During the beginning of the pandemic where I worked at Mathnasium, a math learning center, transitioned half online and half in person. I knew that this sudden transition would contribute a lot of stress and extra work in our workplace. So, I took it the initiative myself to automate a very tedious task to save tons of time!
Give access to all Mathnasium employees each student's whiteboard.
Everytime we wanted to work online with a student we had to load up their whiteboard (worksheet). Each whiteboard contains unique data about who can access it. Whiteboards are constantly created, which means there must be continuing process that grants access to these whiteboards.
RESTRICTION: Only one Mathnasium employee can be given access to one whiteboard at a time (there was no 'add all' button). Impacts: This was a massive time waster! Someone would have to spend hours at a time everyday granting access to each student's whiteboard!
Utilizing the requests module from python I can analyze the HTTP requests from https://conexed.com/ and automate this process.
Version 1.0.0
Hello fellow Mathnasium whiteboard adder,
I heard that you have been using so much time... maybe too much time adding new instructors to whiteboards. Yeah I get it. I know it is very tedious. Only if there was a way you could get a robot to do it for you...
OH WAIT! There is!
What do I do? I will add all instructors to every whiteboard.
I just ask one thing of you.
Please download the latest version of python!
Run the 'libraries.bat' file. This will install the correct commands used for the program.
Update the config file with the correct information!
Then sit back relax and relax!
Enjoy!
And... yes this program was tested and successfully put to use in the workplace.