https://attendance-demo1.edtechapps.com/ is an attendance system for a school allowing school admin to add classes and teachers, and allowing teachers to take attendance of students. Budget option for small schools. *Login/Demo available on demand
Author: hcanning
Fun engagement with edtech apps
Allow users to query your knowledgebase about interesting aspects of the edtech you support. Query by category. See https://fun-info.edtechapps.com/ . *Login/Demo available on demand
Gen AI Demo – Query custom knowledgebase with ChatGPT
Visit gen-ai-demo.edtechapps.com and query a pre-uploaded knowledge base item like U2. Choose between a concise, medium and detailed response. Serach just queries the uploaded knowledgebase
So where should I host Drupal and WordPress sites for HigherEd?
I like Panteon for Drupal and WPEngine for WordPress. The Dev/Staging/Prod environments at Patheon for Drupal are very useful. Pantheon also is very good for WordPress but WPEngine is just superior in my book. In particular I like how WPEngine integrates with Cloudflare and their involvement with the plugin I use most, ACF. My favorite,…
Voice AI agents for developers
Check out https://vapi.ai/ to help with AI help desk enrollment!
TMDB API
Check out my APP at Netlify showing how to use the TMDB API (The Movie Database)
DevConnector – MERN
Check out my DevConnector app on at Render
What’s my initial take on AI for Higher Ed?
Kudos to AI… it really is amazing. I can see AI helping with a lot of the routine Help Desk, coding and config issues and making web development faster but you will need highly skilled people to oversee it, orient it and know where it’s going wrong. AI is prone to “hallucinations” (or should I…
Drupal2go.com for Paragraphs Module and WordPress for ACF
Here’s a theme I built exclusively for using the Paragraphs module . It’s a module extremely useful for higher ed websites. I used this module at Tufts Uni in Boston. I do however prefer working with ACF for WordPress or Grid for ExpressionEngine. See the code for 38 Paragraph components/bundles at Drupal2go.com and https://portfolio-wp1.hcann.com/ for…
Random Users API
Check out https://users-api1.pages.dev/ using the https://randomuser.me/