Hey everybody, my partner @alex and I have been working on a tool for teachers to track student progress against a set of skills identified by Dr. Janet Mort. The goal of her 25 years of research has been to get students to read at grade level by the end of second grade, and her success is overwhelming. For the past few years, she has been leading summits to describe her methods. The past 10 or so summits have had between 700 and 1000 teachers each, so her methodology is being widely adopted!
Until now, teachers had no way of digitally tracking the work against Dr. Mortās tactics. With the launch of www.joyfulliteracy.com, they now can! The link will take you to her home page that has all sorts of info. If you want to check out the app itself, click the link called āCircle Charts Onlineā and register for a free trial.
Congratulations on the launch @potentialthings and @alex! The app looks amazing!! Just signed up for a trial and that circle-chart functionality is so sleek! So awesome to see an education-focused app built entirely on Bubble. Congrats guys!!!
Hey everybody, quick update on how things are going with the app.
Current monthly users: 222, most in Trail phase still ($5 per user per month for US users, $6 per user per month for Canadian users)
āEnterpriseā users waiting enrollment: ~210 ($50 per user annually for US, $60 per user annually for Canada)
Student ratings made so far: 1794
Bug Reports: 3 (1 unable to reproduce, 2 resolved)
Most Popular Browser: Chrome
36% Windows users, 32% MacOS users, 25% iOS users
Mondays and Fridays are our busiest days
September Workflow Runs: ~5500 (not accurate, since the Bubble team refreshed everybodyās count for September)
I donāt know if this info is helpful for the community, but I thought Iād share so yāall can get a sense of what one Bubble production app looks like. Our goal is to get to 500 paying users. October has 2 very large summits where the app will be part of the keynote presentation in front of 700-1000 teachers, so weāre hoping to see a big spike of signups. All in all, weāre really happy with how things are shaping up, and weāre really happy with how Bubble is holding up. We feel really great about having Bubble be the backbone for our business. Onward!
Great stuff, really like the circles and the ease of use. Is there a way to look at the tutorial again after the initial login? Iām thinking of doing this for my app but not sure if its needed. However, I clicked through it in your app but now find myself wanting to read it againā¦
I actually email those instructions after their first login and when they went through the ātutorialā so they can always reference it through email but maybe relaunching the tutorial might be a good solution too.
I like the feedback questions too, you are really trying to include users in upgrading the app. Nice!
One more thing. I noticed that the app isnt responsive, but in 1920px the screen looks like this to me:
Thanks for checking it out! The main page of the app is not responsive, and hereās why: the original content was supplied by Dr. Janet Mort, and she has handmade 20-ish sheets of these skills. They are grouped intentionally and she was opposed to breaking them out any different. It was critical to have each skill on one row for each student, so we had to make the main page super wide since there wasnāt a way to make a container that scrolled horizontally, without scrolling the whole page. It was a super big bummer for us, but not much we could do about it
Regarding the tutorial, thereās not currently a way to re-trigger it, but we could definitely add it back.
Thanks for the suggestion! Weāll have an update rolling out soon, we can get that in there pretty easily.
The next rollout offers tools for School and District administrators. After that, weāre working on some reporting functionality to answer three key questions:
For the enterprise users waiting enrollment. What are they waiting for? For you to iron out bugs?
Thanks so much for sharing your work. Great work, thatās so useful (Iām a teacher).
I hear you about keeping the concept of Dr. Mort intact. And yes, itās slightly awkward to have it scroll like thatā¦ HOWEVER, this is your first release! Iām sure over time, youāll continue to iterate and improve step by step The important point is that this tool will be useful to teachers (like me!)
Thanks for the feedback! The enterprise users were waiting for the ability to buy licenses at a school or district level, rather than on an individual level. Basically, we will soon let them buy 60 seats for their school, then add teachers to the school and just have it work like magic. The functionality is all done and just going through some testing to make sure itās ready to go.
Thatās awesome Very exciting! Iām also working in edTech After years of unhappy results with programmers hired to make this and that, I stumbled upon Bubble. Iāll drop you a line when I finish with mine.
We shut the app down last summer when the owner of the IP retired. We did NOT use subapps. We had a hierarchy that allowed us to sell to a District, a School, or one-off users. Everybody used the same domain and app.
Congrats guys!!!
