MIT NoteShare

Sabina Chen • Maya Sankar

6.UAT Fall 2018

Most Students Need Course Notes

Problem: Not all classes have lecture notes!

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Missed Lecture

Clarifying Material

Different Learning Styles

Where To Find Course Notes At MIT

1. Check Class Website
2. Course Textbook
3. Past Iterations of the Class, OCW or MITx
4. Google / Other Online Materials�…
5. Ask a friend

Our Goal: Increase availability of notes by creating a centralized platform on which students are incentivized to share their lecture notes.

Proposed Solution:

MIT NoteShare

A Centralized Note-Sharing Website

Students Want To Use It!

• Collaborative learning
• Positive ratings
• Potential department- or class-�specific incentives

Tools Required

• Storage
• Use an Athena locker
• Server and Domain
• Use SIPB’s scripts service to get a lockername.scripts.mit.edu address
• Kerberos Authentication
• Also comes with SIPB’s scripts service

Risks

• Not Enough Storage Space
• Get an Athena locker from IS&T
• Plagiarism
• Make reporting easy and take reported files down immediately
• Empowers Students to Skip Class
• Existing problem
• Student-written lecture notes are not a reliable substitute for lecture
• Malicious Users

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Dealing With Malicious Users

Bad user: tries to upload a blank PDF to get extra credit�Our fix: preview pages before downloading system; rating system

Bad user: posts an exam that not everyone has taken�Our fix: button to report inappropriate use of the site

Bad user: spams system by repeatedly uploading fake notes�Our fix: deny that kerberos access

** Kerberos authentication also forces accountability and limits the number of malicious users **

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Milestones

Start User Testing!

Start User Testing!

Timeline

MIT NoteShare:

Giving students the tools they need to succeed!

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