About DOELT

The Hawaii Department of Education supports our state by promoting student achievement and fostering educational excellence while ensuring equal access for all. The DOE's Innovation, Planning, and Evaluation Branch manages the department's legislative initiatives. Legislative initiatives are currently handled using a system called IBM Lotus Notes. Our application, DOE Legislative Tracker, or DOELT, modernizes the DOE's outdated tracking system by introducing a modern user interface and improving the access and usability of the system. Because DOELT is a web application, it can be accessed from any location and from any device that is connected to a network.

Lessons

In addition to the technical knowledge, we have also acquired organizational and time management skills throughout our development process, while becoming familiar with the prerequisites and key components of the application. Understanding our users and how we can create an application where they can be productive was crucial. Lastly, planning and prototyping an entire application was something that some of us did not have experience with, so this project was very rewarding.

What’s Next for DOELT - DOE Legislative Tracker

The next step is building multiple levels of administrative authority, which will provide users in various positions or offices access to different application features. Additionally, we need a stronger and more comprehensive management plan for both the system and the users. To be more explicit, the administrator should have the ability to add new accounts for users, change their roles as needed, and delete accounts when users are no longer employed. The dashboard on the homepage could also be improved to give users a more customized experience depending on their role.

How to Use the App

1. Clone the GitHub repository to your computer.
2. Make sure that you have meteor installed, a guide can be found here.
3. Next, cd into the app/ directory of your local copy of the repo, and install third party libraries with: meteor npm install
4. Run the system with: meteor npm run start
5. Go to http://localhost:3000 to see the app.

Credentials for Development Environment

1. id: assigner, password: changeme
2. id: writer, password: changeme
3. id: officeapv, password: changeme
4. id: pipeapv, password: changeme
5. id: finalapv, password: changeme
6. id: submitter, password: changeme

Links

• Deployed Website
• DevPost
• Functional Evaluation Video
• GitHub repositories used while building this application:
  • Original
  • Production

Team Members

• Ana Araujo
• Giorgio Tran
• Kayla Hirano
• Rob Godfrey
• Shin Saito

Built with the UH ICS Meteor Template