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Many people don't know about the unofficial multifunctional York iOS app by @Aayush9029.

It would be good if you could please add a link from the https://yorku.dev/#projects page to its homepage.

The homepage, in turn, includes links for users to download the app and to file issues.

Thank you!

I think it'd be good if SSADC became an officially-registered club with YU Connect / SCLD.

Benefits

This would allow us and/or our work to become more discoverable:

• We would get a club listing on the YU Connect website.
• We could do tabling during club fair. This happens at least once a year.
• We could do tabling in Central Square during random days.

When tabling, maybe we could bring a laptop and a monitor. We could show an infinitely-looping video demonstrating the cool things we've made. Video can help to attract eyeballs and new users. Hopefully the monitor will work well at the club fair, even if there's direct sunlight. Maybe we could also borrow a monitor and/or a projector from the school.

Being registered might also let club members to have their membership status listed on their Co-Curricular record.

We can get registered with SCLD by filling in this form.

Timing

New club registration is only possible every year between May and September. (Source.)

Conclusion

What are your thoughts?

If SSADC gets registered with YU Connect / SCLD, we can optionally register with Lassonde next.

Benefits

The Lassonde website writes that the benefits of Lassonde club registration are:

• Club funding.
• Room booking privileges in the Bergeron building.
• Bergeron project and storage space, if available. (Source.)

Steps

• Registering with YU Connect / SCLD.
• Finding a faculty advisor.
• Getting Lassonde club approval. Kayla Lascasas might be able to grant this.
• There are more steps listed here.

Conclusion

What are your thoughts?

I think it'd be good if SSADC became an officially-registered club with YFS.

Benefits

Benefits may include:

• Free graphic design: a logo, poster, flyer, banner, business card, and maybe more.
• One free vinyl banner per year.
• $125 of free photocopying and poster printing per year.
• 100 free club business cards per year.
• Possible funding. Maybe up to $300 of base funding per year. Plus, possibly up to $800 if we want to run an event (e.g. a hackathon).
• Borrowing some items from YFS for free, including event tents, water coolers, and game consoles. (It's fun to have game consoles handy during a hackathon.)
• Other free help.

More information on these possible benefits is here.

The form

Registering a club with YFS requires filling in an online form.

Conclusion

What are your thoughts?

Many people don't know about the YorkURMP extension for Chrome and Firefox. It modifies the York Courses website to include Rate My Professors ratings for many (but not all) professors.

It would be good if you could please add a link from the https://yorku.dev/#projects page to the relevant Chrome Web Store page. Firefox users, I guess, would then be on their own.

This was discussed elsewhere, six months ago, but nothing ever came of it.

I thank you all, for all the valuable volunteer work that you do for your fellow students!

Cc: @mahfoozm.

Dear all:

For various reasons, some people might want to communicate with SSADC without using Discord. GitHub issues are one possibility, but they're not always the best choice.

I wonder if you could please enable the "GitHub Discussions" feature?

This is easy to do. You can simply:

• Go to https://github.com/SSADC-at-york/yorku-dev/settings.
• Scroll down.
• Click the green "Set up discussions" button.
• Scroll down again.
• Click the green "Start discussion" button.

What are your thoughts?

Thank you for reading this!

Hi all!

Background

The York Courses website (CDM) already offers a "Historical Course Search" tool. Sadly, it doesn't display any instructor information.

My idea

It'd be great if you could please create a website which does the following:

• Caches all "Active Course Timetables by Faculty" on a web server.
• Lets me enter a course code.
• Tells me:
  • Timing: In which years and semesters has this course run?
  • Delivery: Was it online or in-person?
  • Instructors: Who taught the course? Who ran the tutorials?
  • And, optionally: What are their Rate My Professors ratings?

Possible use cases

• Adam is thinking of enrolling in winter HLST 1010 (Intro to Health Studies). Although an instructor has already been chosen, they haven't been given a contract yet, and so their name isn't shown online. Adam wants to know who will likely teach the course. He wants to see who taught it for the past three winters, in order to help him make a prediction.
• Bailey is considering delaying taking PSYC 3140 (Psychological Health, Distress, & Impairment) until the summer. She wants to know if it's usually offered every summer.
• Chad wants to verify that SOWK 2035 (Current Issues in Mental Health) has only ever been offered as an online course.

Notes

Active course timetables are available for LA&PS, for Lassonde, and for other faculties. Additional timetables are on the York Courses website. All timetables use a kludgy encoding called UTF-16. On a few nights, the York server glitches, and we may get a truncated or wonky timetable.

Ideally, our new website should cache all active timetables early each winter semester. If it happens too late, all F and Y course information may already have been purged from the active timetable. I've saved up some old active timetables which I can send you, if necessary.

Old timetables are still available on the server. Unfortunately, all of FW22 has been purged to remove all F and Y courses. (Example.)

Security

York wants to try to restrict angry gunmen from waltzing into Women's Studies classes. In order to support this restriction, maybe the site should verify that I'm a student before it lets me do any searches. Do Passport York and/or Shibboleth offer OAuth to external websites?

Edit: Actually, a simpler solution would be for the website to just hide all classroom information for current-year courses.

Conclusion

A.) What are your thoughts?

B.) Would you be interested in helping to write such a tool?

Many people don't know about the unofficial iOS York U Maps app.

Please consider adding a link from the https://yorku.dev/#projects page to its App Store page. You could call it "iOS York Maps".

It costs 99 cents. I've never tried it; I don't own an iOS device. But it seems to have good ratings.

Thank you!