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Flutter meetup @ Gynzy

On Thursday, April 11th, Gynzy hosted a Flutter Holland meetup at our office in ‘s-Hertogenbosch. One of my colleagues delivered an insightful presentation titled “Not Your Average Flutter Migration: Moving From a Complex Web App to a Multi-Platform Flutter App.

To conclude the presentation, we showcased an interactive quiz that I hosted, demonstrating the interactivity within our Flutter app. The quiz performed flawlessly for the developer audience in attendance.

Arie hosting interactive quiz

Preview the Quiz

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Gynzy open question tool

As an extension to our interactive quiz tool, we introduced an Open Question feature for students to respond to open-ended questions from the teacher.

Here’s how it works:

  • Teachers launch an Open Question session directly from the Gynzy board.
  • Students answer on their own devices, like Chromebook or iPads.
  • Responses appear live on the whiteboard, providing real-time feedback.

Personal contributions

Collaborating with my colleagues, I:

  • added the open question functionality to the Gynzy student app, building upon the foundation laid by the interactive quiz.
  • Developed the Open Question teacher tool as a web component, enabling teachers to manage their open-ended questions on the Gynzy board.

Used frameworks: Flutter, Lit Element, Ember

For more information (in Dutch) visit:
https://www.gynzy.com/nl-nl/blog/activeer-je-klas-met-de-open-vraag-tool

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Gynzy interactive quiz released

Today we released the interactive quiz, an important addition to Gynzy.

The key features are:

  1. Teachers can craft their own quiz questions, including text and images.
  2. Students can join the quiz on their own devices (via the Gynzy app or a web browser). This app is developed in Flutter.
  3. Teachers can start interactive sessions in the Gynzy board, invite students and manage them.

Personal Contributions

During this project, I served as the Scrum Master and also contributed as a Developer. Our team included two external developers from abroad, and I guided them throughout the development process. My specific contributions included:

  • Collaborated with a colleague to define the application architecture, including the communication protocol.
  • Contributed to the web component tool for teachers, allowing them to manage quizzes, create new ones, and initiate interactive sessions.
  • And helped developing the interactive section within the Gynzy board, enabling teachers to start interactive sessions and invite students.

For more information (in Dutch) visit:
https://www.gynzy.com/nl-nl/blog/klassenquiz

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Gynzy Class Schedule

In order to support teachers with creating a creating an overview of the daily routine, the class schedule tool has been added to the board. With this tool the teacher is able to create a schedule that consists of activities that are easily recognisable by students due to the use of pictograms.

Features:

  1. Activities can easily be moved, shortened or lengthened using drag and drop.
  2. Both single and composite classes are supported.
  3. Text labels can be added to a scheduled activities.
  4. It’s possible to search for activities by name and tag.