).
• Admin:
  • Approval and moderation of business accounts/events.
  • Analytics for business event engagement.

• Group Search:
  • Search groups by study topics, with filters for course, time, size.
  • Dashboard with group recommendations.
• Group Creation:
  • Group creation wizard for size, duration, topics, location (Google Maps).
  • Edit/delete groups and post-session ratings.
  • Conflict detection for scheduling.

• Group Communication:
  • Built-in chat using Utterances.
  • Real-time messaging and file sharing.
• Chat Translate:
  • Right-click message translation for multi-language support.
• Email Notifications:
  • Customizable event reminders via email.
• Visual Indicators:
  • Tags (e.g., #study-group, #one-on-one) for session types.

• Frontend: HTML, CSS, Express
• Integrations: Cloudinary for image upload, Google Maps API for locations.
• Backend: Node.js, MongoDB.

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