Overview

What is Bubify?

Bubify is a web application with two main components: queue management and progress tracking.

The purpose of the queue management component is to handle students queueing to get access to teachers or teaching assistants (TAs) in a lab session: students add themselves to a queue, teachers and TAs can see who is queuing, where the students are seated, and what they want help with, and claim entries in the queue in any order. Students can see who else is queueing and their place in the queue.

The progress tracking component has been constructed with mastery learning in mind, but is general enough to work with any kinds of assignments or tasks. Here, students are supposed to demonstrate mastery of some goals (about 50–70 in the course for which Bubify was originally developed), and can track their progress and velocity. A special version of the queue management component is used to request and manage demonstrations, and at the end of a demonstration, teachers and TAs record goal fulfilment in a simple and efficient workflow, and results become visible to the students immediately.

Who is using Bubify?

Bubify is used by several courses in computer science at Uppsala Univeristy, serving 1000+ students so far.

Some comments from course evaluations (*) when students where asked to point out good aspects of the course:

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Bubify. Awesome Bubify. It has been so incredibly satisfying to see my progress all the time ...

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Bubify, have all courses use one for presentations and assistance. So much better than all the other options I've come across ...

* = translated from Swedish and updated old name to current

What Does the Word Bubify Mean?

The latin word for the Eurasian eagle-owl is Bubo bubo and Bubify is simply a nominalization in honour of this beautiful animal.