Web Development: UI UX Upgrade
KnowQuest is the most advanced feedback platform out there.It has an Academic Feedback branch, and a Non-Academic Feedback branchBoth Branches need a User Interface Upgrade and that's where you come in!KnowQuest.net (academic feedback) needs a better UI, better UX, and an improved overall feel.KnowQuest.com (rate my coffee, rate my wine, rate my restaurant, etc.) needs an all-new UI/UX.Number of individual positions available: 1-5This project is for aspiring and current web developers that want to improve their skills in User Interface and User Experience.You will be managed by our team and lead web developer.The back end is PHP and Laravel, MySQL, etc., but the front end is HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (bootstrap)
Project Management / Business Development Project
We are looking to bring on students to be our learner-consultant in a project management role. We are a data startup focused on advanced consumer feedback. We're going into various industries and doing credibility checks, security checks, breakdowns feedback in different aspects of the business and so much more.We're looking for a project manager in business development to help us attract new businesses and clients.As a project manager we'll look to you to help us identify challenges and opportunities, analyze our current processes, and then come up with solutions and strategies to implement and help us attract new business.In this role you'll help with assessing and identifying needs/issues and provide actionable recommendations while performing result based tasks.Help us find the RIGHT strategic partners; businesses that believe in what we do, can benefit from the KnowQuest platform, and will help us garner attention, gain new users, and grow!
React JS Website Deployment (EC2/AWS/MongoDB - MERN)
Help our team of non IT Professionals deploy a new website built by students like yourself!The site is setup in EC2 AWS and uses React JS with MongoDB (MERN).We have a VPS already (Hostinger.com VPS4 package), but I think we need to stay with AWS.Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to walk us through how to deploy the site, deploy it with us, and create the necessary documentation to manage and maintain it!
Academic Feedback: Social Impact - a Consulting Project
This is a project designed for students who want to practice developing innovative, executable, value-added strategies.Academic feedback does not exist in any meaningful, large scale application, until now. Our platform (relaunching in January) will be the world's first and only place for students and professors to credibly and anonymously rate their academic experiences, resources, textbooks, etc.This has real meaningful financial impacts on stakeholders such as textbook publishers, educational content creators, schools, and tax payers. But we want to know the social impact of giving students and professors a voice!Our TOP goal with any Riipen project, is that students meet/exceed their learning objectives.
Online Platform Retooling: New Tools and Features
Number of Individual Positions available: 6KnowQuest.net is the world's first and only academic feedback platform.Our current platform uses PHP and MYSQL, as well as Laravel...and we need you to take it to the next level.We have an opportunity for 6 students to expand our markets, industries, and horizons, and we need your help in getting it done.We are shifting from academic feedback, to feedback in general, and adding more features and rating types to our platform.Our platform is called C.A.S.H.C stands for Credibility which is established prior to a user being able to rate.A stands for Anonymity, in that users want their ratings to be anonymous, and anonymous ratings are more honest...thus we aggregate all ratings...no comments!S stands for Security, in that users do not want their personal information collected, stored or sold. Our platform only uses school email addresses to establish credibility for academic feedback, but other feedback (non-academic) will not require a school email, and establishes credibility in another way (e.g. scan a receipt, scan a QR code, automatically after an online purchase, etc.)H stands for Homogeneity, in that our ratings are more than just "Overall" scores; our ratings include context, multiple rating factors, and standard for each product or industry. For example, textbook ratings require an ISBN number, the subject and level it was used in, the year and semester, and the cost to establish context...then the textbook is rated on its Effectiveness, Appropriateness, Visual Aids, Value, Overall, and whether the user will recommend the textbook for a similar subject&level combination (e.g. 1st year undergraduate accounting). This approach makes our ratings Comparable and homogeneous...making them more valuable and more informative.We want to build on the CASH platform and expand and improve our platform!Projects:- New User Interface- API- New Ratings Types (non-education such as Coffee, Wine, Restaurants, Food Delivery, etc.)- A basic app (perhaps using App Sheet?)- On-device verification
Professional Sales
KnowQuest.net is the world's first and only academic feedback platform.We have a new business model that is more value-added, more stakeholder-focused, and has the potential to take us to the next level.We are looking for bright, enthusiastic, professional, and driven communications, PR, and business development students to help us develop a meaningful relationship with schools.
Web Development: Learn Laravel and Complete a Project!
Number of individual positions available: 1-5This project is for aspiring and current web developers that are familiar with PHP, MYSQLYou will have the opportunity to Both learn Laravel with the help of our lead web developer, and complete your first project!The project is relatively simple: convert the current hard-coded text on KnowQuest.net, into an easily editable version that a site admin can change as needed.So not only do you get to complete a project that is meaningful to KnowQuest and a 'resume builder' for you, but you also learn Laravel!
Native App Development
KnowQuest.net and .com will soon launch their beta in ReactJS/MongoDB/NodeJS/HTML etc.The platform is the next evolutionary step in feedback.It is built from the ground up to deal with and eliminate the weaknesses of other rating platforms like Google Reviews, YELP, Feefo, Trust Pilot, etc.This means we check credibility prior to ratings being given. This means we anonymize users and aggregate ratings. This means we do not take, store, or sell personal user information! This means we break down ratings into standardized likert and binary scales to add depth and meaning to each rating (no comments to deal with and no singular 5-star ratings which lack information).Your role, is to start the planning and development process of the ReactNative version of KnowQuest! We do not plan to launch it until late 2024/early 2025 so the only pressure will be for students to meet/exceed learning objectives!
Standard Operating Procedures - Home Health Care
MyPanion.ca better matches Care Workers and Clients using factors like Language, Expertise, Experience, Education, & More!We treat Care Workers the way we want Our Family Members to be Treated; with Respect and Dignity. We foster an environment that encourages them to grow and thrive by rewarding them for great work.We are a start-up looking to launch this year with just a few Care Workers, while we eliminate waste and inefficiencies before we scale.Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to help our organization create Standard Operating Procedures for our team, our Care Workers, and our Area Managers.
Virtual Reality Infrastructure Project
An alternate highway/freeway route in Southern Ontario needs visualization using Virtual Reality to help stakeholders better understand the project, its implications, and 'look'. The alternate route is being proposed to better protect the farmland and fruitland in the Niagara Region and an integral part of the government's plan to ensure that traffic does not have a negative impact on that region.We need your students to use their ability to model, virtually, this new project proposal!
Art Project - Art Deco Designs
The Big Leaf is a boutique management consulting firm with a strong foundation of ethics.We are providing the Business Incubator, Spark IECI, of Niagara Falls Ontario with Coaching, Mentoring, and Advisory ServicesSee more information at: www.thebigleaf.com/sparkWe want your students to create for us some beautiful, striking, and memorable artwork to highlight the coming workshops, coaching sessions, and roundtables.The art style we are looking for can be found if you Google Image Search the following: Art Deco airline ads (or follow: https://www.google.com/search?q=Art+Deco+airline)
Sales! Help a start-up in a revolutionary new home-care business model
Sales! - Healthcare Industry [home care / care work]We are a new startup called MyPanion, as in Companion. MyPanion is a startup that aims to solve two major problems in the home-care sector of the healthcare industry: Matching (of care workers and clients), and Care Worker Treatment (i.e., they are underpaid, underappreciated, used and abused).We do this in several ways: we are building an app that will allow clients and care workers to be matched at a granular level, and with the level of granularity that the client needs. Additionally, we are incentivizing the Care Workers to work with us, stay with us, do a great job, and up-skill.We accomplish this by taking less, giving back more, and setting them up to succeed:1. Our fees start at 15% and max out at 30%, while typical agencies take as much as 60%!2. Care Workers that work 900 - 1800 hours a year (part to full time), earn back 15% - 25% of their fees (that they paid to us), in the form of either Benefits, Pension, Insurance, or contributions to Education.3. Better matching on the app means better likelihood that the Care Workers will enjoy their work, do a better job, and improve satisfaction, and safety.We have upwards of 10 people already contributing to this project, and we need your help!We have had many schools from University Canada West to Arizona State University and others work on this project; they looked at the market and helped us to identify an appropriate beachhead.We are working on the app, but in the meantime we want to start operations by March 21, which means we need to run the company 'on paper' (not through an app), including Sales and Marketing. The revenue generated thereafter will help fund growth and app development. The app is not complex and should be easy to complete in a reasonable amount of time, but still requires cash.Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to help us with SALES LEADS>HOW?Sales Leads perhaps?It is in our best interest, to start with some one-on-one sales (which we can accomplish on our own), but add some more value-added clientele, such as a long term care home, a retirement residence, etc., in which there are many clients and opportunities in one place...in which there is perhaps a director of care or similar executive who manages one or more facilities, and is frustrated with his or her current 'agency'...TorontoGTAGolden HorseshoeSouthern OntarioWe are open to ideas. We want to follow demand.NOTE:1. It is in our best interest to go after contracts that do not require complex medical needs and access to medical history (for now)2. It is in our best interest to go after contracts that are of higher value (per hour) such as Nursing, Backup Nursing, Therapies, etc.3. It is in our best interest to go after contracts that allow us to solve a problem that is representative of the industry as a whole
Mobile App: UI/UX Development
BackgroundPanion - a Big Leaf project that is in development: It consists of an App-based platform (android/iOS) that matches Care Workers with their Clients.Nurses, PSWs, physical therapists, phlebotomists, companions, etc. create are matched with clients based on key factors, which are customizable for each party.Care Workers create online profiles with Key Factors like Education, Experience, Language(s), Specialties, Certifications, Vaccines, Geographical and Temporal Availability, etc. Clients and their families or caregivers fill out a profile with requirements such as times and days, expertise, experience, language, education, vaccinations, etc. The system matches Client to Care Worker, or manual matches can be made by users, and Panion takes only 15% of revenues per transaction; one-half of what many agencies take.What makes Panion different?We are focused on Care. Quality Care is something that is a result of a concerted and collaborative effort. We know that Care Workers are often underpaid, underappreciated, mismatched with clients, and required to travel great distances without remuneration. We also know that Care Workers almost never have access to Benefits, Insurance, and Pensions from the agencies to looking which they dedicate their life.Panion offers Care Workers benefits, insurance, and pension plans, takes less revenue, and makes better matches. Panion also lets users Rate each interaction for both parties, via our sister company KnowQuest (using KnowQuest's API).How can you help?We need your help in developing, improving, and optimizing our Panion platform! From design to databasing, security to deployment, this is a new endeavour and you can make a real meaningful impact on the project, the company, and the many many caring people in the industry that we will be able to give better lives and opportunities to!What is Required / Goals:
Better Stakeholder Management / Relationships
Work with our team at KnowQuest to create the ideal employee / union member feedback mechanism.KnowQuest is an evolutionary step in feedback. We are launching our beta this Fall, and want to add more categories to our list of feedback. Currently, we have Academic (higher education) Feedback -the only one in the world!, Movies, TV Shows, Video Games, and Veteran's Affairs / Political Policy in the queue for Fall's Beta.We want to add employee / union member feedback as well.KnowQuest is a different feedback platform because it was built from the ground up to include the very features that reviewers asked for (after 3 years of research into online feedback).Credibility Checks - are you an employee? did you buy the product? did you buy the service?Anonymity - No names, no user IDs, no way to see individual feedback - all ratings aggregatedSecurity - No personal information is every sold, stored, or collectedHomogeneity - We break down ratings into standardized components to better empower reviewers to accurately convey their experience(s) - no more comments and singular 5-star overall ratings...now it is comparable, detailed, and customizable
PR and Communication Internship
KnowQuest.net is the world's first and only academic feedback platform.We have a new business model that is more value-added, more stakeholder-focused, and has the potential to take us to the next level.We are looking for bright, enthusiastic, professional, and driven communications, PR, and business development students to help us develop a meaningful relationship with schools.
Consulting - Home Care in the Digital Age
ProjectWe need your students to act as Consultants to our start-up project: MyPanion (or Panion). MyPanion aims to provide better home care through better matching and better treatment of Care Workers.RequiredWe have spent a considerable amount of time with students from various Universities and Colleges across Canada and the United States to gather meaningful information and analyze the home care sector of the health care industry, to better understand our ideal value proposition, beachhead, and differentiation factors.However, those analyses and that information is disparate, and we now need you to perform a meta-analysis to then craft a Final Recommendations as our consultants!Background Information:Panion - a www.TheBigLeaf.com project that is in development: It consists of an App-based platform (android/iOS) that matches Care Workers with their Clients.Nurses, PSWs, physical therapists, phlebotomists, companions, etc. create are matched with clients based on key factors, which are customizable for each party.Care Workers create online profiles with Key Factors like Education, Experience, Language(s), Specialties, Certifications, Vaccines, Geographical and Temporal Availability, etc. Clients and their families or caregivers fill out a profile with requirements such as times and days, expertise, experience, language, education, vaccinations, etc. The system matches Client to Care Worker, or manual matches can be made by users, and Panion takes only 15% of revenues per transaction; one-half of what many agencies take.What makes Panion different?We are focused on Care. Quality Care is something that is a result of a concerted and collaborative effort. We know that Care Workers are often underpaid, underappreciated, mismatched with clients, and required to travel great distances without remuneration. We also know that Care Workers almost never have access to Benefits, Insurance, and Pensions from the agencies to looking which they dedicate their life.Panion offers Care Workers benefits, insurance, and pension plans, takes less revenue, and makes better matches. Panion also lets users Rate each interaction for both parties, via our sister company KnowQuest (using KnowQuest's API).
Virtual Internship - Business Development
KnowQuest.net has a new business model that is more value-added, easier to work with, and shares in our profits with schools!We are looking for eager, enthusiastic, professional, capable, and driven interns to develop meaningful relationships with School administrations, Student Unions, and Student Associations.The Goal: A school, or student union/association becoming our partner.A Partner: A partner is a school or student union/association that helps us by acquiring students and professors as regular Raters of Education on the KnowQuest.net platform.The Deal: We profit share 50/50 with partners, minus any associated business development expenses.The Value: Ratings are aggregated by school, are fully anonymous, and ready to be sold as Market Research data to publishers and online content creators. We create a custom dashboard for publishers and online content creators to get the most value out of the aggregated ratings. They pay for access to their own products' ratings, and have the option to pay more for access to their competitors' ratings! In the long run, they can use the data to improve textbooks and online resources!Business Development Costs: If you should be able to successfully sign up a school, student union/association, and they in turn help us acquire either 25% of the enrolled students and professors as users, or acquire 10,000 users, then you as the business development expert earn 5% of all sales from the data from your school!
Marketing - Home Health Care Start-Up in Canada
MyPanion is a home health care start-up in Ontario Canada and it is planning on launching in March of this year.What makes MyPanion different is that we will offer Better Care through Better Matching and Better Treatment of Care Workers.We are building an App to help our new and innovative company, but in the meantime we will operate traditionally until the app is built.We need your help in Marketing, Campaign Development, Branding, and Messaging.Your Mission, Should you choose to accept it, is to create for MyPanion (along with the help of the many people involved), Branding Guidelines including (but not limited to): Logo(s), Colour Recipes, Messaging, Tone, Mission Vision Value (along with our executive team), our Story, Our Unique Value Proposition, etc. We also need you to create at least one (1) marketing campaign aimed at Both Care Workers and their Clients (be they private residents, long term care home residents and/or their directors, retirement home residents and their directors, hospital residents and their directors, etc.We need your help to get better care to the people who need it most.
Online Platform Retooling
KnowQuest.net is the world's first and only academic feedback platform.Our current platform uses PHP and MYSQL, as well as Laravel...and we need you to take it to the next level.We have an opportunity to expand our markets, industries, and horizons, and we need your help in getting it done.We are shifting from academic feedback, to feedback in general, and adding more features and rating types to our platform.Our platform is called C.A.S.H.C stands for Credibility which is established prior to a user being able to rate.A stands for Anonymity, in that users want their ratings to be anonymous, and anonymous ratings are more honest...thus we aggregate all ratings...no comments!S stands for Security, in that users do not want their personal information collected, stored or sold. Our platform only uses school email addresses to establish credibility for academic feedback, but other feedback (non-academic) will not require a school email, and establishes credibility in another way (e.g. scan a receipt, scan a QR code, automatically after an online purchase, etc.)H stands for Homogeneity, in that our ratings are more than just "Overall" scores; our ratings include context, multiple rating factors, and standard for each product or industry. For example, textbook ratings require an ISBN number, the subject and level it was used in, the year and semester, and the cost to establish context...then the textbook is rated on its Effectiveness, Appropriateness, Visual Aids, Value, Overall, and whether the user will recommend the textbook for a similar subject&level combination (e.g. 1st year undergraduate accounting). This approach makes our ratings Comparable and homogeneous...making them more valuable and more informative.We want to build on the CASH platform and expand and improve our platform!
Ethical Home Healthcare DBA Consulting Opportunity
MyPanion will be the next evolution in home healthcare: Ethical! It's motto is: Better Access to Better CareHow can you help? Build a foundation of Knowledge in home healthcare, ethical home healthcare (including best practices), and help our startup in one of the following two ways (we can accept up to two DBA students - one for each):1. Web Development of our simple platform. Work alongside Arizona State University and Humber College students who have already started the platform's development (they only contribute 1 semester), and take the platform to the next level. (built w React)2. Help our executive team as a consultant in determining the best start-up launch strategy: Acquisition or Organic Growth...including opportunity spotting, industry/market analysis, validation, and business planning.
UI UX Development
We have two projects that need a UI/UX Intern.1: KnowQuest - Advanced Feedback Platform for academia (the only academic feedback platform in the world!), and Movies/TV/Video Games (superior to IMDB/IGN/Netflix ratings and more informative!).2: MyPanion - Ethical Home Healthcare.Both platforms are using React.Both platforms are being developed by Arizona State University's and Humber College's students in the January-April semester, but we want them to focus more on the back end. We want you to focus on the front end, so you can all shine!Develop or improve the wireframe, graphics, interface, user experience, and imagery!
Mobile Application
KnowQuest.net is the world's first and only academic feedback platform.As such, we need your help to create a mobile app (or web-app).Our current platform uses PHP and MYSQL, as well as Laravel...and we need you to take it to the next level, the mobile level!
Corporate Social Responsibility Assessment 2021
KnowQuest.net is the world's first and only academic feedback platform.Our platform is free to use by students and professors in higher education!A major part of our value proposition, is our high-social value.As such, we need your help in better determining what that social value is, to whom, and to what degree.
Advanced Marketing Management
KnowQuest.net, the world's first and only academic feedback platform, was born at Ryerson University, started by a Ryerson double-graduate (BComm and MScM), and now we need your help!This project will explore how to market our free services to schools, based on our new business model.Our new business model focuses on profit sharing with schools or their student union/association!We need your help to make this campaign a success
Software Development Project
KnowQuest.net isn't just the world's first and only academic feedback platform, we are expanding to include non-education ratings such as:Rate my CoffeeRate my WineRate a RestaurantRate a ServiceRate a ProductWe need bright, enthusiastic, technically savvy students to help us with a major component of our expansion plan: the Credibility CheckCredibility Check: for academic (or education) ratings, credibility is established on our site via school email. However, for non education ratings, such as Rate my Coffee, we need a new credibility check mechanism to be developed and installed. Credibility checks for non-education ratings can include scanning receipts, scanning custom QR codes, etc.Our site uses PHPO and MySQL as well as Laravel
Website Copy
KnowQuest.net is the world's first and only academic feedback platform.We have a new business model that is more value-added, more stakeholder-focused, and has the potential to take us to the next level.We are looking for bright, enthusiastic, professional, and driven communications, PR, and business development students to help us update our website's copy!
Marketing Campaign Development
The Big Leaf needs YOUR help!We need an innovative, powerful, memorable, meaningful, and inspiring marketing campaign to get our name out there, create a buzz, and attract new clients that are willing to pay the highest rates for our services.The project is open to as many teams as are willing to participate.The theme, message, voice, and tone are open to interpretation but will require approval.The medium is whatever your team chooses (e.g. LinkedIn, Google Ads, Print Ads, Video(s), Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, etc.)The rest is up to you!
Web / App Development (React)
Students have two options:1. Build on the work completed by Humber College students on the KnowQuest.net React-based webapp to complete the project. KnowQuest is the world's first Academic Feedback platform, and one of the most advanced feedback platforms in general. KnowQuest combines Credibility of users with Anonymity of ratings and Security (no personal information collected or sold) and Homogeneity (ratings are layered, not just 5 stars - thus, they are highly informative, powerful, and easily comparable).2. MyPanion.com - Ethical Home Healthcare startup. MyPanion is bringing dignity and respect back to the home healthcare industry. By charging the customer a little less, and paying care workers much more, we ensure higher quality, better value, and better matches. Your job will be to create the MyPanion App. The App is a glorified scheduler with a GPS function built it.More details about the functionality of both options are available.
The Big Leaf's Internship Program
This is an internship program that we customize to meet the needs of your students, and to ensure that they meet their learning objectives.The Big Leaf is a management consulting firm and we are working on more than 5 major projects, any of which your students can contribute to.Projects and internship opportunities include:- Academic Feedback Platform [KnowQuest.net]: Web Development (PHP/Laravel, HTML/CSS/Bootstrap), Business Development (Partnership Program), Business Development (Academic Ambassadorship Program), Management/Project Management (Academic Ambassadorship Program), Marketing (Graphic Design, Campaign Creation, Content Creation, Copy-writing)- Advanced Business Feedback Platform [KnowQuest.com]: Web Development (PHP/Laravel, HTML/CSS/Bootstrap), Business Development (Partnerships, Sales, Presentations, etc.), Marketing (Graphic Design, Campaign Creation, Content Creation, Copy-writing, Branding)- Luxury Consulting [The Big Leaf]: Program Development (Seminar in Padova Italy in May 2022), Marketing (Graphic Design, Content Creation), Business Development (Partnerships, Collaboration, Coopetition, Develop Infrastructure with Incubators/Accelerators in North America)- Care Worker Matching [Panion / MyPanion]: App Development (Flutter), Marketing (Graphic Design, Content Creation, Copy-writing, Branding, PPT Crafting), Financing (Advanced Modelling), Business Development (Partnerships, Sales/Leads, New Opportunity Spotting), Business Planning (Research, Analyses, Business Plan Crafting, Editing)- Management Consulting [The Big Leaf]: Many Areas (see our Associate's Program!)
Ice Cream Market Research!
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to help our client, a start-up ice cream producer in the Eastern Townships of Quebec with opportunity spotting, market research, and strategy development (at the market or operations levels).Her company is called Humblehaus and she produces some of the best tasting ice cream this side of the English Channel! Now it is time to help her grow and reach the audience that she deserves...or that deserve her ice cream!